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It is quite impressive, but I'll honestly have a hard time getting excited about self-driving cars until I see a demo of driving at night in a snow storm (heck, even heavy rain would be nice to see) around road construction, poor signage and faint lines on the road. Believe it or not, those kinds of conditions are fairly common in places outside of California, and until we have self-driving cars that can do really well in those conditions, this is basically just a fun demo in my opinion.

I'm really not trying to downplay the hard work and technical merit of Tesla; sped-up video and opportune edits aside, it is very cool. But I can't help but feel that it's a bit like showing off (to the world) your shiny new web app that only works in IE with ActiveX installed, only if your name is "demo user", and only when the planets are in perfect alignment - or in other words, a functional prototype by anyone else's standards. It's a great achievement, but we're certainly not "there" yet - if that's what it's trying to communicate. And yes, the "Full Self-Driving Hardware" headline certainly seems to suggest that (at least) the hardware is "there" now, and that it's only a matter of software iteration to be done.

Before you respond with the typical "but those are just nitpicky details" or "this is only v1; v2 will be able to solve those things easily", let me say this: going from this to a system that can handle challenging road conditions is not just a matter of software iteration. Since poor road conditions threaten the reliability of sensor data itself, we're talking about a problem that gets increasingly more difficult. The most sophisticated software in the world can't do anything if cameras and sensors are frozen or obstructed, and when signage and lines are lacking, the software must rely on more and more human-like levels of AI inference - not just about driving, but about the complex world in general.
The strategy Musk has clearly been using for a long time now with this is to put as much hardware and software into the field as possible, often even without the customers knowing it's there, and gathering vast amounts of data from it, and gradually forcing it into widespread availability and acceptance, all while letting the system learn and improve itself, which is a necessary step.

He's doing what he does best: forcing a hard change on an established system.

Autonomous driving not allowed? Well, we'll give them "Autopilot"-- make sure to keep your hands on the wheel! Nope, it's not autonomous, it's Autopilot! It just happens to have all the hardware needed to be fully autonomous, and Autopilot will "gradually gain new capabilities." Questionable? Sure. Best way to make an extremely hard industry transition? Almost definitely.

It would be a chicken and egg problem if he didn't do this. Can't test the system extensively beyond the lab without regulations, can't have a system that doesn't meet regulations because it hasn't been tested enough yet. He's just sidestepping this dilemma.
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In the US, you're "supposed to" drive in the right or middle lanes, using the leftmost lane only to pass. Here's a map of the state laws as of 2010. (It's only necessary on highways and state routes, I think?) http://jalopnik.com/5501615/left-lane-passing-laws-a-state-b...

However, it's not a hard and fast rule, and a lot of people don't follow it. So I have to deal with morons who drive 5mph below the speed limit, in the left lane, on state routes. Every single day. As I drive up and down a decently large hill.

RE: Wrong lane: that Tesla driveway would be confusing to even a human driver. It's definitely not a regular road, so the car didn't understand it.
Interestingly enough, the new IAU definition of "planet" makes no reference to origin:

A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

Whether a black hole could be considered a planet would hinge, I believe, primarily on b: Arguably, any black hole has sufficient mass to overcome rigid body forces, but does the notion of hydrostatic equilibrium apply?

More broadly, the definition of planet would allow for bodies of extra-solar origin captured by the sun....
I especially liked this sentence:
> the module had successfully completed most steps of its 6-minute descent through the martian atmosphere

Completing "most steps" in a landing, but not the last one (I.e. Safe touchdown) is equal to a crash.
July 2019
I'm not getting any of these errors and page is very fast.
Am I the only one disappointed that this means Snoopy won't be in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
It doesn't have to be infallibly. It only has to be a single order of magnitude better than any human driver, and most people will start using it.

How many other sectors have abandoned human interference after computers surpassed human performance?
"It's our responsibility to choose and support products that respect our rights and empower us. Vote with your feet."

I think you mean 'wallet'.

But it's hard for consumers when as individuals they have little choice.

Mobile OSs come in 2 flavours. Wherein there is lack of competition, it's nary impossible for consumers to 'vote with their wallets' because there's few other places they can go.

