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>Although it's comforting that this exact situation shouldn't happen again in an Uber autonomous car.

Let me ask something. Did it take a human life to show that "a pedestrian crossing unexpectedly" is a probably thing to happen while driving? I mean, seriously?

Maybe they have trained the cars for this, but this particular incidence was just different enough, which means that your initial implication will not hold ie "Although it's comforting that this exact situation shouldn't happen again in an Uber autonomous car" given that no two situations are exactly the same, and it won't apply even for similar situations...
Did some custom AutoCAD software for CAT back in the late 1990s. Their IT department auto-deleted our package, had to drive our tech back to Illinois to re-install it.
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See my post: https://www.facebook.com/mstefanow/posts/10156280067194886

Since when NO NEWS is NEWS?

"Why is any of this news? My understanding is that companies harvesting social networking data via viral apps and then reselling it to perform targeted voter advertising is literally a 10 year old concept."

Other team didn't realize such thing as the internet exists?

(I'm outraged that this thing hit the news, as if it wasn't something already known)
Is this the thing that is new again now?
A book on the topic quotes:

> "Note that the people drive the speed they feel comfortable with regardless of the posted speed limit if enforcement is not present"

- ref: https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=tF7uyw7feOMC&pg=SA13-PA1...

And a paper:

- "PEOPLE DRIVE THE SPEED THEY ARE COMFORTABLE WITH ON GRAVEL ROADS REGARDLESS OF SPEED LIMIT, K-STATE RESEARCHERS SAY"

- https://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/april09/speedlimi...
Comparing the campaign spending does not capture the (vast) amounts of money spent by PACs. Indeed, one would expect Democrats to have more small-money, campaign donors, as opposed to large-dollar PAC donors.

I'm not satisfied with the off-hand dismissal of outside spending from the linked article. Since 2010, this has (arguably) been the more interesting area to scrutinize, and deserves more than a sentence.
I agree with you in principle, but I'm not sure how feasible this given that I literally can't think of how to implement it. Political advocacy groups use complex hierarchies of shell companies and revolving payments to get money from super-donors into advertising. FB can't just release an invoice saying something like (Payment: 106,000; Sender: Robert Mercer) or "paid for by the Russian Federation". It would say things like "paid for by the Committee to Improve America", which receives money from the Pro-Families Committee, funded by the Traditionalists Group, an advocacy arm of the Peers Think Tank, which has ~100s of wealthy donors.
Maybe not but there are plenty of companies who don’t say their company is competitive.
As a startup founder who moved to the Bay area and moved back. I can see why, literally I own a house, with better internet, 5 minutes from a store, with no traffic, no distractions, and can communicate with anyone online...

Honestly, location matters to an extent, but it's really what you make of it. I know people across the country, they intro me to others. Many I never meet in person, yet we all help one another. I think it's more than possible to grow connections in the absence of presents, just harder.
I have usually found Uber to be cheaper in Bangalore. Also in my experience, I find car/drivers better for Uber compared to Ola. I have never tried the wifi or entertainment systems.
Purely anecdotal, but as someone learning Clojure I never post to SO. The slack channel is active enough to get an answer fast and to be honest SO is not a nice place to ask dumb questions.
There is no inherent equality between humans and machines. Is it conceptually difficult to grasp that machines can be held to a different standard?
How is that free though? You have to fire more rays for each moving object. That's not cheap. And the only thing you get is variable accuracy collision detection.
Are there any reports that NYC police actually do or have done that?
The difference is that other languages (like the ones you mentioned) are actually quite accommodating when it comes to indulging developer abstraction fetishes, whereas you will be punished for trying to do so in Go.
Aren't animated movies pretty much universally ray traced?
is walmart representative of 75 percent of jobs out there?
I mean self-preservation instincts, not driving instincts. I agree totally with the later!

By self-preservations instincts what I mean is that most people will try to be as safe as possible on the road, meaning drive slower on low-visibility situations, when there are many pedestrians around, etc. You cannot account on unforeseen circumstances or lack of knowledge, but otherwise people will try very hard not to get into harm's way.
because he actually looked aT data?
> But I'm happy to hear a good justification of why it's important to have both structs and interfaces, if there is one.

Performance is a good reason. If you are familiar with Java or C#, Go interfaces can be seen from one point of view as boxing (i.e. making a primitive value an object). Think what that would require: vtables for function dispatch.

A bunch of inlining opportunities cannot happen with that (well, it can, if you allow for name mangling during your compile phase, but that's very gross). JIT is the second fix to that, but with JIT, you're bringing in a lot of unpredictability - useful in some contexts, not so in others.

