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This backfires badly in places with cold winter climates where the offical road markings and edges become obscured due to snow and ice for days and sometimes seasons (road edge creep) at a time.

Human drivers don't follow the official lane markings because they can't be seen. They follow the paths in the snow everyone else has packed down. These paths often diverge from the road markings or any sort of absolute positioning system.
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Yeah, I think engineer types tend to underestimate how much our training enables us to quickly reason about, and then simply accept, complexity.

Pretty much anything that is remotely considered a barrier to your sign up or checkout process costs you sales; having questions or needing to spend time deciding which position on a chart you want to purchase from is time you are giving people to decide maybe they don't actually want to sign up.
Also a good resource to learn more [PDF]: https://strengejacke.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/introductio...

The author of those slides is Daniel Lüdecke, who created Zkn3.
AWS mechanical turk that shit. :) Yeah, probably not 30fps...
Wow! Thanks for all the replies. Glad other people found this silly idea interesting.

A lot of the issues that were brought up have to do with fees associated with purchasing all the stocks and the fact that you would have to buy very small fractional shares. Certainly big issues today but they don't sound like showstopper problems to me.

And to the folks criticizing my lazy use of the term "open source" - I apologize. I should know better using that phrase on hacker news!

To clarify: clearly the market weighted index process is a well known and very simple algorithm. What I meant by "open source" was a tool that can employ that market weighting process and handle all of the financial transactions necessary to execute all of the trades.
How is the ability to leave at your own time, have your own dedicated cabin, and ability to stop nearly anywhere, even in the same ballpark as a Tram...?
> (ii) the university's endowments if alumni decrease their donations.

The tax law says you aren't supposed to be able to deduct contributions to charitable organizations if you get something in return.

Edit: Point being that this system is illegitimate in the first place, not that it doesn't happen.
Exactly. Using Mars as a second example is basically just doubling down on the "Elon isn't trustworthy" argument. That should be a giant red flag to readers.
>The problem with complete automation is how accidents are perceived

I don't think so. Airplane autopilot automates away the safe, boring parts of air travel, much like highway driving, so in that sense I agree with you. Truly autonomous landing is still a big deal, and planes that the benefit of ATC, and I don't think there are any planes that taxi or takeoff autonomously. Furthermore, accidents involving autopilot are always at the edge, when control changes from computer to human unexpectedly or when the human has to take over the autopilot in less than ideal conditions. I don't think there's much perception in the public eye of "robot pilots killing people"

I think once autonomous driving accidents go through the courts a few times, the same will happen to cars. After another decade of development and legislation, people will die not because the robot made a mistake per-se, but because it encountered a situation it can't cope with and the human wasn't ready to take over in an emergency, or because the robot tried to cope with the emergency situation the wrong way and the human didn't notice in time and took over too late (if at all). This may still sound like the computer making a mistake, but the subtle difference is that the mistake is made in an extraordinary situation, as opposed to the current accidents that happened in regular driving conditions. I think this subtle distinction will be enough for the PR people to spin the blame away from the manufacturer.

Call my cynical, but I can also see successful lobbying efforts in the future by corporations to reduce liability in class-4 and lower autonomous car accidents involving unusual situations, citing the fact that the driver should have been paying attention and taken over.

That aside, road safety is better than ever these days, with a lot of what would have been fatal accidents being merely property damage due to modern safety systems, and highway driving is probably the safest kind of driving out there, thus it is not clear to me (and I have no data either way, I don't think a study has ever been done) that current offerings (Tesla et al.) are any safer compared to similarly priced modern luxury cars per mile driven, and I'm not sure that will change in the future. The only reason I see for adopting highway autopilot is not safety but comfort. You might argue that comfort contributes to safety and enables longer driving times, but driving for 8 to 12 hours is pretty safe regardless, and I don't think I could do more than that even if I was a passenger.

This is a bit of a controversial opinion, but I don't think we will see a meaningful reduction in fatal accidents or serious injuries due to self-driving cars for a long time, but I do think we will see a reduction in accidents involving only property damage or minor injuries from low to medium speed accidents, and I see a sharp decrease in parking-lot scrapes and dings in the near future. Low to medium speed streets and tight maneuvers is where I see most "bad" human drivers have the most trouble and already things like parallel parking assist are a godsend to these people.
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> I don‘t understand why people keep buying these inkjet scam printers.

