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The security at Ben Gurion does a cursory "I'm looking at your bags" check but they mostly just profile people by asking them questions and looking at their responses. There's something like 4 or 5 points of contact with a security team member where they just ask questions. Once they suspect someone due to how they've reacted or answered poorly, then they divert people away that section of the airport and continue business as normal. They also have a curb-to-airplane average time of something like 25 minutes.
Who the hell expected zero crashes? Please, raise your hand and explain why you think any system could be released that drives a car would ever be able to do so at a rate of 100%?
I don't think many people would write code like that by hand, but it's not completely insane given the requirements

Typically if you were programming for the 6502 back in the day, you would build up a rather large macro library to make things simpler.
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How does this affect Seagate's downwards trending quality?

I got this kind of impression from Backblaze durability statistics, personal experiences have also been bad lately.

I do remember time when Seagate meant quality, but that ended when they bought Maxtor.
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Feet aren't on the peddles. Which is slight more dangerous than feet on the peddles. Kinda like hands on the wheel is less dangerous than hands off the wheel (at least until automation becomes better at driving than humans).
Tumblr is another blog/social hybrid, but in your particular case you're subject to network effect (or the lack thereof) in your community of interest. Also, Tumblr is similarly faltering in engagement and owned by a corporate parent that is trying to leverage it as part of a wider strategy to turn its fortunes around.
I've see starting salaries for the big tech companies that recruit from the name brand schools. It's about a wash or even negative once you consider the cost of living on the west cost and the cost of the school compared to going to a well known in state college and finding a job in a lower cost of living tech hub.
This isn't too big of a cost if you're looking to actually publish on the platform, but it is a pretty big fixed cost if you're just looking to goof around on the platform.

Maybe someone can clarify if this is the starting cost. From my reading, at minimum you need one of the CTR devices or (EDIT)IS-SNAKE devices to do anything.

Would have loved if I could just buy one of the dev-only Pandas 3DSs for $200 even if it meant not being allowed to use carts (since I didn't have a writer).

Given how dirt-cheap DS flash carts are, us hobbyists are probably better sticking to that for now...
Was just about to come on here and post this. I've got 5 jumps out of the Perris jet (while it was still flying).

Interestingly, all the DB Cooper stuff was one reason Perris shut it down. It cost them an inordinate amount of money to get through the red tape to be able to allow sport skydiving out of it (courtesy of the 'Cooper Lock' modifications), that once the engines came due for maintenance, they opted not to throw more money down the drain. It was a sad, sad day for the skydiving world.
Thanks for the shout out, But I'm the nextgen author If anyone has any questions, comments, bugs, whatever. The project was started because of frustrations with AFL and trinity. The "novel" feature at this point is using dtrace for instrumentation instead of a compiler plugin like AFL. This allows for instrumenting closed sourced applications without using qemu and non C/C++ applications. I have more planned for the future but I'm trying finish the core of nextgen, mainly the logging, interprocess communication, and concurrency model.
> We "fire and forget" many type of systems with no possibility of human intervention--at least not in a timely manner

Practically speaking, I agree with what you're saying. For autonomous systems as we think of them today, humans can set them and walk away.

Philosophically, if I throw a ball into space, is its continued movement autonomous? Kicking off a computer program is just a complex ball. We don't have true randomness in computers.

> 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.

I 100% agree with this. I think that's a fundamental flaw in Tesla's current plan to achieve autonomous vehicles. It's also a huge liability risk, for which they are not insured, to be dishing out 15,000 systems like this every month. At least the other consumer-available self-driving car systems require hands on the wheel. Tesla doesn't even seem to do that.
I imagine it's because Facebook has a huge amount of existing penetration and active usage with Facebook Messenger which allows them to have a separate app. They already have the stickiness with the platform.

I imagine, once live streaming gets a sufficient enough user base, it'll have its own application experience.
Once again Tesla have made the discussion about the driver. They have put an auto-control system out in the wild that steers the car into hard obstacles at high speed. Beeps to warn the driver at some stage in the preceding interval do not make this control systems failure any more acceptable. It still misjudged situation as acceptable to continue and it still drove into obstacles. Those are significant failures and a blanket statement of responsibility going to the driver isn't going to cut it.
So for 6% of the population, joining the mile high club is just called "sex".
You're far less likely to suddenly encounter unexpected conditions when flying though; the sky has a tendency to be nothing but air, while the ground has a tendency to be filled with things you have to avoid, many of which are moving.
I said all luggage. Isn't carry-on luggage?
You can always say "501c3 (or the equivalent in the country where you are located)." Most jurisdictions have an official tax designation for charitable/non-profit organizations (Salesforce has a list of them at http://www.salesforce.org/nonprofit/power-of-us/eligibility-...), so you don't have to restrict the program to US-based organizations.

