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This. A 3 hour commute would not be a big deal if you could sleep/get online/watch tv/do most of the stuff you would do at home. Commutes would also be shorter, all else being equal, since near-optimal automated driving would mean fewer traffic jams.

You'd find automated commuters living way out of town in areas that are currently nearly uninhabited. There probably aren't many places in the lower 48 that are too far from a medium-to-large city to commute with automated driving.

Road trips would also be easier - you'd have to be in a pretty big hurry to pay for an airline ticket when you can go 1500 miles or so in 24 hours with no effort, and without the need to pay for a hotel.
But couldn't these be safe to the point of you not needing insurance?
Well, I can see where you come from. A lot of talent is outside these so-called "brand" schools. But then again, I believe it would've been a little harder for you to convince your VC's or even your co-founders to join you than it would've been had you been to a brand school.

This is all IMHO, but I think those "brand" schools help you get your foot into the door, after that its all your hardwork. Also, All the very best with your business!
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how about MMS ? ability to send images.
We don't really have the whole story here.

If you read the news story here from China: http://topics.scmp.com/news/china-business-watch/article/App...

> The Hong Kong court found that Apple and IP Application, while drawing up the agreement for that sale, discovered the two mainland iPad trademarks were not owned by Taipei-based Proview Electronics as they were led to believe, but by Proview Technology.

> Apple said the defendants, while acknowledging the mistake, refused to rectify the matter and asked Apple to pay US$10 million for the two trademarks. Apple and IP began their action against the Proview group on May 20 last year.

All of this points that Apple didn't exactly do this intentionally.
He's suggesting that when you can open an app on your phone and (for the vast majority of the population in non rural areas) get a car to your door within 5 minutes, there won't be a connivence gap.
If every car is driven sutomatically, cars can be driven much more efficiently, since there won't be any need for stop signs or traffic lights in the current form. Cars can just coordinate that one car slows down a little and one car speeds up a little. The only reasonfor card to stop will be pedestrians.
Of course I assume that there will be only driverless cars. I am fairly sure that human driven cars will be illegal in less than 20 years. Most accidents will be caused by human driven cats which will lead to a ban. I also predict that the US will be one of the last western countries to ban human driven cars
The men are utterly failing to engage in an important process known as crew resource management, or CRM. They are failing, essentially, to cooperate. It is not clear to either one of them who is responsible for what, and who is doing what.

I have read a few other transcripts from crashed planes and this seems to be the most common and significant contributor.

I see variations of this problem almost daily in my day to day work. It strikes me so many times that people flat out refuse to communicate or do do in an extremely ambiguous fashion, people violate responsibility boundaries all the time (faux-technical people forcing technical decisions for e.g.) and that directly results in losses far greater than they should have been if there was any notion of discipline and communication.
> he way it's working in my mind has about the same number of lookups as FXAA,

However, the FXAA will have a clear win as it works over a partly transparent polygon. So you will have to combine both an RBG and z based to get the same result as an FXAA.

> you're dependent on bandwidth between the GPU and its memory, not main memory.

The bandwidth I was talking about was the older cards which do not have bandwidth or fill rate to keep 60fps with deferred shading, no AA. FXAA would be a candidate there if it is a pure RGB technique on the composited frame, especially as it is cheaper than MSAA.
I know! It's always defended as a way to "see how the candidate thinks," but that only invites pop psychology assessments. Whatever, the person was a jerk regardless.
an earlier comment pointed out that there is no similarity between elm and coffeescript except that they compile to JavaScript. coffeescript is just JavaScript in a new syntax. Elm brings a new paradigm to the web.
I'm not sure if anyone else has realized it yet, but driverless cars will have to be taxed on a time-on-road basis, rather than at a flat rate.

The reason? The economics of electric cars and parking.

Initially it seems that they will fix the parking problem - driverless cars can be sent to park outside the CBD, reducing traffic and freeing up space.

But the problem is that people/software will optimize for price, and for electric cars the cheapest scenario is for them to be stuck in a traffic jam on a public road.

Instead of going to a parking bay, the software will route them to the nearest traffic jam, where the car can sit with the electric motors off for a large amount of time. Inevitably, some software will misjudge how long their charge will last, their batteries will run flat and the traffic jam will get worse.

As far as I can see the only way around this is to increase the cost of being on the road.
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I came in swinging to tear apart yet another oblivious security article, but you actually taught me something.

Looking up X-Frame-Options and X-Content-Security-Policy now--thanks!
>Cars being used 20 times more will break down 20 times faster.