I think this might call for some intelligent regulation.
Same. I'm really happy that, insofar there's cars, they're good. However, having lived in walkable cities, where the car is basically a specialty tool for moving furniture or going away to the country for the weekend, the idea of it becoming even more enmeshed into daily life is a grim prospect.
Isn't this called a market for lemons?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
MVPs are of course great and I think this will be huge, but this is a safety critical piece of kit. There is a big difference between having your phone crash and having your car (literally) crash, into something solid.
I just don't see how this is not ownership. You aren't renting, you're paying a standard purchase price for a good which has some restrictions on its use. Do you think that Tesla should have to make sure that its self-driving software is compatible with every ridesharing app that any random person comes up with? How will that work with liability if somebody sends their self-driving Tesla out to work under a ridesharing app that feeds bad inputs to it?
Correct me if I am wrong. I believe eshop purchases are still tied to the system and not the account. This makes transferring of content more of a hassle than it needs to be. You'll need to do a system transfer of the games if you want to maintain your library.
Just for fun, have a look at the comments about the iPod announcement: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.50...

There's always people with something to say.
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I would suggest going to /r/bootroom on Reddit and asking for some help there. It's a subreddit catered to getting better at soccer. I'm sure they'd be glad to help with any vocabulary questions, even if you never plan on playing the game in real life.
Randos casually dismissing the brilliant and highly accomplished? That's exactly Hacker News, in 2016.
He's being cynical there, rejecting the contentment, not endorsing it.
I think it's going to be a war of lobbies, with "traditional" automotive companies spreading FUD, and insurance companies pressuring for faster adoption.

It's worth mentioning - which I already hinted at in another comment - that self-driving cars, awesome as this is, will be yet another area where our privacy gets compromised, same as with mobile phones. This will push governments to favour it in the long run and eventually outlaw "regular" cars altogether as too anarchic (or make using them so expensive and cumbersome that it's going to amount to the same thing).
Having done both, the US system makes so much more sense. Less maneuvering means fewer potential accidents.

Even if undertaking is banned, you still need to check when switching lanes since people will undertake you no matter what. So there is no clear benefit.
Yes, it's how people normally drive and it's very frustrating for those of us who understand why keeping to the right is better.

My experience driving in the UK, Netherlands, France & Germany suggests that citizens of those countries are much much more conscientious about driving etiquette than us North Americans.
Well, it's coming 1.5 years late to the game, I hope the graphic power is at least on par with the original PS4.
Am I the only one who found it funny that people, all dressed up, playing a basketball game on the device right in front of a basketball field?
You do realize that gov't emails are supposed to be public, right? That's the law.
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>> then the car doesn't look cool anymore.

This doesn't look cool either:

>> There are videos of three separate Tesla crashes where the Tesla plowed into a vehicle partially blocking a lane.
The video seemed to imply that the hardware is using cameras for navigation. What if a camera lens is simply dirty? Seems, very, very brittle.
Hi, yes it's quite comparable, just more specific for Windows as it uses IIS and .NET.

Thanks for the advice regarding Show HN. It meets the guidelines.
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of licensing issues. It was pretty much ported to the 360, but legal reasons kept it from being released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRRuhviJGMQ
For a kids team the goal should be improving their skills as well as having fun. Winning should not take a front seat to development.
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William Miller predicted Jesus' return in the year 1843. When that didn't happen, he adjusted his calculations to mean March 21, 1844. When that failed, it became October 22, 1844. He kept modifying his prediction whenever it failed. You'd think being constantly proven wrong would make people stop believing him.

That's how the Seventh-day Adventist Church was started. A church that today has more than 18 million members.

You can't reason people out of something they didn't reason themselves into.
I don't know about CryptoPP, or your application of encryption, but wasn't libtomcrypyt a well-intentioned but wholly poor attempt at re-presenting crypto to developers? Is it even widely used? I came to it by way of libtommath, but recall feeling pretty quickly tomcrypto was not a crypto solution.
Here's the reason there have been no bodies found. They made a movie out of it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_(film)
That or a delusional disorder with a pinch of erotomania.
Why limit it to "consoles"? An iPad could, depending on the desired render quality. The A9x is probably beefier than the Tegra in this, or is at least competitive. (edit: "Probably" is a strong word, given that this is coming out in early 2017, but at least in the ballpark.)

Don't get me wrong, I think the device looks cool and I was already planning on buying one. But "playing Skyrim" just doesn't tell you anything, especially when the video on-screen is plastered there with After Effects. It's sloppy thinking to jump on that as meaningful anythings.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I like the move; I think it's smart.

But saying it's an "autonomous car" because it has the sensors and computers just isn't so. When it gets the software, then it's an "autonomous car."

To use GPs analogy to the iPhone1: If Apple had just shipped the hardware without iOS, it wouldn't have been the iPhone.
Yeah but the first-gem iPhone couldn't kill people. A poorly-built car easily can.

