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Cars changed the world. There's not really any going back from that. It works in places where the urban population is over 90% (like Japan) but not when urban population is substantially lower (like the US). How would the rural population get to the bus/train station? My grandma's house is half an hour by car to the nearest freeway, how long would she have to walk to get to public transport?

Public transport only works inside of cities, and there's a lot of infrastructure already built to support sprawling metropolitan areas where everyone has 1/4 acre of land surrounding their detached home. There's not a lot of push to tear all that up and forcibly relocate the residents to inner-city apartments.

You know the benefit of electric, self-driving cars, though? An intelligent car isn't going to run you over on your bike. Be happy about that.
Sensible Soccer / Kick Off 2 is still a winning style. One touch passing and kick it in front of you and run like mad and shoot as soon as you can. Works in real life as well.
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Not sure why you're getting down-voted. I think people are confusing "fun comes first" with winning not mattering at all.

For young kids, the focus should be on fun (otherwise they won't play) and skills development (fundamentals). Of course you try to win the game, but the idea is that you don't try to win at all cost, especially at the expense of those other two things.

The strategy you would employ with a team of kids to win as many games as possible is very different from the one you would use to develop them the most as good future players.
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I think a formatter is really best. Linters know what's wrong, the obvious next step is to just fix it. I'm not interested in thinking about this stuff anymore, just fix it so I can move on.
Upvoted! Im not sure the battery pack would allow General Lee style antics, so I guess a model S cant be used for a Dukes of Hazzard Redux...
Yeah and so what?!

Good on you for being risk averse.
Bad for all of us if you were in charge.

Risk will always be a factor when trying to push the envelope and bring new tech to life.

It's easy to put down most ideas on the basis of some risk - cars, rockets, medicine...

You have to build something and then you will discover how to improve on that eventually.
It'll probably be called the Tesla Autonomous Ridesharing Network, though. TARN.
I'm very intrigued by this console. I switched to Steam after the PS3 and thought I'd never get a TV based console again.

I really love the slide-in controllers.

A few things I hope for would be:

* Open specs for the slide-in controllers so that third parties can satisfy various niches (like the fighting game community)

* A standard USB-C or micro-USB charging port so that people can use their existing power banks/chargers

* A well implemented eStore (with purchases that aren't bound to a single device) with a huge back catalog of games from their older consoles

* Compatibility with Nintendo's older wireless controllers
I second this paper. It's an easy read, even with its math. And more importantly, it's extremely intuitive: for me, it answered the question of if Nigerian scammers are already successful with obviously fake emails, why don't they just invest a little more effort into making the emails sound less outrageously fake?

The general answer: If the scam emails were more sophisticated, they would attract the attention of smarter, more connected folks. These folks would still end up bailing out, but now the scammer is out the time they spent furthering the scam.

But with a shitty, obviously scammy letter, you are only going to trick an extremely few recipients, but you have a much greater chance that they will actually send money.

The wrinkle that email adds to the scam is that only with email do we have a medium in which a 1 out of 100,000 response rate can still be profitable. Furthermore, there are no gatekeepers between email sender and recipient. You couldn't easily pull a Nigerian scam by spamming Facebook users' walls, because even the most gullible of those users are likely to have a friend who will see and report the scam.
Yeah Nintendo seem to be doing pretty well I'd say. I don't know how they compare to Sony or Microsoft, but I have no doubt that Nintendo will keep producing video game consoles well into the future. (And I think Sony will as well. Probably Microsoft too.)
I don't like the idea of "sharing" upholstered seats with other people. I'm very neat and tidy, and other people aren't. Other people are going to eat their chips and junk in the car and get crumbs everywhere...
train networks and subways are significantly more expensive to build, operate and maintain, even electrified ones. Roads + autonomous electric cars are hard to beat in terms of efficiency, utility and ease of operation.
Anecdotally, my personal network and I have found the reluctance to direct hire into senior dev jobs the same across the country in RTP, NC. I'm not sure it is really related to proprietary tech here, but rather reflects uneasiness in hiring orgs to trust their hiring process to actually identify senior-level/capable devs.

Hiring groups are just much happier to hire at lower levels and promote up to retain better devs.
It's not a matter of whether there is software or not. If it were you'd be going back to the 80s to find anything before fuel injection and third party chips. Now we can't modify playstations etc - because of IP laws not software.