Not true if they're owned by big players who professionally maintain them. Want to buy a used LLV (postal truck from the eighties/nineties)? You can't, because they haven't been surplused yet.

Also, cold engines wear much faster than hot engines, so an engine that runs all day does not wear out as quickly per mile as one that's driven a few times daily.
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He is missing the point that mostly, people set themselves up for getting feedback, or not. Especially in a leadership position, one can actively create a feedback culture or a "yes men" culture. I'd even venture to say that good leaders can be identified by looking at how well they encourage and use feedback.

On a related note, if his rate is only 70 to 30 with regards to people who receive his feedback constructively, there is still room for improvement. From reading the article, it seems to me he might be little blunt every now and then.
"There goes one of the greatest game-designer of our time."

He's not going anywhere. Disregard the misleading headline and read the article...
The use case I'm imagining is people going shopping, and wanting to put bags from one store away in their car before going into another. So what if you could summon up a self-driving car, put your stuff in its trunk for a fee, and then call back the same car later with your stuff still in its trunk? It could go be a taxi while you're busy shopping, and not allow other customers to unlock its trunk.
Road space shouldn't be a problem, from studies I've read with increased speed and traffic density that come from driverless cars you could fit several times more traffic on the current roads.
This is a fantastic question. I can think of no situation where this behavior would be desireable, but then again IANAP
To some extent. But if you give so much latitude to judges, you're asking for complications. Unfortunately, things like obviousness and originality are not clear cut. If we want limits per se, I think Congress is the place to implement them, not the courts.

That said, it's worth asking whether the courts are actually expanding the bounds of patentable subject matter, or simply upholding the breadth of the existing laws. It doesn't seem like this is a case where they could expand it—that would involve overturning precedent. If they aren't overturning precedent, they're simply saying “yep, the law is in fact this broad”. I'm not super-well-versed in the details of the case, however.
The availability of the iPhone 4S in Sprint is responsible for the 30% drop i would assume. The evo was a top seller for Sprint last year.
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You're right; I was being imprecise (or sloppy, perhaps). Graphical aliasing isn't the same as signal aliasing, though it's easy to equate the two conceptually.

I understand the value of using 96KHz instead of 48KHz so you can have a gentler filter, at least in the days before digital filters (as you say), but don't you agree that there's no further advantage to 192KHz in that respect? Maybe I'm justifying 192KHz by saying that it's for cleaner processing, when the real reason is It's A Bigger Number.

I've never heard anyone use "resolution" to mean bit depth; in fact, I've always heard it used to specifically mean sample rate - e.g. 96KHz resolution, 24 bits. But I've never studied DSP programming - I have a plumber's understanding, not a fluid mechanics engineer's.
Important to note that the Corporate World won't be touching the Windows app store with a ten meter cattle prod. IT departments determine what gets installed on all those machines. So all of those massive amounts of users will be irrelevant to Microsoft's app store fortunes.
You'll be able to thank him for more games in the future since he's, y'know, not retiring.
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long-term cap gains are 15%, not 22% -- until 2013. unless congress intervenes before then.
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not looking forward to the autonomous volvo 240 future
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Having multiple joysticks that can be in different positions at the same time and yet all simultaneously affect the flight of the Airbus is a serious design flaw.
I believe the idea is that with time, it won't make fiscal sense. The first wave of these will be bought in small part by early adopting owners but more likely by small-time transit / freight companies looking to save a buck.

Once it's a proven small-scale model, larger transit and freight systems will start using them; I'd expect ZipCar and Uber and similar services to jump on it. At this time, more and more people would be buying their own driverless car.

Now picture 20 years down the road. You're a young person who can't afford a car. Do you get a job to pay to buy a car, or do you use a service like ZipCar? Fast forward 5 years, you've got a job and you could afford a car. Do you buy one to give you "added convenience"? That's what ZipCar will have to beat. If they can get a car to you by the time you're outside your house, they are actually beating personally owned vehicles, and the closer to that they get, the less likely it is people will purchase vehicles.
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Can you share a link to the video? :)
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You don't see anything sleezy about an employee who put in both sweat equity and money getting nothing for his stock, while other shareholders are reimbursed for theirs?

Seems both sleezy and a cautionary tale for those thinking of working at a startup from where I'm sitting...
my dad is a captain, very experienced -- flies 777s, has > 20k hours and is trained in both airbus and boeings.

over dinner i once asked him "so what's the most exciting or difficult situation you've even been in?"

"hm... nothing i can think of, it is all pretty boring, really"

"i mean c'mon, there's got to be something!"