I like Tesla, just pointing out why people are right to demand they get it at least as good as humans before pushing it to market.
Special edition Skyrim is coming out this month, 28th of October, on the PC, not 3 years ago.
The strip was around for a very long time. I suppose that it may have run out of steam after some number of years, maybe after the middle of the 1960s. That it has outlasted its creator by so many years, I attribute to the human aversion to novelty at breakfast.
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AFAIK, that is still how it works as of the Wii U. And yeah, there's awful processes for if say, your device dies, and you need to recover your digital purchases.
This is exactly what I'm concerned about. It seems ridiculous. Not sure if it's enough to be a deal breaker, but it seems so backwards especially as they control the whole platform.
Very good, I like that. I might have to steal that line.
Unfortunately this is really common on HN nowadays.

What I find really interesting about Tesla (and SpaceX and HyperLoop) criticism is that people think it will fail for what it doesn't do, instead of focusing on what it does do. What they don't realize is that all products in history that got hugely successful didn't do a ton of stuff initially. They just did some things really well.

Early washing machines were noisy as hell and got unbalanced all the time. But who cares? they washed clothes and everyone wanted one.

Early TVs were massive things with fussy screens and only in B&W.

The first iPhone was extremely slow and only had EDGE.

But rather than focus on what all of those things don't do, you only need to realize they do something really well, and that's why they are a huge success.

Even if the Tesla can't drive itself too well in heavy snow, or if the range is crap in really, really cold weather - WHO CARES? There are still tens of millions of people on earth that will lap them up because of the list of things they do so well.

Products don't fail or succeed because of what they don't do. They fail or succeed because of what they do do.
I'm assuming the Switch replaces the Wii U. But will the 3DS live on? I assume the answer there is yes as well, but the lines between the two products is getting really blurry, isn't it?
It did cross our minds. But the future of browser plugins is quite uncertain (security issues, memory usage concerns...). Buku is browser compatible... you can add bookmarks from anywhere on Linux and OS X without touching the terminal or export Buku database as HTML and import it (ref: https://github.com/jarun/Buku#gui-integration).

We do have a ToDo list item for an Android app.
When this becomes real, the next question becomes "why own the car"? What's the benefit of having it sit in a parking lot for 8 hours until I'm ready to go home. Seems like the future will become more Uber-like, where I call up rides whenever I want, and don't worry about parking, maintenance, etc....
Thanks for this. I don't understand the presumptuous armchair commentary concluding its a long con. That seems like the least likely explanation of what actually happened, and seems to miss the entire point of the article. Maria chose to meet and help Johnny and in effect willingly gave him a scholarship. Good for her, I aspire to be more charitable like that, and not be so pessimistic to suggest that someone's conscious willing charity and scholarship and financial aid amount to them being scammed.
Looking carefully at the cartridge when they slide it in (0:53 in the video), it looks to be perhaps twice as thick as the 3DS cart. But it would be very easy to make both go in the same slot, just make the new carts ever so slightly thinner. I can't see if the controllers have all the 3DS controls, but it looks like it's at least close. And a modern chip, with the option to be at least partially designed for the task, could easily either emulate or ship with hardware support for running the 3DS, which still is not that powerful in modern terms. Losing the 3D support is all but a non-issue in practice. I don't want to predict this is the case, but I see no major technical reason why this couldn't run 3DS games fully backwards compatibly.

The only thing I can't see is whether the screen is a touch screen, which would be necessary. Which may also preclude using 3DS games in TV mode. (Unless they do something weird with Wiimotes or something. But I'm not sure that would play well enough to be worth doing.)

If it's backwards compatible with both 3DS and the WiiU, and perhaps even the Wii, this thing will come out of the game with an absolutely killer lineup. ('Twould be a pity there would probably no way to port the physical disks that you already own across, though. The 3DS games would just slip in, so they'd have an ironic advantage over "real" Wii games.)
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I would guess "with a surrogate".
It's a bit odd to compare self driving cars (which have to constantly evaluate their surroundings, change direction, and avoid obstacles such as parents and kids) to a machine that flies through the air with zero obstacles, has a minimum of three people at the helm, and they each have at least 1500 flight hours of training under their belt as an airline first officer first.
As much as I agree with you on the importance of good public transport, I am hopeful that the "car culture" will evolve into an alternative to the existing public transport systems; Once we have self-driving cars running on clean energy operating in an Uber like sharing economy model, there will be no need for car ownership and the cost of a ride will be low enough for the majority of people to afford.
I understand that this is more difficult to achieve in reality than in ideas but I am hopeful. About health related issues, we will still have to look for other ways to make a healthier society.
I don’t know why authors of GCC invented that non-standard extended C dialect, you better ask them.

