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Holtz's Twitter rant is at [1].

Cruise Automation was very lucky to be acquired by GM before they got a similar letter. Similarly, Otto being acquired by Uber. They were both proposing to sell similar add-on systems. Their valuations would have been much lower after receiving such letters.

NHTSA has it right. "It is insufficient to assert, as you do, that 'your product does not remove any of the driver responsibilities from the task of driving'. As you are undoubtedly aware, there is a high likelihood that some drivers will use your product in a manner that exceeds its intended purpose."

Did Tesla got a similar letter? They have exactly that problem and exactly the same excuse. Tesla claims “Autopilot is an assist feature. You need to maintain control and responsibility of your vehicle.”

Here are three dashcam videos of Teslas crashing on autopilot. These are the three where there was a stopped vehicle partially blocking the left edge of the lane, and the Tesla plowed right into it. Tesla blames the driver. Looks like the NHTSA isn't buying that.

[1] https://twitter.com/comma_ai
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ7vqAUJdbE
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoSNw_n1Xgk
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkx-4pFjus
I believe she herself knows how bad it is because she's avoiding to immediately address the issue, while speaking publicly an hour later.
I think this is the most sane, non-politicized way of stating what happened here. You can speculate as to the motives of the regulator (short timeframe, high costs, certain friends), but the fact of the matter is this was a major flaw in his plan which he didn't see coming.

[edit] unless his real plan was to go to China all along...
But you do know something might be off, which is better than not knowing when something is off.
Do I think there's significant political pressure to have his product, ahem, driven into the ground as to not be a viable competitor to larger firms?

I think it's likely that he's getting exactly the same treatment one of those "larger firms" would get if they did the same.

The difference between him and those "larger firms" is that the "larger firms" would've been planning for the regulatory checks from the start. They would never have been blindsided by a request for information because they'd have known this stuff is a legal requirement and would've been proactively having discussions with regulators, figuring out what they'd need to provide, etc.

And speaking from what I've seen working at a startup in a heavily-regulated industry: federal regulators aren't black-suited startup-killing robots. They don't seem to care much how new or "agile" or "lean" or "disruptive" a company is. They care that the things or people protected by the relevant regulations... are actually protected. Crazy idea, I know, but it certainly does appear to be the case most of the time (cue people lining up with anecdotes to angrily tell me I'm some kind of statist apologist whatever and shouldn't be listened to...).
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microsoft always made better products, apple sucks at making products. they are just good at advertising. microsoft should get better at advertising and apple should get better at making computers
> As for your question, you basically destroyed the conversation when you asked "Is your family an acceptable casualty?" If you just wanted numbers, you shouldn't have made it personal like that. That's all my point is here.

This is a really fair point but I also don't think it's a bad thing to say this. I think people distance themselves from possible problems by calling things a numbers game but they don't factor in the fact that they could be part of those numbers.

If I say that 27000 people per year die from listening to Mambo Number 5 then I say that we can lower that to 15 if we remix it to take out the deadly frequency but we will have to test it on 20 people to find which is the deadly frequency for sure. That sounds great. A couple people might die but what's that to save 27000/year?

Well, take that and say we will have to test it on 20 people and 5 of those will be your family. That makes the decision a lot harder. Logically it's exactly the same but emotionally instead of "people" it's 15 "people" and 5 of your family.

So, it's important to mention it could be your family because if someone was alright with it because they are looking at the pure numbers, they should be brought back to the reality that we all actually live in a little.
This will be a dangerous egress point for scams attacking the elderly.

Right now scammers seem to be defaulting to annoying but fungible instruments like iTunes gift cards.

It's going to be a lot worse when they can direct grandma to go to the train station and turn her pension into Bitcoin
One is under criminal investigation by the FBI for actions that are blatantly illegal and we have concrete evidence of occurring. She got off the first time without charges due to a bullshit reason from the FBI ("no reasonable prosecutor would take this up").

One has received a civil lawsuit which means absolutely nothing and is based entirely on he-said-she-said allegations. There is no investigation. I could go file a lawsuit today against you for sexual harassment. It means literally nothing other than I paid an attorney money to go file a piece of paper.
The fine is punative. Noncompliance is often not acceptable when it comes to safety and environmental regulations. When I worked in plants, you can bet there were only two groups that would put the fear of God in operations: OSHA and the local environmental regulations agency. Fines could be thousands per hour (or per infraction, which could be collected hourly). Even if it's unreasonable (and for damn sure it can be - Argon metering was my personal worst hated), you better comply until you successfully sue or negotiate it down.