I know what you mean about these programs being good for the SaaS. If it weren't for Salesforce's pro-bono license program, I never would have used it, programmed against it, or advocated adopting it at work.
Do we have sentiment analysis techniques that actually work now? Last I checked they weren't so great.
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I would argue that the time frames involved are very dissimilar. In a Tesla, you need to be able to take complete control in under a second if the system fails. The closest I can think of in a plane is during an assisted landing, which is a relatively brief period where the pilot is fully engaged anyway.
The quote made by a poster referencing another party's paper on Searle about being not natural, an artifact of the observer, raises some cautions to me even if I get the drift.

I think man is part of nature, is nature, and therefore arguments couched from the 'supernatural' perspective are faulty from the get go.

Take the hexagonal pattern of honeycombs. Nobody really knows yet how bees actually pull it off. There are hypotheses about the pheromone or chemical trail fading, and circle-walking they carry out with the hexagaonal shape being an emergent property. The hexagonal shape also happens to be one of the 'Close Packing' methods, HCP, or Hexagonal Close Packing.

I am re-reading Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe by Andrew Ilachinski published in 2001. I am on the chapter about possibly defining a new physics, "Information Physics", section 12.4 to be exact. Paraphrasing a bit, the term 'primordial information', or the notion that information exists independently of the semantics used to ascribe meaning to it. That "all observables found in nature are essentially 'data structures' that the universe uses to encode information with."

It goes on to remark that all computations are inherently physical processes (slide rule, electrons in computers) and that information is possibly more than just a concept, but one of the fundamental units woven into the very fabric of the universe.

I have become less of a reductionist as I get older, and I have been following Complexity Science since the 1980s/90s. I am starting to lean towards 'information' as not being just a concept, but something real and physical no matter how it is encoded or contained. I guess from a superficial point this puts me at odds with Searle, or the indirect quote of his works.

I'll have to read Searle; I've only learned of him via second-hand quotes, and his counters with Daniel Dennett.
I disagree, as long as the experience is right.

Nintendo have been hesitant because they don't want to dilute and diminish their IP, but if the experience is nailed (PoGo is close enough to nailing it, and should only get better) then the IP should only be bolstered by the mobile version.

On the flipside, a traditional Mario / DK / whatever title on mobile for example would eat away at their console market, which is what they're aiming to avoid.
I actually worked out the math on this--Tesla is lying with statistics when they made this comment they did about 1 in 130 million miles.

Here's what I did:

1 in 90 million rate: 1.1 x 10^8
Probability of No accident in one mile: 1 - 1.1 x 108 = ~9.9999999 x 10^8
Probability of No accident and driving 130 million miles: (9.99999999 x 10 ^ 8) ^ 130e6 = 0.24
Probability AT LEAST ONE ACCIDENT in 130 million miles = 1 - 0.24 = 0.76

If you do the same for a rate of 1 in 130 miles you get: 0.63.

So the true rate could really be worse than 1 in 90 million miles and they just got lucky that no incident prevented itself, which would make it more dangerous than a regular car.
Yeah, because it's also co-produced by Apple.
> Microsoft being a case in point - "developers, developers, developers" was the cheerleading chant from Steve Ballmer, unless of course the developers wanted to code for Xbox. They've opened it now I believe but again - extremely late in the game.

For the original XBox sure but the XBox 360 came with XNA at almost the start of the XBox 360. For free I downloaded the SDK, connected to my store bought XBox 360 and deployed code directly to it. It was amazing.

Granted they eventually axed XNA and left a hole partially filled in other ways afterwards but initially the XBox 360 was an amazing thing of beauty as far as openness. In fact I was in school and put in charge of making an XNA game with the cooperation of another University. It failed miserably but it was an awesome experience.
I've seen people moving to different platforms. There seems to be always a platform replacing another platform. I have yet to see this with Facebook. It seems like the new Google Hangouts and their new messaging app (allo?) might be in the radar. But, at this point is it even possible to have a facebook replacement withing the next 3 years?
Great article. Half way through I was thinking "it's not me you have to convince", but then it gave some ammunition to help do the convincing.
Not really.

A major reason for the early game industry crash was that the "openness" led to a incredible amount of "shovelware" games that overloaded consumers with bad choices.

