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Well storage space would first and foremost decline substantially as cars spend a huge amount of time on the road. So instead of sitting in a parking spot 23 hours a day, it would sit there maybe 6-8 hours a day (at night)

So where does it stay during those 6-8 hours? Well why not out in the streets in residential areas where it's as close as possible to people who would likely be commuting early in the morning. The streets would be fairly empty and it wouldn't be an issue because self driving cars would easily maneuver themselves.

This would be a scenario where all cars are owned by some organization (e.g. uber, the government, etc.) and then rented per trip by users. The result is cost savings for everyone involved.
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I remember when I first went to India and saw the traffic. My family would say that traffic in the US and Europe was more "streamlined."

You make some good points, as does this article. In the article though, I think at least some of these points will just involve more visual indicators on cars themselves that people will need to get use to (and yes, I do realize that won't solve many of the other class issues the author raises).

I have my own concerns. So much money, even tax money, is being poured into this tech that I don't see as viable for at least 7 ~ 10 more years. We could be building automated trains, which do exist, are viable and can operate even on late night runs without drivers or strikes. All of Singapore's lines are automated and several of London's are; both which have trains arriving on platforms at less than two minute intervals at peak hours.

Self driving cars also will not solve the capacity problem at all:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...

You'd have to have self-driving car only motoways to even being to approach the theoretical maximums of car capacity, and it still pails in comparison to train capacity, or even bus capacity for that matter.

The other thing I don't think people realize is that we (most likely) won't be owning self driving vehicles. I feel like if States get their acts together, we're going to need FAA style regulations. Cars need to be inspected at regular intervals to ensure all the sensors are functioning. Software updates need to be audited, and safety algorithms will need to be shared. I mean, do you want to live in a world where Audi claims their driving algorithms are safer than Nissan's, or Honda charging extra for more comprehensive sensor packages?

I don't think we can have a self driving where people own vehicles, which goes well against the OSS creed of "Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?"
Can you speak more to why you're so confident that this won't change within our lifetimes? I don't know how old you are, but my remaining lifetime is a pretty long time. It would have been impossible to predict the technological and legal conditions of today an equivalent number of years in the past. And I doubt we've gotten much better at predicting future advances.
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What a horrible waste of work that would be. In the sense that the energy and time taken from other road uses just for a little advertising would be obnoxious.

Adverts only continue to exist because they ultimately find the sweetspot between inconvenience and payoff. A road mobile billboard is inconveniencing everyone and the payoff is nil. In contrast to a YouTube advert where the payoff is the youtube video, a mobile billboard has no payoff.
I kind of wonder if there isn't more to this. Perhaps it's why Continuity [1] never fulfilled its full vision of moving seamlessly between iOS and macOS. Lack of support for third party apps, especially messaging apps, felt intentional.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_Yosemite#Continuity
Good thing they're protesting peacefully, unlike those Anti-Trump inauguration protestors, who were burning and destroying properties (cars, Starbucks, etc.).
What is the first answer referring to?

> i avg about 16% on every sale (>cough<…i mean 'loan') that i make
Simply because you are burning cash, doesn't mean that the value of your company is falling.

I know it's tempting to see it that way, especially since uber is as large as it is, but the winning strategy is also to survive as the dominant player until self-driving cars are commonplace.

Then you replace the drivers with cars, and thanks to your network you have a huge first mover advantage in the driverless taxi industry. It's during the initial period of this stage that you would see the most profits, and then as more companies enter the market you would begin to have to compete on price and quality.
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I don't think you can own a self driving car (or at least regulators shouldn't allow it). Safety updates and inspections need to be on the level of FAA plane inspections. I mean really, these cars should drive themselves to a service centre at least once a month. When you couple all those costs together, and the liability from car modification compromising self-driving hardware, I just don't see it as a viability safe option.
You say that your Dropbox password is a random string so I assume you don't remember it. How do you log in to Dropbox in this case?
This may be exactly the opposite way to look at it, but have a peek at [1] the One Straw Revolution. TL;DR: Masanobu Fukuoka was a scientist with an idea of using existing biological systems to reduce the amount of labour involved in farming. He created a very nearly zero-input farming system with the hope of enabling people to grow enough food to sustain themselves in their spare time.