It's an issue of patent, copyright and rent seeking. We are so far down that rabbit hole globally, and governments have given far too much for it to be recoverable. Who do I vote for to get wholesale scaling back of IP law? What do I do knowing there's unlikely to be candidates promoting this stance?
Also traffic would grind to a halt if the power went out on that block.
Brooklyn is one of very few places in America where kids can roam around all over. It's a highly walkable, pedestrian friendly place with excellent public transit options. Most of America is not like that at all.
There is hope. More and more young urbanites in dense cities are already eschewing car ownership for walking and on-demand rentals. Even European-style public transit can only be so convenient[1], and a fleet of selfdriving ubers would be perfect. I hope that this will mean even fewer people decide to own cars and that car ownership becomes increasingly uncommon.

[1] public transit is great for when you have a lot of time and aren't carrying a lot of things. Doing, say, your weekly groceries by bus or walking is annoying af. Source: living in a European city without owning a car.

PS: I live in the US now and not having a car is much more convenient than it was in Europe. Uber and zipcar and getaround are magic. We didn't have that in my city
Yes. So should we not do it? Maybe the benefits outweigh the risks. Like almost every engineering decision ever, it's a trade off.
If cars upload their data, as well as data about other cars detected in their environment (e.g. positions of other detected cars), we could detect the suppliers of false or incorrect data by comparing data from multiple cars in each situation. It's not perfect, but could be a step in the right direction.
Why make it centralized? I generally am suspicious of "anonymized" datasets (in the abstract) as any usable data is probably enough to nonymize someone given a couple other pieces of data. Forgive me if you didn't mean a centralized system but I took upload and anonymize to suggest that.

In the case of cars some radio comms (uhf, wifi, or even bluetooth?) is probably sufficient since there is no reason for a car in New York cares about the opinions of a car in San Francisco. You'd probably even see performance gains under a distributed system since latency is effectively taken out of the equation (time of flight for local radio being effectively instantaneous).
But their current technology is not called "autopilot" so they are clearly way behind!1
I've been driving on a track like this few weeks ago, where grass and branches were sticking out on the road, any the collision prevention assist on my car was freaking out, because it was sensing an immediate collision from all of its sensors. Not to mention that there was nowhere for two vehicle to pass, if I met someone else either I or him would have to reverse a significant distance.
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This is a pretty brilliant move in concept. While phones and tablets have encroached on the handheld gaming space, the DS is still a huge success and where Nintendo has continued to dominate the market.

As a parent, I have 4 of the current gen DS systems. One for myself and one for each of my three children.

Nintendo has really struggled to stay relevant in the console space though as seen by the Wii U's underwhelming sales.

If this device is priced right and can continue on their virtual handheld monopoly then they become a sort of defacto console system for the masses. For the first time in ages I'm curious to see what is going to happen with Nintendo.
They don't actually serve completely different purposes. Linting is supposed to catch bugs and it does, very cheaply. It just doesn't catch very many.

In terms of coding style I've found it fairly ineffective at picking up on most bad practices.
Then you shouldn't buy any newer model car. Its still the question of the software... you may own the metal, but the software is licensed
> I see this pro online banking argument all the time... but wouldn't that leave open a big vulnerability for bad actors to steal data and, if they should choose to, control multiple bank accounts and cause fraud?
It's going to be slow until it happens in a rush, I think. There will be a tipping point where enough cars are self driving that it stops being a geeky add-on and starts being seen as a moral necessity. Roughly at the point where government statistics of manual versus self driving motor accident rates gain enough data to be comparable.

There will be a huge public to-and-fro about negligence versus freedom, with driving manual being the new driving drunk, but the insurance premiums will settle it.
I don't have an impression that any of the mentioned languages can provide reasonable alternative to the library written in C or the equivalently compatible language, and the only language that it appears to me to have a chance to have such an implementation could be Rust, but somehow even there it appears to be too hard to do so and/or too little commercial interest to make something "good enough" for the most of the potential users. The Rust community doesn't have to implement all the functionality of Open SSL, but if it would produce at least just a proof of concept (e.g. just a minimal set of algorithms) which would prove both the capability to achieve the same speed and the provably higher security, that would be, I think, a huge start.

That would mean not wrapping the whole OpenSSL library in Rust calls but having some as minimal as possible, the tightest of the tightest loops implemented in ASM and everything else in clean and "secure" (not downgraded to the C freedom) Rust which would also pass the benchmarks and be capable to be called "on the high level" from the C code to which that library could be linked (probably the Rust code would not use GC or if it would it would have to be some so simple and minimal one that it would work by eventually calling the C malloc for bigger blocks and cause no different delays than the good written C). Not easy but I think theoretically possible for Rust. Once it would be achieved, implementing other algorithms would be possible to be done by different people and organizations.