In fact the NES being closed in a very heavy handed manner (for example you had limit of games per year per publisher!) was seen as a good thing that helped rebuild the industry.

Now we are seeing this with mobile, where something like only 1% of the products have decent profits, or steam, that is slowly getting filled with crappy games that are outpacing their "discovery" features and got nicknamed "indiepocalipse" and has as one of its effects make people start to prefer AAA games again, due to lower budget games now being perceived as "most of the times crap, retro hipster pretentious, or both"
10 years ago our studio (indie in pre-indie times) tried to purchase the NDS dev kit and it costs something like 50k USD (if I still remember it correctly) and tons of due diligence for a chance to play with it as having game actually published involved another process.
Fair enough. I'm not even Asian.
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I feel like this is the fate of all the social networks whose main purpose is to feed into people's vanity. Surely 20 year companies can't be built off of people's desire to show off how much better their lives are to ours?
My point is police die at the hands of the public more often than the public dies at the hands of the police.
> The significant aspect is that the actual
message is one selected from a set of possible messages.

this is an amazing opener

does anyone know of the history of simultaneous possibility theory?
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>> I don't see Twitter as a social network (although many do, that's okay). I see it as a broadcast medium, a soapbox, a blogging platform.

A few years back Peter Kafka wrote an article [1] about how joe/joan-shmoe twitter user will probably never have their tweets read by anybody at all. It was astonishingly small number of folks who broke 500 followers (writing 3/4 years ago)

ex. “The median Twitter account has a single follower. Among the much smaller subset of accounts that have posted in the last 30 days, the median account has just 61 followers.”

It is from a few years ago, maybe things have changed but if that's the experience of the average person why invest time in it?

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I thought the entire autopilot could be replaced with an over-the-air software update?
Do you have any evidence at all that any accidents have been caused by misinterpreting the functions name? Do you think if it were called something different these accident wouldn't have happened? I see little reason seriously to believe that.
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Sorry. I'd thought you misunderstood due to this part, which appeared to be refuting a claim nobody made:

> If they didn't x-ray carry-on, ask yourself this, why didn't the hijackers just bring AK-47's in their briefcases.
> Tesla allows minutes of hands-off time; one customer reports driving 50 miles without touching the wheel.

How are these numbers compatible with each other? Was the car going at >1000 miles per hour?
Really? Bringing guesses to a fact game. We can do better.
Also going to play devil's advocate here. Sure the car only goes a few hundred metres, but a slight knock of the wheel as they pass out or a small corner in the road could easily send said car into a crowded cafe.

What is the chance that a Tesla car fails to continue safely and eventually pull over after the driver carks it? 0.1%? 1%? I doubt anywhere near 99% of strokes while driving end with the car just slowing down for a hundred metres and stopping safely in the middle of the road. I'd be surprised if the majority do. Not that it's a common occurance, but if I picture a typical stroke while driving alone, I'm picturing a car veering slowly off the road and hitting something at maybe 50-75% of the speed it was originally travelling.

Tesla's self-driving would have to be abysmally bad to not beat that, and given we're only discussing 3 accidents so far, I don't believe that to be the case.
>untrained consumers

Licensed drivers. Drivers who have a license that indicates that they will take responsibility for the actions of any vehicle they control and understand how to operate any features which may put themselves or others at risk.
> less than 10% of the world would be of american and European decent.

> 50% would be Asian and 40% would be African.

World population has followed these proportions for most of recorded history.

The true aberration is that the last few hundred years, the West was much richer on a per capita basis than the rest of the world (due to industrialization and colonialism). If India and China manage to continue their growth, then we'll finally see this normalize.
I agree; I think it's despicable that Tesla is acting in such a defensive manner.

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"No force was detected on the steering wheel for over two minutes after autosteer was engaged," said Tesla, which added that it can detect even a very small amount of force, such as one hand resting on the wheel.

"As road conditions became increasingly uncertain, the vehicle again alerted the driver to put his hands on the wheel," said Tesla. "He did not do so and shortly thereafter the vehicle collided with a post on the edge of the roadway."
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Bruh-slow the car down then. If you're storing information that points to the fact that that the driver is not paying attention, and you're not doing anything about it, that's on you 100%.

We are in the midst of a transition period between autonomous and semi-autonomous cars, and blaming the driver for the fact that the car, in auto-steer mode, steered into obstacles, is counter-productive in the long term. You need to make auto-steer not work under these conditions. The driver will quickly figure out the limits of your system as their car decelerates with an annoying beeping sound.
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I'll be graduating from undergrad this upcoming fall and have been very fortunate to receive offers at very comparable companies in both NYC or SF. I've lived in both during summer internships, but am still really torn on which to choose.

