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His hands were on the wheel because it'd be illegal to not do that. And that wasn't gripping, it was lightly touching.
Self-driving taxis are the future. Far less waste when the vehicle isn't lying around all day taking up space and doing nothing.
> You can't stop it and most people don't realize it is even happening.

Yet the media will probably spin this as "people just don't care," as they usually do with privacy issues. It's very much an awareness and education issue.
We're not on Windows 10 yet at my workplace, and I don't use Windows at home, so I've only been following loosely in a "this will be nice once I'm finally able to use it" way. But this bit took me by surprise:

> 1 Use the same working directory as the CMD or PowerShell prompt
> 2 Are run under as the WSL default user
> 3 Have the same Windows administrative rights as the calling process and terminal

1 and 3 are not surprising. But 2? There's a WSL default user? Windows users aren't automatically mapped to unique Linux users? That seems problematic in theory. How does it work out in practice?
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It's literally his job to be ready to take over in case of an emergency or malfunction.
I think the video is sped up, and while it may be sped up for a perfectly innocent reason, not indicating which parts of the video are sped up or by how much creates at least the appearance of possible impropriety, especially in a product demonstration.

There's no problem with speeding up demo footage if you indicate you are doing so, like https://youtu.be/PDPrFJazD3Q?t=3m34s
It is so reassuring to see Nintendo create a modern gaming machine that doesn't try to be a living room hub or an iPad competitor. Going entirely by the video alone, every single design decision has been made with a clear focus on gaming. The simple docking action for transitioning it to the TV, the versatility and portability of the controllers, the reasonable size, etc all combine to make this (again, judging entirely from the video) a focused, confident release that finally embraces the changing way people play games.

Besides an original Gameboy (which I loved), I've never owned a Nintendo console. After seeing this trailer, it is an instant buy for me in March.

The only thing I want to know more about is the online store. From what I understand, Nintendo's eStore has a lot of shortcomings in a lot of weird areas. I hope they address those. I have an Xbox One and about 25 games, all of which were purchased digitally. I'm not sure I could go back to physical versions of games.
>As Steven Levy has observed, this sort of leak is a digital counterpart to what had been sought by the Watergate burglars by bugging the offices of the DNC — occasioned through hacking, rather than breaking and entering. Watergate thus looms not only as an example of a cover-up that was revealed through whistleblowing — the covered-up burglary was itself a roundly-denounced, and criminal, attempt to procure a political rival’s private conversations.

I'd never heard that the Nixon team planned to release their recordings to the public.
We pretty much were set on getting a Tesla next year. The fact that they can ban me from doing whatever I want has effectively stopped me from purchasing a Tesla. Not that I plan on doing car-sharing, but I refuse to spend so much money on something that I don't actually "own".
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Coincidentally, my watch has a compass :D
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If it isn't my personal favorite HN'er.
It's a coordination problem. If one company started trying to do it, they'd end up having to fund development while everyone else free-rode. And fundamentally there simply isn't that much money lost to security issues yet.
I know about a dozen of startups that work as a distributed team. Some of the startups/founders are 'Nomads' while others have the team distributed around the world. You can check them on my site [http://www.transparentstartups.com/, search by "remote" :)]
Perhaps more useful to link to the main page, https://github.com/jarun/Buku.

From that page:
"buku is a powerful bookmark management utility written in Python3 and SQLite3. When I started writing it, I couldn't find a flexible cmdline solution with a private, portable, merge-able database along with browser integration. Hence, buku (after my son's nickname)."
Many, but not all, of the emails about to be released would have been subject to:

1) subpoena

2) FOIA request

So Americans (either government officials or private citizens) should have had access to them anyway.

Public servants in the US make a deal: if they want control or influence over the legislative process, then they have to be willing to release their emails.

Of course -- I dislike releasing emails for purely partisan purposes or releasing emails that don't expose any wrongdoing.

But, if we do not have some sort of punishment for people who refuse to respond to subpoenas or FOIA requests, then we open the door for these rules to be ignored.
I doubt they'll homogenize quite as much: Nintendo has always done their own thing, which is both their greatest strength and their biggest weakness.

As for price, I'd expect it to undercut the competition, but also to be less technically capable: That's usually how they play it.
Salary ranges on job listings benefit employers not employees.

Effectively; Salary is what the company values your contribution at. That's why when you hand your notice in you might be offered a pay rise.

By setting a public range you agree informally to be constrained by that range; asking for more once you've interviewed is harder.

Without salary range it is the opportunity that interests you. It lets you set expectations in the first (or later) conversation. Effectively giving you more power in the negotiation.