Flexibility. If my daughter wants to print something on photo paper for a craft she is doing, I can print right now and she can continue her work instead of having to find time to go to a store and wait. We switched from Laser to Inkjet.
I think at some point we'll hit a saturation point on passively managed funds. What they're really doing is edging out the non profitable actively managed funds, and forcing managers to prove they can beat the market if they want investment. I also think we'll see more brokerages starting their own indices, which will lessen the power of any individual fund
The world is not the USA. The legal system that exist in the US is different in other places of the world.

With a self driving car you know exactly what happened in an accident as video and telemetry is recorded. This is a tremendous advantage over having to reconstruct it without this data.

On the contrary I expect legislation forcing every car to include telemetry like the Chinese are forcing every car to be connected.

This accident's data is evidence, not opinion, not a belief, not a prejudice.

The usefulness of this has already been proven with airplanes.
I agree in part in that I am skeptical that full self-driving cars will happen in the next few years, but he is completely wrong when it comes to the long term. Not only will the tech get as good as humans, but most forget to account for the fact that the environment will meet the cars part way. We will eventually update markings and beacons on the roads to make it easier for the cars, implement networks in which the cars can talk to each other, and make special lanes for self-driving cars only, among other improvements that will make it easier for the cars. Eventually non-self-driving cars will not be allowed on the road, and will be a niche hobby on race tracks.
> I’m imagining how gross a taxi would be that doesn’t have a driver to provide passengers a low level of behaviour moderation.

I've talked to a number of uber drivers. The cameras recording the passengers are a much greater inhibitor of bad behavior than the driver.
Thank you for your response.

I suppose I'm coming to grips with the security (and maybe more about privacy) implications of Cloudflare's immense popularity.

The fact that both Cloudflare and GitLab are so up front, open and transparent about the compromises and advantages involved does ease my worry somewhat.

That's a good point about the upside for GitLab users, that a potentail breach at CF would be limited to that layer, and not GitLab itself.

All in all, the article (and your explanation) has convinced me that this is a net positive.

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EDIT: To be honest, the point about Cloudflare being able to inspect HTTPS traffic still doesn't sit well with me. I suppose I'll need to study deeper how this works, before I'm persuaded.
:) I would not be surprised if there was great overlap. Probably correlates with people who throw their cigarette butts on the sidewalk. :P
>We could say that now about automobiles.

Indeed we can which is why some cities on the planet have gone carless and more and more opposition is mounting in the face of traffic deaths, pollution and so so on. Even in the US, maybe the most car dominated country in the world, there is a political revival of talks about high speed rail and alternative forms of transportation.

The other important difference being that the step from having no cars at all to having cars was one of the largest leaps in mobility in human history. Self-driving cars are nice, but not that much of a leap, and they have much more ambiguous implications when it comes to the job-market. They will face significantly larger hurdles with significantly less payoff in sight.
HomeKit stuff will do that with an Apple TV acting as a hub. Once configured, you can then remote-control stuff from iOS devices connected to the same account or 'family' (once you turn on 'Allow Remote Access'). The list of supported devices isn't huge, but the certification comes with some useful guarantees, like not being dependent on the manufacturer's cloud service to work.

They have a full list of specific supported devices here: https://www.apple.com/ios/home/accessories

The devices on the list that act as hubs also carry that support across to anything else they control; for example, the Philips Hue Bridge lets you treat a lot of Zigbee 3.0 lights/switches as if they were native HomeKit devices.
Self-driving cars will of course increase congestion because it will be possible just to chill out and do something else while car is driving itself. In Silicon Valley normal story will be “I worked in the car for 3 hours while commuting to the office”.
I don't know about Israel but VWs ride-sharing service in Germany is MOIA
IoTco T&C: If we go bankrupt, we'll open source the app.

Mandatory.
Or just the friction of "do I really want to pay $0.05 for this?"

LOL, that's so obvious in retrospect: if something costs so little, it's because you probably don't need it. Minor annoyances, even the mere decision, and you won't bother.
It's for India's internal market. Ever seen bids made on Upwork/Freelancer by Indians? Thousands per minute and just for few dollars only. Basically they spam 1000 potential clients in hope one will bite. And then you get the horror stories on all forums. That's why Upwork invented connects, to stop this flood.

So I guess this guy wanted to do something legit in connecting Indian clients with Indian freelancers and get peanuts on the side from each. $80k/month is huge in India, but compared to tens of millions that Upwork makes is drop in an ocean. Good luck to him though
Sounds like M1 finanace’s pies to me. Since M1 has fractional shares, creating your own index is relatively easy even with little capital.
That and a set of wikis should have made my list.
Heck. With Toyota building a city of the future. They might make self driving cars entirely common once you are free to design roads for them.
VPN organizations have a few characteristics i've noticed:

1) they're fairly cheap to run, so groups spin up from nowhere fast.