And it is likely necessary. Meeting regulations is far harder and more expensive than just the feel good that you met the reqs. If there wasn't a stick held up as a credible threat, plants would just trash everything. Not because they're evil, but because plants simply can't care - they aren't people. Thusly these agencies are impersonal and brutal in kind.
That letter was an easy out for him. When you boast about your tech and it doesn't deliver on the promise (and don't forget the Musk challenge), it looks much better if your exit is caused by government interference than if you were to quit on your own. It's kind of less of a failure.

Granted, it's a huge stretch for him based on the language of the letter, but that's how I read the situation.
In some ways we have methods to mitigate this already in place. They have, of course, been exposed as insecure when they were implemented badly[1][2]. That being said, there is prior art on this, in nature.

You have your own trusted sources of information, and you have your secondary sources of information, which you apply trust levels to. Your own trusted sources of information are your own senses, your sight, hearing, feeling (touch), smell, etc. You may have something communicated to you about your condition or environment through these senses, but it's silly to take that at face value without confirming with your own senses. If your friend next to you that you trust tells you that you're about to walk into a wall, you look ahead. If you can't see a wall, you might slow and exercise caution until you figure out why you were relayed that information, but unless you can completely stop without problem, you don't do that without cause.

I think it's a mistake to think of cards in the future communicating as a swarm. They need to be able to function independently, and also to take in extra information from the group when the group is available, and make decisions on that. That's less swarm behavior than social behavior, so we should consider groups of cars on the road a social groups, and the same information dynamics exhibited in those groups apply.

1: http://gizmodo.com/how-a-hacker-could-hijack-an-airplane-fro...

2: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
One cannot infer the behaviour of the Windows Subsystem for Linux from the behaviour of Cygwin. The two are quite different things.

You're also being misled by the misleading "Bash on Windows" marketing name. It's not bash, even primarily. It's a "personality" subsystem for running Linux binaries on top of the Windows NT kernel. And that's what jiantastic is asking about: whether the subsystem, with what Linux programs it can run and what limitations it has, is "good enough" as a development environment, which includes considering everything from running compilers to hosting test rigs. Xe is not asking whether the Bourne Again shell is better than some other command interpreter.
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Just an anecdote: I typed pretty decently on it and used it for years for everything including programming. (For reference sake, I've never timed, but I'm one of the fastest typist among people I know when not using the Touchstream)
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Thanks for the response, it seems that your use case is very similar to mine (Ruby, Node.js, etc.). I actually decided to go with the i3 model with 16GB of RAM, since I don't think that I will do anything extremely demanding or graphically intense and it's super affordable to boot. I'll run elementary OS or Fedora on it, hopefully it will all work out.
THe funnier thing is if you search google for NHTSA special orders, you will find this is pretty much the nicest and simplest one they've issued in quite a while :)
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Datacentre's have outstanding track records, and if you secure your box correctly there are few ways to compromise it. On-premise will either be incredibly costly or missing key protections or infrastructure.

Self-hosted git (through the many installable git servers or raw git) running on a correctly sized box is almost certainly the way to go
Did you click the link? I despise these platforms as well, because they're all just timed, algorithmic heavy, dynamic programming tests: almost completely irrelevant to real-world programming, and devilishly difficult to get exactly right. And that's if you studied CS in school and got exposure to this stuff there.
100% agree. All the time I hear "it's not a pro machine if it doesn't have 16GB of RAM" or "a pro machine needs firewire and HDMI out and a headphone jack and real function keys" and I think... am I just not a professional? Because I rarely use an external monitor, rarely use the function keys as actual function keys, and I'm fine with 8GB of RAM and a core i5. But my MacBook is 100% my work laptop, and I get paid a heck of a lot of money, so...?

I mean, professionals are the most likely to use dongles and attachments. We sometimes have esoteric needs (I very frequently require a serial port, but I'm not crying that Apple doesn't include one), we can commonly get our work to pay for them, and we generally have a desk to put things on and a bag to carry them with. Consumers wouldn't put up with that nonsense, they just want to use Facebook and Netflix.