As an aside; always bid a tad high (for obvious reasons).
Actually the one I wear the most is the Steinhart diver one... because it's quite sturdy; and not expensive enough to be scared if it's bumped into stuff... It's really excellent value, I think.

As a full blood nerd, my read favourite is the Bulova Accutron Spaceview from 1964 -- it as ONE transistor, so I call it my smartwatch ;-)
Could you please provide a more detailed comparison? :)
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> Given that, I've never seen a crowded street in Napoli

My three tests for self-driving cars would be:

1. Drive through Milan on a Saturday afternoon, from the outside of the city, and park on the opposite side of the centre of the city.

2. Drive through London during a weekday, similar thing... cross the centre and find a parking space and park.

3. Drive through Paris during a weekend, same deal.

Those three cities are the most stressful to drive through for various reasons.

With Milan it's speed and decisiveness, small spaces and tight navigation.

With London it's the mix of traffic with a high cycling % along with a good mix of motorbikes and heavy goods vehicles as well as a phenomenal number of pedestrians who will walk out at any moment.

With Paris it's the speed of the ring-road (and the challenge of handling variable speed traffic on and near it) as well as the tight spaces on the streets and the numbers of scooter riders.

I also like the diversity of traffic signals and signs across those cities.

When I see a self-driving car manage those cities I am going to be impressed. It will exercise so much of their systems to do any one of those.

PS: I like that they are all fashion capitals... it would be a good marketing campaign to throw in Tokyo and NYC and present an accessible and fashionable angle to a set of super complex technical achievements.
Video is well done, the car seems amazing.

Offtopic: There seems to be a bug, the video being uploaded twice:

https://www.tesla.com/videos/full-self-driving-hardware-all-...

https://www.tesla.com/videos/full-self-driving-hardware-all-...

The second one redirects to the first. The first contains two links to the second, below and on the right "Next video". I clicked for quite sometime until I figured what was happening.
Are you a geek? Is there no way you can start impersonating him and telling her you've been lying to her etc
Hack her computer and prevent any further communication.
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It might be too late now, but I wonder if you could've convinced her to put the money into a trust and have it slowly distributed to her over the remainder of her life.

At the very least, whatever enjoyment she's getting out of helping this person could be stretched out for decades, and it reduces the risk she'll be out on the streets with no options. And if the story is the guy is in debt, usually creditors are willing to negotiate a repayment plan, so it shouldn't be too hard of a sell. You could even say the scammer will benefit, since he won't get taxed as much doing it this way.

Depending on the exact terms, you might be able to fit in a conditional clause on the scammer only receiving money while they're married. Which she shouldn't oppose, since it's the plan; but a scammer would oppose.
Does anyone know how many people Tesla employs that are dedicated to working on the self driving software?
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How to steal some cars:

- tow the car
- repeat

Anything can be made to seem simple when you oversimplify it.
Even robots ignore the driving instructor!
The game he's playing at the beginning is the new Zelda, which is kind of Skyrim-esque, if that's what you're talking about.

Edit: oops, watched it again and yep skyrim is also in there. Sorry.
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We usually all bring our own. ;-D.

But I'm glad Nintendo doesn't seem to be giving up local MP: It's the best part of having a console, and dropping it is a REALLY BAD IDEA.
I feel like this video would have been even more awesome if Elon himself had been the passenger!
I'd like to see a self-driving car navigate London's narrow streets with cars both sides and the negotiation that goes on between drivers about who goes first.

I'm impressed with this self-driving on California's spacious streets in perfect weather. I'll be really impressed when I see a self-driving car go down a London street in pouring rain, realize it needs to allow someone to come from the other direction and reverses and moves to the left to allow them through.
Definitely falls under the kind of tool I would use if my friend wrote it, but otherwise doesn't really do anything for me. I'm a namecheap user and they do a perfectly good job.
>> Yeah. I can't believe they didn't find some nerds yet that are eager to decrypt the recorders.

With this appearing on HN, how long do you think it will take before the right people contact them? ;-)
(read to the end, I am not making the analogy you think.)

In the country where I was born, in my personal opinion (so this is not a neutral comment) startups are considered scams. Actually a few people elsewhere have expressed similar opinions. So, when you and an "online friend" get together and spend your own time and money, they consider it a scam. Like, if you are working with/for someone, they should be paying you! No concept of equity etc.

Now as we know, many stqrtups coasted by on "binders full of credit cards", were colossal risks. Adults have the right to do that.

Let's say someone tried to "get through to me" that there is NO SUCH THING AS SUCCESSFULLY RAISING MONEY OR A SUCCESSFUL EXIT. The problem is, they're wrong. There is such a thing.