2) due to being cheap to run, they seem to gather industry newcomers with little experience who are seeking a low-hanging-fruit first project.

3) they have a quick business 'period'. They come fast and they go fast. Probably due to the low-experience and extreme competition in that sector.

4) they consolidate quickly into large groups, and those large groups are fairly fast to buy up smaller competition in an effort to control commodity price.

>What if the government is offering up these servers for dirt cheap to VPN providers purposefully, and that is why they are all using them?

I guess that's just dependent on the threat model you're abiding by. Most casual vpn-as-a-business isn't going to do much to protect from state level adversaries, anyway.

The same phenomenon has happened in the US on the vpn market a few times now. I haven't checked recently, but a good chunk of exit structure was owned by London Trust Media last time I checked, a group that's affiliated with PIA and KAPE.

I can appreciate the suspicion. I think that it's warranted; but personally i'm of the opinion that the market consolidation is more due to the nature of the product and the market that it exists within. Whether or not a state group is gaming that consolidation.. I would suspect yes, but hold no proof.
Agreed, if a self driving car hits me and breaks my neck, who do I sue to pay my bills and care? The driver? The car manufacturer? Or the self driving software company? Right now with a driver its clear.
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If it works it could be so much better in many ways. It's like a packet switching network instead of circuit switching. And there's no reason larger vehicles couldn't be part of this "packet-switched" vehicle network and act as a virtual public transport system.
Nice stuff. I personally use a second cloud deployment of a cluster for dev testing :) but it’s good to be able to run stuff offline so qudos
> They built light rail that nobody can use, because it doesn’t go to where people need to go.

A friend of mine spent some time in LA. He remarked that transit took you to other transit and not much else. Having only flown through LA once, I have no other direct context.

Is his assessment fair?
I think the internet as such was thought of linked document, which comes very close to that concept
It’s basically a virtual tandem semi. The presumption is that you are delegating command and control to the lead vehicle, and there is bidirectional communication between the lead and follow vehicles.
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That is a bit American centric. The value of self driving cars for society will be the ability to optimize existing road infrastructure. Cars can travel more closely together, can cooperate to work out bottlenecks, and so on. Think about the traffic problems Beijing is having, and that’s the huge opportunity for self driving tech.
1) well I may be cutting corners but to me lisp is vastly about sexp and encoding of interpretation in sexps.

that commonlisp advocates for some linear looping constructs is one thing but, to me, it's only a thin part of the top of the iceberg

2) nothing wrong to me, but I suppose that to the mainstream, if you had to pick between sexps, lambdas and treerec idioms over perl regexes or php arrays/templating, or jQuery dom shenaningans .. it probably look too dry to bear any value (culture shock)

Again, that's only my opinion :)
Sure.
It generally goes like this: they think they want another Engineer, but what they/I need on site is a project coordinator/manager type. That's where they drag their heels on hiring somebody.

So I hire a Journalism or Business graduate, give them mentoring for the first month on-site, and being young and ambition they take off.

The principle thing in dealing with an Engineering organization (I tell them) is, when you don't understand what they're saying, say "I don't understand that. Can you elaborate?" Engineers generally love to explain their stuff. And it doesn't hurt to appear humble and eager either.

Anyway it works for what I've been doing (data migration, engineering data management, test fixture setup and deployment) since its more software configuration and vendor selection than it is technical Engineering. More a planning and coordination role. Especially since the departments I get injected into are already busy, and are glad to offload non-Engineering tasks.

It's a situation that's rich with opportunities to make yourself legitimately useful and productive. So the right candidate is not chosen so much by credentials, as skills in organizing, communicating and following up.

One very successful example had been a manager for an Americorp section, looking after 20+ young people as young as himself, and keeping them motiviated, supplied and supported. This person is now being groomed for a higher-level management position in the service company I introduced him into. I expect to see him as a Director or VP one day.

Btw, it doesn't hurt to have somebody at client companies that feels predisposed to look favorably on my services. Not only can I continue to get connected to whomever it takes to get a contract moving, I have a positive voice in their meeting rooms supporting us.
Given that she refuses to release the personnel files that would show what she claimed, I guess we'll never know.
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Ya you're right. I guess the correct solution then is to prevent index funds from voting entirely. If you own a company as a part of a passive vehicle, your vote doesn't count.
We can't even bloody keep the yellow markings on the road visible, and "paint" is a technology we've had for thousands of years. Where in dog's name is the money for installing and maintaining all that smart infrastructure going to come from?
If passengers can jump into the car while it's moving slowly (sliding or gull wing doors), then you technically don't need somewhere to park.
Yes, that is why trying to ship a level 5 car for the general public’s use is folly. There are .001 situations that will take 1000x the effort to automate, so automating almost all is a better approach.
No, there's been plenty of worse disasters. The San Francisco 1906 earthquake, the Galveston hurricane, etc. The cumulative earthquake risk around Seattle is about 1/2 of California. I'm not a seismologist, but I was a geophysicist who knew many seismologists working in the NW. They uniformly thought it was sensationalist.