SF has great weather, outdoor opportunities, and I imagine it would be a fantastic place to establish a professional network as I start my career. On the other hand finding housing is terrible and it can feel homogenous (so much tech, everywhere).

NYC has great public transportation and is a much more diverse city (in all ways). On the other hand weather is pretty crappy (I'm originally from the Northeast) and tech is a much smaller scene there.

For those of you who chose on over the other or who made the move from one to another, why did you? Any thoughts/input would be helpful!
I think all is equal. Yes, you learn calculus in high school now, but we also have Geometric Algebra coming back since the 80s, which allows for succinct symbolic expression of geometrical calculations. This and the field of computation, which for the mathematician is like the telescope was for the astronomers of old.

I think the room for discovery, great discoveries, is still within reach as before. New tools, new concepts, and new challenges. I am still amazed at what could be hand calc'ed or graphed by some of these incredible mathematicians in the past. Amazing.

The fact that we have institutions and foundations like the Santa Fe Institute and The Long Now among many others, show the big questions are still being tackled, but of course, many of us while away in the trenches of technology, and its hard to see what the brightest are up to sometimes.
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It's not like your foot is on the brake anyway - it's on the gas.

So keep your foot "active" and ready for use, even with cruise control.

Personally I lightly rest it on the gas. (Not hard enough to actually do anything, but in the right position to react to things.)
I am exactly there in terms of MVP and team. We had an AWS connoisseur who left just after I joined. Tiny micro nano services all the way except his know-how didn't rubb off that well with the rest if the team which is new to the web dev altogether. That's one thing. The other being the sea of reinvented lock-in technology that AWS is. While support is quick to reply, you will face many "huh?" moments that have little to do with arguments and more to so with unapologetic opinion, especially API gateway and its integration with Lambda.
It's for reasons like the above that we're experimenting now with a more mono architecture, replacing API gateway with Beanstalk for now, nginx later, but still run Lambdas in the background.
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The Dallas police keep emphasizing it is the first time they used a robot to kill someone in order to avoid talking about the elephant in the room. I accept that it may be the first time they used a robot as a delivery vehicle of the C4 (highly explosive bomb material). I do not appreciate, however, them not admitting to the previous bombing of the organization known as "Move", here in Philadelphia. They dropped the C4 bomb from the air. Dallas and Philly would make it two times, that I know about. I suspect that before they allow that area where they killed that black man in Dallas to be seen by the public , they will have all kinds of construction crews in to clean up the destruction for the cover-up.
I suspect the news media and law enforcement agencies and the like are complaicent in the cover-up, possibly for
peace sake. I don't feel peace can be accomplished with half truths, though. I do not know of C4 even being used on the terrorists in the United States! A robot, a helicopter...no matter how it was delivered, C4 was only used 2 times and it was used on black men, black women, and black children. Here in Philadelphia you could smell the houses burning for miles.
I really do appreciate ethical police. I mourn the loss of all innocent parties. I hope everyone makes it home to their loved ones. However, I hope we can soon be done with this David Brown show. He is not special. I don't think anyone who could authorize a kill by the use of C4, outside of a war zone, no matter how it is delivered, is not special at all... or brave;
(Nor was the shooter special or brave.) Speaking of "poor poor" David Brown, I will say this about any job that deals with the public, everybody is not suited for every job. If some police feel the job they signed up for puts too many demands on them within the community they serve for a mere 44,000 or so a year, perhaps that is not the fit for that person and they should quit as soon as possible. Many other people have left better jobs for less.
Yeah, Tesla make sure that OTA is applied in every car.
> The stock market gives 10-11% returns on an annual basis.

Before 2000, maybe. Not so much since, especially if you took the two rides all the way down.
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Wouldn't the lack of earth gravity mean that the fluid wouldn't necessarily be resting in the usual place at the point of the lumbar entry point for the test? That would mean the results would be skewed surely, or at least un-reliable.
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The State University systems also got defunded in a major way all across the country. I took the less expensive in-state option before the latest rounds of cuts and still ended up with $20K or so. If I had went today, there's a chance it would have been closer to $30K or more, and it hasn't been that long.

And how can we know what will be needed 5-10 years in the future? Granted, there are some that are long-shots for ever being worth borrowing for, but even professional degrees like Law have taken a major downturn that no one predicted.