So when you look at your mother's case - she disagrees with you. You are saying "this man is just lying to her" but she says, "no, no".

Well, ask her: does he talk about meeting her? Does he make plans to meet her? (I hope so.)

Have her plan a surprise trip to see him. It doesn't take much money to fly anywhere in the world.

If he is a scammer he will not want to see her under any circumstances. That will tell her all she needs to know.

What I mean is that you have to make her do something that is a differential between the two possibilities.
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I'm making the point that one cannot talk about diversity in general. The word means very different things in different contexts. Political beliefs are not the same thing as race or gender.
No bad, but it still needs to be taught to keep to the right. Unless this is how people normally drive in the US ?
This advice is a holdover from the 70s and 80s when the CV joints in front wheel drive cars really were not strong enough, and dry steering would put a lot of extra stress on them, and they would wear out in no time.

The amount of "stress" they put on the tires is infinitesimal compared to taking a single corner at high speed.

I'm quite certain Tesla wouldn't be doing it if they were not sure their power steering system can handle it.
It's sad how presenting such solid, undeniable evidence results in a downtrend in valuation:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-shares-just-took-dive-14...
The legal situation right now does not matter. Who pays the lobbyists? This is a long-term plan not just of Tesla, but a corporate dream. No more danger of losing customers, when you have "the one ring" to bind them...

It won't sound evil. They will just tell the politicians that in order to invest huge sums of money they need guarantees, that the uncertainty of not binding their customers hinders job creation and investment, etc. Nothing is new in that playbook, since from their point of view it's actually not even wrong. It's not like they have to come up with some outrageous lies. Today it's Tesla, but that process has been going on for a long time. It's just too good: Control over a stable income stream instead of the ups and downs of the free market. It also appeals to people working in those firms, so again not actually clearly "evil".

It also appeals to a lot of people in our allegedly "uncertain and dangerous times" that there is ever more "order" and control. They actually have a point: The more complex out systems become, which includes the state, the more dangerous failure and the harder a recovery. Are our systems becoming more unstable? If so the trend explains itself, because that calls for more certainty and control - since changing the system itself seems to be no option because nobody knows how and what to change it to, or at least there is no trace of a consensus. So, more order and control it is.
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> I do not want a company telling me how to use my product that I paid for.

I'm not defending Tesla here, I just want to draw an analogy. You can't go a store, buy a DVD for $15 and then charge tickets to project to an audience. You need a different, more expensive license for that. The same applies to music and software, even if it is embedded firmware in a car.
The original NaCl had assembly implementations, I believe generated with a Perl script (not unlike OpenSSL's asm generator), and looking around libsodium I cannot see assembly implementations of the loops. Does anyone know why that is? I believe the Linux kernel implementation of ChaCha20 carries asm versions.
That's because I'm proposing the law that was found to be legal.

If Law X is legal, and I support Law X, then stop telling me Law Y is illegal -- it's irrelevant.
> Who wants to speculate how long it will be until self-driving cars are common place in the UK?

And it should be able to automatically detect that it's in the UK and drive on the left side of the road... I'm curious - can you even get a Tesla in the UK (or Japan or Australia, etc), and do they make a right-side driver model?
> People are offended by "cockpit"?

People are stupid, really stupid. And some of them have huge chips on their shoulders. Combine the two and you get magic.
I wouldn't worry, it's heavily customised. If you tested in all the main browsers you're probably fine.

I suspect it was olark, as I can't see anything else obvious. That screenshot image is pretty heavyweight too, I can see it downloading.
I still have fond memories when we gathered together after school with friends to play some Mario Kart or Smash Bros. It's still damn fun!
It's a bad reference, so I dismiss it. To be extreme, you may as well say the earth is flat because you met a bunch of people at a local gathering of the flatlander society who believe it to be true. Obviously people are going to be enthusiastic about rust if they're taking time from their weekends to go hang out with others to talk about it. It's just an irrelevant data point.
I know I would tinker with it. And I'd probably die. So thank you Tesla :)
I would be highly interested in reading such a book. Any drafts and/or links available?
...and there's the rub, isn't it? "free"
All kidding aside, if you can afford a few bucks, look at the Wes Bos series.
Pretty sure revjx was talking about the first-person sword wielding game.
I look forward to having to insert and remove three car seats for every short trip...

EDIT: By 'car seat' I mean a seat for an infant/toddler/child.
Can you talk more about when and how many times they've met in person?
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You don't get issued a learner's permit if you are over 18 in most states that I am aware of.
Try some coffee with a light breakfast, then move on to the harder stuff if you still can't cope with "words".
probably the same X1 SoC as Nvidia Shield? Or a new X2?