I guess in order to achieve these goals the language designers would have to directly decide to support them, but I'd be glad if the status is already different. But I really believe that would be a huge argument for Rust: being provably more secure than C and achieving ability to implement effective drop-in replacements for C security libraries. Is it too high a goal?

I don't know how far we are from something like that, but maybe some Rust insider can estimate? What's still missing and how far we are from the point where what I described would be possible to implement?
I like my automatic watches but when you dont wear them after 3 days, you always have to reset.....eally annoying
Which struck me as a brilliant idea.
My corollary to the Pareto principle: it's only applicable in 20% of cases, and even then it's only 80% applicable.
This has been a "potential problem" lobbied against advances in car technology since... the beginning of car technology. Obviously you need different (and many could argue "more difficult to learn") skills compared to mechanical repair. But that's always been the direction car repair has headed, from the beginning.

Ideally, there's a fair amount of (reliable) self-diagnosis. If you merely have to replace a camera that starts to malfunction, it might not be any more difficult than replacing a starter or an alternator (depending on construction.)
I laughed out loud when I googled "tsla" after watching the video and the top headline in the news section of the google results was "Analyst doubts the new move by Tesla Motors."

Clicking on the article for humor's value, I continued to read:

> However, Edmunds.com, Inc. analyst Jessica Caldwell questions the value of purchasing a self-driving car before regulations catch up. Caldwell said that, meanwhile, competitors could introduce better solutions, potentially making Tesla’s hardware “obsolete almost as soon as it’s activated for prime time.”

It's just hilarious the contortions of logic people will go to in order to put Musk down.

Having the equipment ready and in action first is somehow a disadvantage by this argument, and now you're better off being later to market.

These same people have written that Tesla will be left in the dust as its competitors beat it to the market because it can't keep up with their manufacturing, and thus being first to market is only an advantage if you're not Tesla.

You can't win.
I will feel safer bicyling in LA when cars and trucks are self-driving though.
German living in the US here: This does only apply for highways / interstates - not for city streets which seems to be the case here.

Side note: People are not very strict about that rule here and nobody cares. Mainly because you're allowed to overtake other cars on both sides - not just only on the left. Isn't that dangerous? Yes, but there's everywhere a speed limit of around 65mph (104kmh) which makes overtaking other cars much easier / safer.
Wow, that's actually incredibly smart. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
It's no less unnerving than going on a plane mostly piloted by computers that rockets through the sky at several hundred miles an hour. There will always be people that fear the loss of control but most people will realize that the convenience is worth giving such a thing up considering that once this technology is perfected you will ideally have a greater chance of getting struck by lightning than dying in a car accident.
I'm not sure I agree with that argument. At least comparing specific impulses of Proton and Soyuz vehicle engines with (older, pre-Russian engined) Delta and Atlas shows the latter are often significantly higher.

That's not to say the Russians haven't done good engines but RD180 for example is derived from the Energia engines which didn't have (at least publicly) lots of trials/failures.
Maybe it does mean that. I can't deny it. But there's no law of physics stating that grandparents are necessarily wrong about everything. I think there's a strong argument to be made that the world really is better when consumers own instead of rent.
You can't take the Wii U tablet with you. It's not the core of the system. This allows Nintendo to combine their console and handheld divisions so that they can unify their focus and have a steady stream of software, even if third parties don't show up.
This is an area where it's easy to be too credulous. If you want "iPhone 1 of self-driving cars", Google has been tooling around in them for a while now. They do a great job under ideal conditions, on a sunny day. The future already happened!

It simply isn't enough to post a video of a car driving in light traffic on a beautiful, California afternoon. That isn't what makes the problem hard. Mess up with your video-based system in the dark, or in bad weather, or...lots of people will die.

This isn't web development. You don't risk lives with your beta release. (Which, not incidentally, is why they haven't released anything other than a video.)
Thinking about it the Warcraft series when they were RTS was a pretty amazing LAN party game. Marathon on the Mac also.
The LIDAR idea seems better to me. The car can build an accurate 3D model. I'm sure the artificial vision of the Tesla is good but it will probably get fooled too.
I'm afraid it will be the same as image recognition technology. It's "easy" to get good image recognition that works in 80-90% of the cases, but it still fails at the easiest edge cases(best image recognition in the world fails at telling a difference between a zebra and a sofa in a zebra print). So I think we will go through a few years of manufacturers making cars which can drive themselves in perfect weather, but we won't see a car that can drive in all conditions for at least a century.
I'm guessing there aren't a lot of people driving their $80,000 car down a dirt road.
I really like Nissan Leaf and I love the fact that Nissan is out there as a competitor. But the reason anyone buys Nissan Leaf is that it is for sale already and that the price is only $29,000.