Unfortunately, lots and lots of hype surrounded the project and reliable numbers of yield, etc, etc are probably not to be found. Still there have been lots and lots of similar initiatives with interesting results. I think you would need quite a lot of land for 100 people, but land is cheaper than robots (and is self repairing, and adds to your quality of life). I have a friend who grows all his rice and vegetables for the year in his spare time using Fukuoka's methods (he studied with him for a while). I helped him harvest once and I was quite surprised how well he was doing (easily as much yield as his neighbour's commercial farm). Farm land is trivial to get in Japan and you can often borrow enough to live off of in exchange for a bottle of whiskey or so per year.

[1] http://www.onestrawrevolution.net/One_Straw_Revolution/One-S...
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> Freeing humans from having to do the driving has a huge
> potential value

Except that it does not. What would have a value is getting rid of the need to be in traffic at all, no matter self or not self driving car you use.
> taking away much of the rest of advertising revenue from print, radio, and TV

TV advertising revenue continues to grow, and is still larger than online ad revenue.
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Yep, you reached me.
You're kidding me if you think software engineers are at the bottom of the ladder.

They are highly respected, well compensated, and get paid to work on interesting and challenging problems. In certain labour markets, money and perks are thrown at them.

I live very far from SV, and my job is certainly not as enjoyable as software development, and I can tell you with 100% conviction that there are much, much worse options out there.

I'm struggling to understand your viewpoint. You must have led a very [charmed/sheltered] life if you honestly believe that software engineers are lower than Egyptian slaves on the totem pole. I don't mean that as a personal dig at you, but comments like that rub me the wrong way when I would drag myself through broken glass and barbed wire to have the life of a Silicon Valley software dev.
Truly one of the dumbest concepts I've ever heard.

Calling it "lazy thinking" is probably generous.

No wonder Larry is pissed by all the moonshots. This one didn't have a chance, and I am sure the team members were pretty satisfied with themselves.

I am sad Goog killed off Fiber. I hope that taint of dumb project like Aria didn't contribute to its demise.
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Facebook also nailed cross-platform native and web.

I really like the messenger.com [1] version of the client.

[1]: https://www.messenger.com/
> E.g. the vendor won't sell [the source] to anyone unless the order size is six figures or greater

Note that this is illegal in GPL v2. It contains a clause to prevent exactly that kind of malicious behaviour:

> ... for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code ...

However, GPL v3 explicitly allows for that practice:

> You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee.
What about that part where all of our computers are riddled with zero-days, and wide open to shadowy government organizations with massive technical budgets, and the part where we weren't 100% cool with that.

And like, what about the part where we were worried about nefarious anonymous super hackers cyber-attacking the electric grid, and the gas grid, and other critical infrastructure, and we were worried about that sort of thing spiraling out of control into a federal emergency, because heat and potable water were taken down in the middle of winter, when a utility worker's laptop was spearphish hacked, because internet of things? I guess that can't happen anymore?

So now, right in the middle of this, the cars get to driver where ever they want because computers, and nothing can go wrong. One has nothing to do with the other, and we'll all be safe and totally okay, right?
How can he answer you? He still doesn't even understand how Trump won. Still believing that his polls are "real".
> ADHD seems to be simply a code word for prescribing amphetamines to people who are confronted by the genuinely boring reality of sitting in the same room with the same people who do nothing and go nowhere for years on end.

No. I have ADHD. The most obvious symptom has nothing to do with "being bored"—it's that I can't gather the motivation to practice any skill that I'm not already naturally good at, even when I really really want to be good at that skill. Similarly, I can't take care of pets, or even plants; I can't be anywhere on time; and I forget at least one thing I absolutely need to bring with me every time I leave the house. (Also, I'm absolutely never able to decide where to go to eat, rather than only unable to do so when worn out from work.)

Just as a clinically depressed person will still experience subjectively negative qualia even in a perfect world, a person with ADHD will be unable to remain focused on working toward even what they would subjectively consider the most wonderfully worthwhile goals.

ADHD medication allows me (that is, the part of my brain that holds my sense of identity) to take control of what "I" (that is, the part of my brain that decides whether things are worth doing right now) want to do with my life. If I (brain piece #1) am the rider of an extremely petulant horse (brain piece #2), the medication is a spur on the boot of #1, by which #2 can be brought to heel.

(Now, my case is probably unusual: I went to a psychiatrist after taking an ADHD self-assessment as an adult, rather than being diagnosed as a child. But I assure you that there is at least a core group of people within the "diagnosed with ADHD" group who, like me, consider their ADHD a thing they suffer from just as much as clinical depression is for those who have it, and would find it just as much of an obstacle to enjoying their lives even if they lived alone in a cabin in the woods.)
Even if the claim is true (that you can type faster), it will be a hardsell as it's too different from the current layout. It causes me to not be able to lend my phone to someone, etc. Same issue with drovak.