Perhaps you are fine with the "Everything Is An Object/Function" paradigm, but I'm not entirely fine with that.
It doesn't seem to happen in practice. The companies could test in 3rd world countries but none have as far as I'm aware.
Id rather the cars travel at safer speeds than an arbitrary speed limit which is 99% of the time unsafe.
I grew up in Fishers, and currently go to Purdue (an hour north). I can say from what I've seen that tech really is coming here, it isn't trying anymore. I know there is a lot of 'Silicon Valley of X', but I don't think Indy is trying to be the next Silicon Valley. It feels like the people here are content at solving problems big and small, and not as focused on capital and business. Personally I think this a good thing, and prefer it. And of course as the article states, a little Midwest politeness pervades the area.

Salaries are also way higher in the area then they used to be (expect maybe $50,000-60,000 in the area, at least for new grads in the area for larger name companies). It's not SV wages, but it's not city living either, and the area is great.

To follow some of the people in the area, I'd look at @DonWettrick [0] on twitter, he's an educator in the area and a lot of his students are a part of Launch Fishers and are coming into the local start up scene. If you care about the next generation, definitely a class to keep up with!

[0] https://twitter.com/DonWettrick
That problem is normal and expected behaviour for finite precision floating point: it appears with any scheme for floating point (IEEE-754 or not), as computers are finite. A significant chunk of the field of numerical analysis is about controlling the error introduced by floating point.

And, anyway, R uses IEEE-754 for 'numeric' too[0], and will do the same "fudging":

> All R platforms are required to work with values conforming to the IEC 60559 (also known as IEEE 754) standard

There's fair criticisms that JS may not offer the required control over rounding modes that R (or the C libs underlying R) provide or the necessary instructions to minimise error accumulation, but general handwavings about "fudging" of floating point don't apply: floating point is unavoidably imprecise, and R and JS even use the same basic format.

[0]: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/doub...
If you put Charles Murray in the same category as flat earth fools then I dont know what your references are.
I don't know anything about the particulars here, but this explanation seems very strange? Do NYT have someone on the staff at New Yorker magazine to make sure they never get scooped by a weekly?
Thanks for clarifying, and the link! Actually a really interesting read.
Ah, that's why you write your abstract implementations in Haskell, and then rewrite them in Go ;P
"Zuckerberg believes that Facebook will connect people and change the fabric of society and communities for good.." is marketing speak. What does Zuckerberg believe? Nobody knows that except Zuckerberg. But I really doubt it's that.

You don't even need to look at meta-effects of Facebook. Look at how it operates, in effect. It splits people into mutually exclusive echo chambers that are falling increasingly far away from reality in terms of median ideological view. Far from connecting people social media has become, arguably, the single biggest factor in societal division in modern history. People even speak of this casually without realizing the implications of what they're saying - 'I can't believe what [non echo chamber approved views] my [friend/family member/acquintance/etc] has. Unfriending!' Of course these views and differences always existed, but in typical social interaction agreeing to disagree on issues is fine. In the social media era, people have started to condemn people over any failure to abide group ideology. It's cult like behavior without the formality.

There's no way in the world you can possibly spin this into a positive or unifying force for society. You've even had founders and executives of speak out against the social harm the company is causing. The point of this is that there's no 'algorithmic veneer' protecting YouTube and Facebook, and I strongly doubt Zuckerberg himself has any delusions about what he's doing. Even most users themselves could easily reason that Facebook is a net negative. But they enjoy and/or are addicted to the services, so they keep using it. It's slot machines on a global scale, where instead of inserting coins - you insert your personal information and get that dopamine rush when somebody likes or otherwise interacts with you.

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As for employees - you'll never make a company change from the bottom up. Most people don't work for ideologies - they work for money. And Facebook has deep enough pockets to ensure that they'll never suffer for a lack of employees.
I don't think that is your average American! At least I hope not ;)
yes, you can get rid of that quite easily though and preserve your viewing privacy (LG collect all they can on you as well). You just have to block your TV's MAC address at the router.
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I was thinking more superconducting floating maglev with underground power transfer, but whatever floats your boat (rail...)
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In the Indian market, Ola does a few things better than Uber. For example, they have an OTP, which is a 4-digit numerical code you need to provide to the driver at the start of every ride. In a low-trust market like India, this is instrumental in helping certain people pre-pay for this sort of service. Secondly, they've long had more options than Uber in types of service they provide: ie, rickshaw, car rentals, etc. And finally, they've also recently introduced ola credit, which is really convenient for me as I take short, low-cost rides to and fro work, and credit is sufficient to allow me to pay at one go at the end of the week.