"you see? if you do things by the book plus a little on the safe side it usually works out that you are never in an exciting situation -- my job is to ensure that even the most unlikely exciting situations become more unlikely."

in this particular instance, it seems that there are a few actions that could've avoided the whole situation had the people in charge had the mentality of "by the book plus a little on the safe side". the most glaring one is that the other planes in the area diverted to avoid the storm. another: the captain should have made clear who is in charge.

of course, this is very easy for me to type from the comfort of my office without any situational stress.

scary!
Interesting post. However, I think the primary consequence of driverless cars could be more mundane - everyone will end up using cabs/taxis far more often. This is the life I lived in Bombay a decade ago. The parking, cost overhead of a car is so high and rickshaws/cabs are so cheaply and plentifully available, that walking out of your home and hailing a cab to go wherever you want is the best option.

Cabs in the West are expensive because drivers need to be paid more and cartels are at work. If both these costs are eliminated then what works in a country like India is, suddenly, the best option for commuters in the West. Realtime pooling of cab passengers is a possibility, a traveler could be offered a choice of picking a co-traveler for a reduction in fare(or even cash back!) when already travelling in the car.

Families could still own cars, but they will probably pay for insurance on a per-mile basis, rather than a per-month basis, so that the incremental cost of owning a car is minimal. Effectively, you end up owning a cab that only you use and pay cab fare to the insurance company :-) The ratio of cabs to private cars would then be an interplay of insurance costs/parking costs and ride sharing benefits, with cities leaning towards cabs to escape parking costs. So, things wouldn't be too different :-)

One unfortunate consequence could be the increase in suburban sprawl and traffic congestion with driverless cars as people start caring lesser about longer commute times. Automated cars will probably be better behaved in traffic, but the road capacity will be pushed to its limits.
I don't live in any large city. I'm 30 miles from the nearest one, Philadelphia, and have 4G service on Sprint. I've been on 4G since 6/2010.
I agree with everything except the last part. Cars will still wear out after the same number of miles.
With ZipCar, you have to first get to the car, and then also get back from the car. For most people, the car they own is in their driveway or parking spot.
I'm thinking of setups which often have some absolute minimum buffer size, maybe due more to the protocol (e.g. ASIO) than the converter design; my RME Digiface setup can't work below 56 samples, no matter what the sample rate.
They're a sovereign state. They even have their own passports.

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Reminds me of feynman saying he had to start "playing" again.

> He realized then that his playful attitude towards theories and constructions were what had driven his research. [leading to the "spinning plate" observation]

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=g7nWSs5k7V8C&lpg=PA1...
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I have to second gallerytungsten's comment.

I've been approached a dozen times by business people offering me equity for my development time. I committed to and completed three projects and nothing ever came of them. Thankfully it only amounted to ~1000 hours among the three projects, but it's still time I wasn't paid for.

A technical co-founder with no work experience doesn't sound like much of a "technical" co-founder. Has he worked on any sort of open source projects, done research at a university, or anything that could be considered experience? If not, then it's not a good sign.

If you can afford to spare the time, then by all means take the opportunity, but I'd ask for 33% and wouldn't settle for less than 25%. Just state that you feel you'd be playing an important role in the product's creation and expect a more equitable share. You're allowed to put any price you want on your time. If they're confident the venture will succeed, then they should relinquish some of their share, otherwise they're being a bit greedy.
IAAP (not commercial) and that sounds like an awful way to do things. An important aspect of cockpit resource management is to know who is controlling the airplanes, and part of that is always positively verbally transferring control, with confirmation. "I have the plane." "You have the plane." There is no situation where you want two people to both have input at the same time.
Sadly, their "attention to detail on their download page" doesn't extend to the actual screenshots on that page: they reference Dropbox.exe (which is incorrect -- the downloaded filename actually includes a version number), and sometimes Dropbox 0.7.110.exe (which is worse, because although it does include a version number, that version is a couple of years out-of-date by this stage.)
The cars could easily be routed to pick up multiple people, you could even put up partitions so they didn't have to interact with each other.

Also there's no reason why we need to keep the concept of a 4-5 passenger sedan. 10 passenger vans could be viable.

>free automated delivery

could be routed so that it's delivered to you by the car that's coming to pick you up in the morning to take you to work.

There's also no reason non-passenger vehicles couldn't be ultra efficient 35mph crawlers.

By taking the driver out of the equation we can drastically our definition of a car.
Who exactly will do this? No major car company would risk their reputation selling a car with that programmed into its software.