I'm not saying this isn't a major threat that must be prepared for, but it's not an apocalyptic or existential threat like this article makes it out to be.
Consider the Osborne effect. And consider that this person has a strong vested interest in making sure potential VW customers does not decide to delay their car purchase decision in the hope of getting a more automated solution next year or the year after.

Maybe he's right, maybe he's not. But either way it'd be dumb of him to claim level 5 autonomous cars were right around the corner.
Being a marketplace, how did you manage to get the suppliers (shops) to signup before having buyers in place? Then how did you got buyers (people wanting to leave luggage) to roll in starting with a specific launch date?
We have an inkjet because we bought it for photo/poster printing. Buying a second printer, just for documents, would be overkill.

I've intended to have a black laser and get colour printing at the store, but am waiting for the printer to die.
Isn't it a little silly to call someone "only sane C-level person" after one comment?

Also, while claiming these innovations are only a few years way may be insane, saying they will never happen feels probably just as non-sense. History hasn't been on the side of such absolute claims.

It will take time, but Waymo already has working 100% self-driving cars out in the wild. Yes it's in a small area, with perfect weather, and with technicians ready to jump in, but it's still a good start and easily paves the way for it to extend over the next decade or so.
>There we go...most of the skepticism about self-driving cars appears to be driven by ideology and less by the actual evidence. "Mainstream opinions"...it is not an opinion, there are literally thousands of these cars being tested/piloted and improved upon constantly.

You can't provide evidence of something that hasn't happened, and level 5 autonomous vehicles haven't happened. All you can provide is evidence of things we have already achieved, and use that to support a strong opinion that we will be able to achieve more things.

Anyways, back to my original point, firing someone for having an informed counter-mainstream opinion is the sign of a weak and petty leader.
This isn't about the moral qualities of people there, it's about the impact the company has on the housing market and how it treats AirBnB owners. There are links in the comments here to studies on the harm AirBnB does, nobody said a thing about the employees being unethical.
As someone who tried to create a company that produced smart home tech that didn't even have the ability to phone home, this is why we can't have nice things.

About ten years ago the market was perfect for a smart home renaissance. Hardware was becoming cheap enough and powerful enough that your average bootstrapping solo founder could start a business with off the shelf components. Everything was in place for the old guard of laggy and clunky consumer tech to become fast, efficient, and offline.

But giant corporations and VCs smell an opportunity like a shark smells blood in the water. Everyone jumps on the bandwagon with a creeping sludge of inferior offerings, smothering the ecosystem. Only the billion dollar surveillance capitalists can penetrate the toxic market pollution and reach consumers.

And so, while you may have a handful of niche/maker products that hang on, the consumer is led to believe that everything is an Internet of Shit. And this is why we can't have nice things.
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Why? There's very little information that would be better coming from the road. To drive you want to know where you are, what the road surface conditions are like, where the road goes, and what else is on the road.

Road conditions can easily come from anywhere. Weather radar is at least good enough to know when roads might be wet or cold. Making roads smart enough to sense oil spills or even wetness would be incredibly hard.

Knowing where the road goes is certainly far better done by cellular. Connection to each segment of road would be fraught with hard to repair problems. Traffic conditions likewise are far better done from somewhere else, and cars would be much more able to see things on the road etc.

The only argument I can see as at all reasonable is that locating cars is difficult, and doing it with vision is incredibly challenging. You may not be aware how much GPS has improved. With a good view of the sky you can get (somewhat slow) accuracy to about a foot. Realistically that's just as good as you could possibly expect from a roadside device like RFID, bluetooth, or induction. The last inches may be important, but billions of dollars spent burying things in the road will not help.
You haven't looked properly ;-)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22086716
You certainly wouldn't want to frack in the salt dome, but you are conflating entirely separate issues. No one is pumping ultra-high pressure drill fluid into waste repos.
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Who's got it wired throughout the house?
There are already cities where buying a car is difficult and/or expensive because of traffic concerns. Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, ...

I don’t see an AI requirement to be a huge hurdle for those cities.