That's why swype/swiftkey which give a speed bump while retaining the current look and layout are the truly revolutionary ones, by simply utilizing the additional touch interactivity that modern tech enabled for them on top of a recognized layout.
Remotely connected AI with ~1MJ of KE? No thanks.
Relative to HN I'm probably an expert in ag. Relative to people who grow things I'm far from an expert. I was employee 3 at Blue River Technology and I've been there for four years: http://www.bluerivert.com

The way the Valley generally thinks of ag is completely broken and I highly recommend avoiding Valley people if you want to learn about it. "Fully automated" is a thing people who've never farmed before assume is possible and assume people who farm want.

There is a lot of value on the table in ag tech. Depending on what your objectives are, I recommend having as many face to face / dirty boots meetings w/ growers as you can. Understand the realities and nuance of their day to day and find a place where you can make their lives better. Ignore the sensational articles. Most "ag-tech" companies are comically detached from the realities of their intended customers.

If your goal is to grow things then follow the above advice w/ 10x the emphasis. Happy to help further. Contact in profile.
Yeah - indeed, remote control would be enough. There is a problem with latencies though - so you need at least some autonomy in the car. And then there is also the thing that if it is remotely controlled - then it is easy to stop it - just jam the communication link.
Thanks for this information. In my example, I was departing Amsterdam for the U.S.
It seems to me the autonomous car is a car for wealthy countries, where wages are high, personal time valuable and roads in good shape.
>Regardless, we have surveys showing the opinions of non-voters and Trump, at least a couple weeks ago, was at record levels of unpopularity among Presidents-elect.

They should have voted then. They didn't vote, and when the guy they don't like get voted into office, they get all angry. Well, they should have voted.

>...elected officials are compelled to and do respect the opinions of voters.

Trump does. He's going to implement his policies, since the voters have voted him to do so.
You can do all of that today in non-magical normal Ubers, and yet it still happens.
I'm not sure how one validates whether a VoIP number is being used for VoIP vs as a "real" phone number but this seems like a curious edge case.
We are working on a sort of "AWS for farming" concept here (http://www.habitat84.com/). The goal is not to make fully automated robot controlled farms, but rather to reach an appropriate level of abstraction such that farming systems can be controlled and scaled easily by users (who might be farmers, but also others). The goal is to develop a platform on which to ultimately solve the problems of food production in space.
The first link in the FAQ is broken, should be:

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Good point about India! I wonder how a self-driving car would handle someone coming towards you on the wrong side of a divided highway, or know how to get a cow out of the middle of a crowded street..
I graduated with a music degree and have been a professional programmer for twenty years... I have honestly never really seen programming as an art. Not in that sense. It's got some elements in common with different kinds of music, like how you choose to make it balanced and cohesive I guess, but to me it's kind of a pale shade of musical artistry.

If you're performing, it requires you to tap into some sort of "being in the moment" type of flow that is almost the opposite of deep-programming flow. You have to be aware of the present moment while also interacting with the present moment. Getting "into the zone" while programming, if applied to performing music, is a great way to lose listeners. And if you're performing with others, you'll screw up the ensemble.

If creating/writing, music requires a kind of delving-for-inspiration I almost never have to do while programming. Early 2016 I had to solve a programming problem that didn't fit any previous patterns and wasn't googleable, and I solved that in a kind of lateral-thinking flash of inspiration, so that's somewhat close, but it's still rare compared to normal programming practice... and even then, in programming those flashes are less personal.

Programming is enjoyable in the sense that it's like both solving puzzles/problems and sometimes tending a zen rock garden. You think, you solve, you clean. And to a degree, you express. I don't really think that clears the bar of artistic, but it is manifestation and it is satisfying and it is sometimes personal so that's good too.
What about that part where all of our computers are riddled with zero-days, and wide open to shadowy government organizations with massive technical budgets, and the part where we weren't 100% cool with that.

And like, what about the part where we were worried about nefarious anonymous super hackers cyber-attacking the electric grid, and the gas grid, and other critical infrastructure, and we were worried about that sort of thing spiraling out of control into a federal emergency, because heat and potable water were taken down in the middle of winter, when a utility worker's laptop was spearphish hacked, because internet of things? I guess that can't happen anymore?