We've already established that I am not a professional because I don't need HDMI or function keys, so all I can say from the outside looking in is... man professionals are seriously whiny. Also can we start a campaign to get Apple to put a full-size serial port back on their laptops? That's something a real professional would use.
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> I guess it's one of those things you really don't know how you will react

In my case of the hypothetical close-call, I think if I had a car with one of these "impending doom" tones, just hearing that tone in conjunction with a near-miss on the road would probably give me a heart attack.
>> the shittiness of Windows and Linux

I made the switch to Windows, and while it doesn't have the same polish as OSX in many areas, it's pretty good. Even with my OSX muscle memory, it only took a few days to get used to some of the unfamiliar new stuff (to the point where using OSX now feels a little foreign to me).

There are things in Windows I hate, but there were things in OSX that I hated too. If you use Windows 10 without too many preconceived notions, it's actually pretty good. It's definitely way better than XP, which was the last Windows OS I used prior to switching to Mac. I don't get many crashes etc., and my workflow is pretty much the same as it was on Mac. I use Cmder as my Terminal replacement, but at some point, I'll use that new Linux stuff they built into the Anniversary Edition of Windows 10.
I have a Dell xps 13 with skylake. I absolutely love it. They even have kabylake now and it's cheaper than the mbp.
"designed for humans"

what
You call it foot stomping, I call it expressing disappointment.
Requested responses 8 and 9 scare the crap out of me. I think those pretty much end open source software on the internet. Requested response 6 looks like a call for forced updates. I would of preferred a call for a rule that prevents cell providers from holding up phone updates.
I never knew it was at the bottom and I use this site all the time. Thanks for pointing that out. However, it does raise some questions about the UI in this case. Can't we put the search box up in the header where people expect it to be?
Seneca was, therefore, wrong in his assessment (assuming that the English translation is entirely accurate.)
> Moreover I don't see how you can conclude on a whim what's possible to estimate and what is not

Yes, exactly. Like in so many cases, coming up with good values for the parameters is often the most difficult part of the analysis... that was exactly my point!

> Given these things take expertise in the relevant field and more than just casual analysis.

Except in this case, there are a lot of experts, and they all seem to be taking roughly the same approach.

> Finally, it's not like there is a small margin of error

It's not clear to me, at this point, what your assumptions even are. What percentage of those deaths would be prevented by self-driving technology? How many new types of accidents would be caused by self-driving technology? By what percentage would that number decrease if the regulatory environment were more friendly? And what's your basis for these numbers?

Also, it's perhaps telling that there really hasn't been a single example of regulators preventing self-driving up until this one, which is rather extreme. Google, Uber, and the scattering of startups and car companies have all taken a more cautious road to deployment of entirely their own making.

> and you're not even willing to consider that speeding up r&d might save a few lives?

There's a big difference between speeding up r&d and rushing unproven tech to market.
Since the days of stone tablets, the accessibility of information has only increased. But its volatility has also only increased.

On the flip side, a lot of the "information" on Reddit & al is just junk, about same value as pure noise.
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My theory, based on his response, is that:

1) Comma.ai is materially flawed at present; and
2) George Hotz knows about these flaws; and
3) George Hotz is upset because even basic questions will expose the problems in his broken product; and
4) George Hotz is a sociopath who would happily kill people if it'd give him a shot of flipping his company and pocketing an 8 or 9 figure pay day.

There is basically no chance that Comma works. If it did, they would've seen this coming, and handled it in literally _any_ other way.

And the notion of China having less regulation is laughable. Depending on who dies when Comma kills somebody, and the outcry that results, he's likely to end up facing a firing squad.
It's not so much doubt, but knowing enough to know there is so much you will not ever know without looking something up. C++ is a large language with a lot of dark corners. People who use it day in and day out know these dark corners exist. Even more so if they are working on a code base that many people have touched over many years.
I work in public policy. You realize what they said they had to clean up right? The president lied on television about his knowledge of the servers.
And in the case of the devices I mentioned, that will almost always be a dongle.

No thanks.
Because there is one critical characteristic in a private repository, and they failed to execute. Moving on-prem doesn't fix that failure, it just mitigates fallout.
Do you do a lot of your creative work right at the MBP keyboard/touchpad? I can't imagine doing too much highly creative/productive work without an external monitor and peripherals. I wonder if they will be building an external keyboard with the Touch Bar.
The worst bit about this is how they held it against you as well. I've had a similar experience (over much smaller amounts of money) and it caused nothing but trouble for me. Revealing your salary to your co-workers is just a good way to get them pissed off at you, or, possibly, you pissed off at them.
Never heard of these. Thanks for the link! Definitely looks very promising.
It could be useable, I don't want to dismiss it entirely without even trying it, but honestly the website's text has really turned me off, so I probably won't.
IMO just because it was the norm does not mean it's acceptable
Is their a historical precedent for something like this? (ie sitting president pardons incoming president?)
> Will virtual reality compete with museums or help them?