Thought AMD would be their supplier before, but I don't think they have any mobile chips
> - hack into a car remotely

Because the average car thief definitely has experience breaking through secure systems.
I would say a good enough measure would be down to accidents. With a large enough dataset I am sure there would be a strong correlation between driving quality and accidents. In that regard the desires of the insurance companies are largely in line with the general public.
Exactly this one: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/10/dont-plan-on-using-an-au...

When you own nothing, and license everything, what's stopping the licensor to ban you, or just increase the prices as they want?
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My response was crafted to match the tone of yours. So...

As far as manipulation, no. We do exert our will and sometimes force them to do what we want, for the reasons that you name. In that you are right, it is part of being a parent. However, the key is that we do our very best to be transparent with them and accountable to them about what we are doing. That is the difference and what makes it not manipulation.

That dishonesty is what I took issue with in your original comment and the reason I replied the way I did. Like I said, I disagree vehemently about being dishonest or manipulative with my children because it is too easy for that to leave lasting issues or teach lessons counter-productive to their best interest.

Using manipulation as a parenting tool is a great way to raise rebellious teenagers. My children do not always agree with my parenting choices and rules, but they understand why they are there. They understand explicitly that our actions are for their best interest, and I allow them to hold us accountable to that!

I am accountable to them for how I use my authority. I respect them as people and respect their free will. This makes me feel extremely careful about how I subjugate their free will. We are surely not perfect in this, but we explicitly give them permission to call out inconsistencies in our parenting, to question our judgement. I apologize to my children when I fall short of my own stated goals.

Openness, honesty, transparency, accountability. I am modeling to them the way I believe authority should be wielded in general. Look at our society today. I believe one of the biggest problems threatening our democracy is authority wielded without transparent responsibility, accountability, and honesty towards those being governed.

Dishonesty with my children is reprehensible. I stand by my earlier statements.
>I think a "budget car" might be just a tad more expensive than $1000, relative to your income.

My income is in no way connected to what constitutes a budget car.

>carrying around eight hours of work in a product that you will use every day for two years isn't a leap, is it?

Yes it is if my current phone already does >90% of what this phone does.

You seem to think you have to buy more expensive things as your income increases. This is luxury creep and has disastrous consequences. I have a long term view and don't intend to work for all of my life.
Heavy stop start traffic is already more or less solved. The previous Autopilot system handles it beautifully.

City driving, roadblocks, accidents, and other unusual circumstances definitely deserve to be called more difficult, though.
It looks very promising. Nintendo's strengths are in portable and local coop play, and they've managed to create a new product that excels at both.
Just dawned on me that a demo might be better than just linking to the marketing site :)

Here is a BugReplay recording demonstrating an ebay security vulnerability that we recorded awhile back:

https://app.bugreplay.com/shared/report/3efa632d-5b51-45f1-a...
It's too late to brag about predicting it now, but it was too obvious back then to be worth bragging about: of course GMail didn't get hacked. Why would any hacker attempt that when phishing is so straightforward and as cost-free as a Nigerian prince scam?

That said, I don't fault Podesta or Gen. Powell for failing to catch a phishing attack. Even though the phisher slaughtered the spelling of "Mountain" and "Amphitheater", most people don't read that boilerplate text [0]. In terms of the quality of the fake email...unless you are routinely receiving transactional email from Google, you're not going to notice the sloppiness of the CSS and typography.

What does tick me off is that Podesta has already been hacked [1] since Wikileaks has been dumping his emails. I don't think it's hyperbole to say that Podesta's email fuckup made Clinton's campaign much harder (or, at least annoying). OK, if we can't expect our senior statespersons to understand the Internet and URLs and etc., can't we at least expect them to have hired reliable tech folk and to follow their advice? -- e.g. Let me set up 2-factor authentication for you.

[0] http://motherboard-images.vice.com/content-images/contentima...

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/12/politics/john-podesta-twitter-...
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Just how many new programmers were produced between the years 1975 to 1985? Not a whole lot. That's why you don't see too many old programmers around, because they were pioneers in a new field. They are still around but they get lost in the crowd of new younger and less-experienced programmers.
Yeah, the two people playing Mario Kart split screen on that thing was laughable.
Its not running x86 like the PS4 and XBone that's for sure.

Its apparently running a Tegra chip[1]. Exact specs... well we can only guess at this point. So its more similar to an Android tablet than the other consoles.

So the hardware is more standard but its still not the same standard as the other boxes. That could hurt 3rd party adoption.

[1] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Is this usual or is it just edited strangely?