So now, right in the middle of this, the cars get to drive wherever they want because computers, and nothing can go wrong. One has nothing to do with the other, and we'll all be safe and totally okay, right?
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You may be thinking of FaceTime. Apple was going to open that, but a successful lawsuit by a patent troll (I think it was VirnetX) put a stop to that, because Apple had to change FaceTime to proxy through their own servers, which meant that opening it up wouldn't do any good.

That said, VirnetX has also sued Apple about iMessage, so it's possible there's something to what you've said (but I've never heard it said before that Apple was going to open up iMessage).
I think there's a personality trait that's really useful in programming, which is to be pessimistic in the short term and optimistic in the long term.

What I mean by that is that you don't expect some thing you just wrote to work the first time, and maybe not the second or third, and so on. But you expect that you'll eventually figure it out and it will work.

A short-term optimist would become discouraged by their expectations not being met over and over, while the long-term pessimist would not be sustained through the hard parts by imagining how happy they'll be when they made their thing work.

I think programming either repels people who are short term optimists or long term pessimists, or the process of learning to code transforms them into short term pessimists and long term optimists.
I have a friend who is an artist that spent the last 10 years working on his painting skills. I observed one interesting parallel between developing skills as a painter and as a programmer based on conversations with him.

Beginning painters tend to get overly focused on very small details without having a good understanding of how they are bringing the painting as a whole together. They spend too much time on these details, whereas advanced painters are able to move very quickly with faster strokes. It's pretty amazing to see a painting where the strokes don't make sense when you look at them one-by-one, but the overall effect truly reflects something from reality.

I found this to be true also with inexperienced developers. We focus on the latest trends, micro-optimizations, coding styles, and "small" details that are easier to master -- yet we struggle with the bigger picture things like delivering a product quickly.

Kind of like the saying "you can't see the forest for the trees". (You focus on the incidental details, but not the larger purpose)

On a slightly different note, I have several friends who are writers and I have found programming to be very similar to writing a novel. You have to construct a coherent world that "compiles", e.g. the characters interactions are consistent and make sense; each character has a role in the story like a component in a program would have; simplicity and directness tend to be more effective than ornateness; small changes in one part of a dialogue can have cascading changes across the rest of the storyline, much like a refactoring gone wrong.
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I pay about 1200 a year. I have full health benefits, defined benefit pension, and 7 hour work day. If I want (and I do) I can work an extra 49 minutes per day, and take every second Friday off. I start with 15 days holiday, but after working there for 8 years now, I'm up to 22 days holiday (plus 13 stat holidays, and 26 extra days in lieu of those 49 minutes). Any overtime has to be pre-approved, and is paid out at time and a half. If it's over a stat holiday it's at 2.5. Never need to negotiate pay raises because pay is set for the position. Union negotiates the pay raises for cost of living increases. There are benefits and drawbacks, I wouldn't trade the time off though for more money.
While we're at it, is there any open source self-hosted alternative to LastPass etc.?

At this point we'd even go so far as just using a good Keepass Client that comes with a comfortable "send encrypted password blob to xy email, than call him and tell him this decryption password"-function.
Have you? So what does it send back?
I think most of it is highly unlikely...
I don't commute to work by car so for my occasional use of getting groceries, going out to eat, getting a haircut or doing the occasional shopping, I don't spend anywhere near that much.

- $40 for insurance

- $30 gas

- $5 (Maintenance)

$75/month on my end. If I were to UberPOOL everywhere, besides the fact that it would be inconvenient because it would take longer and I would have to share a ride, it would cost more.
> and bugs have been conquered

I can't get a bug free desktop OS after 40 years of development, what chance a fully automated vehicle?
Why this over the Tor Browser?
"Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?"

"The new, maintenance-free iCar! So reliable, we welded the hood shut!"

Add a better copywriter, and an actual product, and I think a lot of people would buy that. Same with car-as-service. A lot of people don't actually want to own a car, they just want the transport capabilities and convenience.
Yes, that's a good few years ago. Stability issues were mostly fixed around 8 years ago. It's now very stable. There are products like www.severalnines.com and MySQL Manager to setup and manage instances for you with a UI.
If you want to roll your own, there are chef cookbooks for installing ndb - https://github.com/hopshadoop/ndb-chef .

But if you really want to squeeze performance out of it, read Mikael's blog:
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and Frazer's blog:
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how have you used it?