I'm going to go with "neither."
Our reach shouldn't be limited by our brains' capacity to comprehend, should it?
He said he doesn't recommend prosecution because he didn't believe there was a reasonable prosecutor that would do it. It's a huge load of horse shit. Hillary got off because she's well connected, not because there wasn't a case.
Their programming knowledge tests are very gimmicky questions where you often spend over half the time figuring out how to format the input because everything is read from standard in.
Try Dynalist also - https://dynalist.io

They took Workflowy and extended it (really started fresh, but that seems to be the idea)
>Honestly, I hate to say this, but we are past the point of laws here

In one breath, you express concern about the end of democracy, and in the next you disregard one of the vanguards of American government as if it's nothing. If we are indeed "past the point of laws here," then democracy has already ended.
Well, HackerRank is a relatively popular website, he spent a 3 month boot camp working in it, and the ranking system looks to be relatively decent at first glance, so I think its reasonable to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Edit: HackerRank looks like it measures aptitude more than anything.
Buying that company is what got them multitouch, which is what made the iPhone and iPad possible.

It's funny, but they're really just closing the loop on that acquisition by making a programmable keyboard.

By the way, a friend of mine had the Fingerworks (I use a Kinesis Advantage) and in the winter it would always go wonky because of static. He wound up having the company buy a humidifier... for his keyboard. I thought it was a neat idea (especially switching between typing and mousing by just sliding around) but I found the lack of feedback jarring and didn't fall in love with it.
Oh, stop. I don't like Hillary, but Trump says he'll contest a loss. That's what actual subversion of the process looks like. Everything you're bringing up is politics.

> Hillary intentionally subverted the democratic process by having the DNC work against Sanders.

Getting elected is a process of building key supporters, including within your own party.

> We have concrete evidence of her working with one of her PACs

All candidates do, and use some level of indirection to stay within the regulation. The regulation is toothless for campaign finance reform, so why get worked up about it.

> She has Obama, using tax payer money, campaigning for her

Outgoing presidents always campaign on behalf of their party's nominee.
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We use mnemonics, because we can't remember numbers as well, but to the compiler, addresses are pretty much like names.
An ex-colleague of mine used to say the difference between a software engineer and a real engineer is that the latter's signature is criminally binding.

We can refuse to be real engineers (it is a great responsibility), but then we should drop the title.
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100%. If comma.ai truly worked, he wouldn't have this response.
But you can't buy tickets (or anything else here) with BC? Buying them has never really been the issue, it's actually using them for something that's difficult.
Well, It is hard to know what is happening without more information. It seems you are applying to a right amount of jobs, it could be that maybe your CV doesn't stand up among other CVs. First thing I would is to improve the CV somehow, try to get feedback from recruiters or other people with experience looking for jobs. It must show you have built something by your own, so you can work on something related because you have already probe you can. If you don't have anything, them start spending sometime working in a pet project and put it open source in GitHub.

Other thing it can happen is that maybe you are not applying to the right places with the right CV, for example it doesn't make sense for me to apply to companies in france with a CV in english, but I would keep my LinkedIn in english. If you are looking for a job in London them you need to now the local websites the recruiters use for this. The are different per country. Do some research on this.

About sponsorship I think this could be the key factor too. I think it is almost impossible for a company justify a VISA for a junior profile. So first you need experience in your local market in order to not be a junior developer. If you want to do something abroad you might want to search for summer interships, summer camps or similar. But don't expect to make money with them, they barely cover the costs.
Yea this article seems like an obvious promotion for Hacker Rank and boot camps in general.

Nobody is becoming a "top ranked" Java developer in 3 months.

I say this as somebody who spent many years developing in Java, and I was not even close to being the best on my team.
Where did you learn that? I'm actually not disputing what you are saying I just didn't know. I understand that her email address wasn't a .gov address, but it could still (depending on the DNS MX record) identify a government controlled server. Couldn't it?
> How sure are you that your account info is absolutely secure enough to prevent that AND will remain so for the lifetime of your use of a specific cryptocurrency?

I'm not, and it's irrelevant because I only have a tiny fraction of my net worth in easily-accessible Bitcoin at any given time.

I'm not advocating replacing bank accounts with Bitcoin, I'm just showing that Bitcoin does solve real problems that traditional payment processors cannot or will not solve.
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