There is a perception that Ola has a lower quality of drivers in the Indian market, but I doubt such a thing would be replicated in Australia. That said, I've gotten quite a few stinkers from both services, so I'm sure that the bias in Indian middle/upper-middle classes against native companies plays strongly into the perception of Ola drivers as worse than Uber.
PoS is currently being implemented in Ethereum. Software Engineering Daily aired an interesting episode with one of the Ethereum contributers last week about the state of PoS in that project:

https://play.radiopublic.com/software-engineering-daily-6NkL...
The point is that if someone runs in front of your car, physics dictates that you can't stop a 1,000+ pound vehicle on a dime. You can lock the brakes up and stop the axle from moving (ABS braking won't actually allow this usually) and the car will still continue forward for some time. In addition many other avoidance strategies won't work. Sure, you could swerve, but what's in your path then?

Machines don't get tired or bored, they don't screw around with the radio or put on eyeliner, or get distracted by text messages. They have other issues but we hope they'll be less prevalent.
It's not unknown for people to crash and burn to avoid hitting squirrels. And with modern airbag systems, it's arguably safer for all concerned for cars to risk hitting poles, and even trees. But on the other hand, once leaving the roadway there's the risk of hitting other pedestrians.
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Do you think it is related to the weight of the HoloLens? I find that many people feel uncomfortable after 20 minutes of use. And at least one person got a headache using it.
Yeah but the tech will spread there fairly soon after it's established in the US. In places like Africa the most common cars are not some African brand, they seem to mostly be Toyotas, who will probably implement self driving when it's proven.
It’s interesting that so many people in the earlier post first reporting on this topic were very quick to rush to judgement.
An important observation is that the probability of death drops very rapidly with drops in speed. A rough calculation shows that at 38 mph and a near instant reaction (as a robot should) would within ~1 second of applied breaking force, allow going from a ~70% chance of death to ~5%.

A very rough calculation: v(t) = -μgt + v_0. To reach 32 kph or 20 mph, t ~= 0.82/μ, guessing a fair μ=0.8 and the chart here https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/knowle...
iOS and Android both don't support DirectX, so the hardware technically being compatible is irrelevant, especially with Windows Phone now discontinued.
And yet didn't one collapse in Florida just the other day?
> There is no traffic "around" them, just the car behind.

How about when merging, or changing lanes? The speed limit is not _always_ safe or practical to obey strictly.
Point taken - thanks, makes sense. There is more info available on the App Store page but you are correct that the website could be more informative. We'll look to update in the future.
First, I agree propaganda is not always false, but if you read a post I made earlier, you'll see that the reason's it's a problem is that it controls narratives and creates curated biases that give people inaccurate beliefs (e.g. by focusing heavily on single small issues to further a controversy). For example, consider that Russia created fake BLM-related twitter accounts to stoke tensions and drive controversy on both sides of the issue: http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/examining-trolls-polar.... This is somewhat different, less propaganda and more astroturfing, but the effect is the same regarding propaganda: to direct the narrative into something convenient for those behind the strings.

Outlawing political advertising is not what I propose. I believe propaganda is different in its intent: in my opinion direct disinformation or dishonesty (with intent) would be a sufficiently high barrier, given that it would require a high barrier of proof that the supporters were seeking to manipulate opinion with lies. This would ensure nobody would be prosecuted except in the most egregious of cases. I also believe this could be a valid exception to the first amendment in the same vein as libel or slander: spreading false information, with intent, possibly for personal gain. The parallels certainly exist.

Furthermore, I believe I would be just outraged if Hillary did this, and I think this is a pointless distraction. I didn't vote for her and I know that she also had her own shady internet propagandists working too. I think we should do our best to make sure political discussions happen organically, from real people.
Not really - rebel also has a slightly negative connotation.

How it sounds of depends if you are the empire, a Jedi or a sports fan.

In general I’ve seen ola fight tooth and nail against Uber by focusing on the vagaries and niches of the Indian market.

They took the fight to the a much stronger competitor. They couldn’t win on just funding advantages so kept carving out areas which Uber has not considered.

I’m betting Uber learnt a lot from that fight.

Let’s see how they fare in Australia. Wishing them
Well.
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That's why we need safeguards in place. Everyone was happy when Obama used it and never thought it can be used by someone else too.