In Visual C++, the prototype of that intrinsic is valid C99 code:

extern __m256d __cdecl _mm256_permute2f128_pd(__m256d, __m256d, int);
My bet? Stars are strange. What we don't understand about stellar evolution really can't be overstated. Even where examples of it exist, we only get snapshots of the process which takes a great deal of time, and those snapshots are often utterly obscured by dust.
It's actually a new engine, the same one used in Fallout 4: https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/12/skyrim-hd-special-editio...
That I agree with, yes. But he always stretches the wording. It's his version of advertising, and frankly I prefer it over dancing hamsters.
"Release date three years ago" was referring to the PS4. Fallout 4's minimum specs on PC, even (i.e., not an optimized platform), are lower than the PS4-equivalents on that platform. I would expect a mobile device (and the Switch is on a Tegra platform, it's a mobile device), three years further down the line, to be able to be at least in the ballpark of "competitive", with allowances and restrictions (lowered draw distance, simplified shaders, maybe reduced texture size depending on the memory budget), with a machine packing a Radeon HD7870.

My point is that re-engine'ing the game doesn't change the assets involved (stuff like texture quality or shader complexity has a pretty significant impact on performance), nor (necessarily) the visual effects involved. You could scale UE3 down to run on absolutely laughable hardware and games today still regularly support 640x480 and other silly things. Being "on an engine" means something only when you have hard hardware requirements, like requiring support for SM 4.0 or whatever.
on the contrary, wine makes cheese taste better.
Firefox doesn't seem to support this on Debian (Linux?) or Android (or more?):

Debian/Firefox:

Tried typing in the animated 'Hello!' at the top of the screen on the home page, in order to enter a domain name, but nothing happened. Reason for trying clicking and entering something was because the animation seemed like indication of input functionality to search for names and domains, but no input happened.

For something to happen, could be nice, especially as the comments here suggest you make revenue only from domains managed through Nuage - get signups early by getting people on the front page.

Checking further, the https://www.nuageapp.com/features page suggests checking domains is possible, without needing to log in first, but the text box is not selectable.

For fun, tried on mobile: Android/Firefox

The 'Hello' on '/' is unclickable as when trying with desktop - not sure if it is supposed to be or not... The burger menu is also unclickable; when going to /features the input box was also unclickable like on desktop.
The Wii U shop isn't completely awful, but it's pretty bad. Both the 3DS and Wii U shops suffer from two major problems:

1. They're slow.

2. There are far too many screens/taps necessary to do things.

Loading each new screen seems to take at least a few seconds, and there are way too many of them. I'd estimate you could remove like half the screens in the 3DS shop purchase flow through better UX design. Just compare how long it takes to buy something on either system to how long it takes on Android or iOS.

edit: oh yeah and downloading takes large games takes a REALLY long time. I downloaded the new Sonic game for my 3DS the other day on the guest wifi at a Google office and it took like 3 or 4 hours. It definitely wasn't the wifi that was the constraining factor, speed testing on my phone showed it at like 200 mbps.
The UK is actually being quite progressive in this area. There are tests in Greenwich and Milton Keynes. The legislation is being looked at too.

You probably won't need to own one either, just hail one. So it may be very affordable.

I wrote a little more about this here: https://unop.uk/more-on-electric-vehicles
This is why you shouldn't buy a car you don't actually get to own (or any device you don't actually own).
Of course -- through FOIA and recent subpoenas -- which is why the outrage over the release of these emails is even more hypocritical
With all sorts of current issues, I wouldn't be surprised if the poor guy was the fall guy. Heck, the guy was part of an elite team for NSA and at some point you have take your work home so you could finish it after dinner or over the weekend. Given the circumstances the story doesn't add up looking at it from software perspective to the least.

If he was the one (with full proof) trying to sell secrets then I won't blink twice.
When you force them to record their in person meetings, they will just have extra in person meetings that they don't record.

I don't see where else the line of thinking that we deserve to have access to their email ends up, and it's pretty easy to argue that Podesta picking the brains of people he knows is not actually official party business.
I think most places, debts can be inherited voluntarily, but you can't cherry pick.

If your dead aunt had a Mercedes 190SL, but also owes $200,000, you can either take both or nothing.

But yeah – they won't end up in debt themselves, unless they choose to.
Am I just a brain?
To me it doesn't look like flame at all. Flame logo of Bunsen Labs Linux distro [1] on the other hand looks like flame and it looks good.

https://www.bunsenlabs.org/
As soon as I complained, they refunded me.
>That's akin to saying Apple should have waited to release their phone until iPhone 7

With iPhone 1, people's lives were not at stake.
In all fairness, the initial iPods were nothing to write home about and, as I recall, iTunes didn't even run on anything except Macs--then a rather niche hardware platform. Of course, iPods improved relative to the competition but it was really the iTunes store and Apple's ability to fundamentally change how music was sold that really had the impact.