Otherwise it's inferior to Tesla model 3 in almost any aspect (not to mention the larger Teslas):

- only 107 mile range vs. 215 miles
- no super chargers or own network, relies on third party generic chargers
- less trunk space
- less acceleration
- no battery swap
- no regular software upgrades over the internet
- no self driving capabilities
- no flat screen controls

When Tesla model 3 is out, selling at $35,000, Nissan will have to make serious upgrades to remain a viable alternative.
Until the new generation of rich drop that money on an apple watch and tesla ii instead
> Does it only make a person worse if/when it conflicts with your values?

If I'm to understand that Trump doesn't conflict with my values than you have really not understood my position.
I know theres something pleasant about the older smash games, but the new one is really just as much fun and supports 8-player matches. If you are already meeting >4 people bi-weekly get them to cough up some extra cash, or just buy cheaper beer for a few months and get yourselves a wiiu.
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In my experience those customers have a windows/Mac fanboy style visceral reaction to Nintendo's "different" consoles.
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I ranked them in order of crazy. Milan is the most crazy of crazy. As are the motorways around Milan. I am pretty sure that the shared philosophy to not use the brake is that if they just go faster they can be ahead of any trouble about to occur.
One advantage for self driving cars in the future: no "driver's side". The seats are just seats.
A few people here have mentioned maybe Telsa just want to stop Uber/Lyft buying a bunch of Telsas and operating an autonomous fleet.

My questions is - why would Tesla want to stop them doing that?

The goal is to transition the world to sustainable transport, ASAP. If companies are buying tens of thousands of their cars, that's great!

I have to wonder if Tesla want to stop this because they want to make the profit from the fleet, or because of legal reasons.
Looks intriguing, although, as always, it boils down to what games will be available. I'll reserve judgement until we hear more about them.

In handheld mode, one wonders if they were able to keep parity with the battery life and the touchscreen capability that the DS/3DS had. Losing those would be a significant minus.
Other than Mario Kart my go-to would be N64's Goldeneye. That thing was a masterpiece in so many ways.
> also, did it turn into the wrong lane at 2:25-2:30? is this a security risk?

Yes, totally a crash collision risk! I've witnessed this happened once in a Costco parking lot. Car A made a right turn onto the left lane of the crossing road and the oncoming car B didn't pay attention at the moment and bumped into it head on.
I'm not sure about the start-up analogy here, but it seems a good idea to me to encourage your mother-in-law to pay a visit to her supposed romantic interest.
Or they could end up unused in dresser while they use the latest smartwatch.
In China, there are also lots of scams targeting on the elders, but it is also common that the bank clerks will call the police and the police will call the family to prevent this kind of transactions from happening.
I actually totally disagree. Their mobile products are, in essence, "me-too" products that are larger and less powerful than a smartphone - and they sell well because they have great software and excellent (for games) interfaces/controls.

This seems like an attempt to take that concept into something higher-end/something that is designed to connect to a TV (at least sometimes). I've got to think that will go quite well for them.

The years when the Wii outsold the PS3/X360 are not all that far past. If they come out with something different and compelling, the market will respond.
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This is really the only thing you need to say to people having the same views as the author.

It's the government that should be the more transparent one - not the citizens, who are supposed to "own" the government.

Yet things are very much the other way around right now - by a long shot. Government secrecy has only expanded under Obama, even after promising more transparency compared to Bush's own secrecy. Almost every remotely sensitive government document gets "classified" these days. This nonsense needs to stop.

It's even worse when the media colludes with the government to tell citizens that it's "illegal" to read these emails.

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>Also am I the only one who finds the Peanuts to be depressing? I hated the way everyone treated Charlie Brown and I disliked everyone, including Charlie Brown

How can you dislike Charlie Brown?

Peanuts was a great comic, because it's so true-to-life, though I guess it does water things down some (humans are really much, much, much bigger assholes to each other IRL).
As the years go on and my fingers get more wear and tear, my first question seeing the tiny controller option was "I wonder how bad my hand will cramp using this" but it looks absolutely perfect for kids.
Disabling Apple Music doesn't fix the UI. Its truly horrible and uses the space poorly. I thought apps got rejected for duplicating functionality of provided apps? I think I shall try my hand one weekend at doing a classic music player.
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Same thing in chrome, and the performance of the page is pretty horrible. It's frozen the whole browser a couple of times forcing me to close the window.
That might be true, but it may also be that you just haven't found the cause. It's not always obvious what is causing the depression.

In my own case, certain things in my life were just not right (which I didn't realise at the time), and I didn't realise at the time how much they were affecting me. However once I changed those things, the depression cleared up completely.

YMMV.