Edit: Someone linked this below - http://adage.com/article/moy-2008/obama-wins-ad-age-s-market...
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Sensor Fusion typically merges LiDAR with stereoscopic camera feeds, the latter requiring ambient light.
I think you're confusing end-to-end control with end-to-end construction.

They don't care if they are the ones putting the screw in the whole, they want to know that they are the ones making the screw. It may seem like a small difference, but it is an important distinction.
Its sad that you think that. Election campaigning and selling products shouldn't be different. What we need to be fighting is false claims.
Sure, and in my opinion we should make (knowingly) spreading disinformation in political contexts illegal, just as we have made spreading disinformation in financial contexts illegal. To me there seem to be almost direct parallels between the two, and I (without a law degree, of course) believe knowingly spreading misinformation could use similar arguments as libel and slander as precedents for its relationship with the first amendment

I agree that we need better education or something of the like to also work towards hardening people against propaganda, but I don't see these different approaches to the same problem as mutually exclusive. And while I would want more funding / different methods to be explored in education independently of this, and believe it could yield amazing benefits for society as a whole, I recognize that the first option might be more cost effective
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+1. Calling this speeding is willful ignorance of the practical flow of traffic everywhere in the country.
>The self-driving Volvo SUV was outfitted with at least two video cameras, one facing forward toward the street, the other focused inside the car on the driver, Moir said in an interview.

>From viewing the videos, “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway,” Moir said. ( https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Exclusive-Tempe... )

Not saying the software wasn't partly at fault but it doesn't look that clear cut. It sounds like better sensors could have helped.
Fortnite is 3rd-person though, maybe you meant shooters in general?
>Urgh. That's such a basic leadership thing (scold in private) that it just infruiates me that someone wouldn't get that.

Reminded :) Russian military officer training - when you tear a new one to your subordinate, you have to do it in front of his peers, and that is the most important part of the process. The course was taught by a colonel with PhD in psychology.
You don't seem to drive. If you don't follow traffic flow, people will cut off in front of you, tailgate, zigzag, and do other dangerous lane changes/maneuvers much more frequently. And that's when the trigger-happy ones don't yell obscenities at you.
> The implication I took away from this is that economic conditions are the direct result of "a choice that society has made". This is, IMO, far too simplistic.

This argument you have ascribed to me is beyond simplistic. It's economically illiterate. Cartoonish.

> You are correct that you've never said verbatim "the economy can be changed by dicta", but the implication I took from your post is that you believe it can, by, e.g., saying "corporations are no longer people" and expecting this to mean something.

This other argument which I am supposedly advancing is likewise, idiocy.

> That's not how substantive disagreements work -- it's how blind tribalism works.

> That doesn't portend equality, it portends fascism.

You were never having a substantive disagreement with me, but with some fictional fascist out to change the world through immoral means to achieve unrealistic goals for preposterous reasons.

Responding point-by-point to all the caricatures in those voluminous posts is a fool's game. I have faith that readers worth reaching will interpret the exchange correctly without needing me to straighten things out.

> I'm merely making the case that changing economies is not just a matter of issuing dicta and expecting everyone to willingly comply or conditions to magically shift (e.g., corporations are no longer people anymore, and therefore ... ???). That is a highly simplistic view.

That's all so obvious it doesn't need to be said.

Strip away all that, and the value judgment is what's left. It's commonly held and consequential -- so worth engaging.
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What on earth makes you think they "targeted friends"? What does that even mean? Did they spam friends with unwanted emails and phone calls? Did they try to propagandize friends with ads targeted to certain demographics? Did they literally light up the friends with green lasers?
Facial recognition at US airports becomes a routine
The Mindstorms that I remember (~2004, on the RCX 2.0) was nothing like LabVIEW; I haven't played with Scratch, but from what people have shown me of it, it is very similar to how I remember Mindstorms.
I don't like any of those. I do my best to avoid being manipulated by ads. And I especially avoid political ads. I want unbiased information for choosing.

Restricting political advertising is not such an unprecedented concept. The risks are just too fundamental.
Just for posterity; most cars are > 3000 lb

The volvo XC90 (car used by Uber ~ 4400lb before you add their HW)
Very True. We are solution partners of Zoho, and have used Zoho Creator to develop really complex workflows for our customers involving inbuilt/custom integrations. I would say Deluge (Creator's scripting language) is its strength on top of being a flexible low code platform, which I haven't come across elsewhere yet.
If the language were better, they would have learned the good practices while they learned the language, and they wouldn't even be able to express bad practices without extra effort.
I use SumatraPDF and it looks ok. Maybe the size of the font as well as the type isn't the best but it's legible.