Even if groups of hackers installed this on their cars, I can't imagine this movement gaining enough critical mass to honestly be a concern.
I'm unable to edit my blunderous original post, but as others have pointed out, Rob Conery is the host of This Developer's Life (an excellent podcast) and not Phil Haack. Honest mistake.
> the user is aware of their own actions and embodied state

particularly unaware in this instance. due to the turbulence and general confusion it is very likely both pilots were disoriented. it is possible and likely that their senses were conveying wrong information to them.

(most people experience some mild form of this at some point when in a car or plane that's not moving next to one that is moving slowly and it feels as if you are moving backwards)
That Go does static linking also helps. And in Go-land source code is pretty much the only way things are distributed because it is so fast to build.

For example in Go on AppEngine you upload the source for your app, and it is built on Google's servers.

In a way Go's source is its 'bytecode' :)
Maybe not.

If you made it a flat fee, then it's kind of like runs-batted-in. The car has to get more people delivered to make money, so once it gets you to where you need to go as efficiently and quickly as possible, you get out and it speeds off to complete another fare.

Increasing road-cost would have the opposite effect, I think. If the cars make money just by being on the road and not by completing tasks, they lose the incentive to finish and jam-sitting becomes optimal.
"It's a solved problem"? I'm not sure what that even means. There are algorithms for finding solutions, and if you have enough time and storage space, you can solve it.

In any case, the problem more likely to be used in delivery is the VRP or a variety: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_routing_problem.
Very insightful. Indeed it seems that one of the main contributor was the copilot's attitude (at least one of them, pulling back on the joystick all the way)

02:13:40 (Bonin) Mais je suis à fond à cabrer depuis tout à l'heure!

Obviously they were in panic mode and did not take time to think - they were reacting to the "plane go down" message by a "pull back" mode, where they should have been trying to understand why they were losing altitude.
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I am 100% for holding a mirror up to the weird industry of Apple bloggers constantly patting each other on the back for being brave enough to support a giant company while throwing schoolyard insults at any one who dares compete with Apple (though I honestly just file them in the same department as sports writers now: rarely insightful, yet a highly amusing sideshow), but let's have some honesty here. The only reason Shift Jelly Android profits are beating iOS is that the fact that one of their main apps is a podcasting app. On iOS, while there is much room for improvement over Apple's offering, they are still competing with the company that essentially runs podcasting distribution and has their podcasting solution preinstalled. On Android, there is no preinstalled podcasting app/distribution market, so the demand is much higher. Not to mention that Google's own podcasting app is half baked and seemingly abandoned.
If you can just network the driverless cars up to the existing public transportation systems then we'd have a truly useful device.

Just walk outside your house and a car drives on up, opens its doors, and takes you to the most convenient location to transfer to a public bus, or if economical to pick up other passengers going near your destination.
If I'm understanding the relevant WP articles correctly, the travelling salesman problem is not solved, since a solution for it would also imply a solution for all NP-complete problems. What these companies have therefore cannot be an absolute solution, but rather an optimal approximation which may or may not (but probably isn't, and probably can't be proved to be in polynomial time) equal to the absolute solution.

Of course, I don't have much firsthand knowledge of computational complexity myself, so someone else who know better should call me on any nonsense above. =D
This was also one of the points of Malcom Gladwell in one of his book ("the Tipping point"), where he talked about what went wrong in several examples of air crashes: lack of human cooperation at its best.
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As the article mentions, aviation experts are rightly bamboozled by this.

The closest I've come to flying was Chuck Yeager's AFT on the Commodore 64, but even then I knew presence of engine power does not preclude a stall if your pitch is extreme.

Without knowing that Bonin had been pulling-back the whole time, I guess Robert and Dubois were searching for non-obvious reasons (and struggling, with the altered cognition under stress that the article also mentions).
That's one car. What about the 10 cars this car is representing, if it's right that 10 people share the same car? (a la zipcar).

It would be good to get the data about energy consumption for car building, to answer this.
>you'd have to be in a pretty big hurry to pay for an airline ticket

That probably wouldn't result in a large net increase in total fuel consumption.

According to wikipedia the average commercial jet gets 49 passenger miles per gallon. It wouldn't be to hard to get that out of a driverless vehicle, add a second passenger and
you're twice as fuel efficient as an airplane.
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Pilot stalls the plane out of panic to get out of the storm, ignoring 75 reminders that you are stalling and losing altitude, does nothing to remedy the stall until it is too late.

I expect blunders like that from drunk drivers.
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Uncle (in-law) pretty much says the same thing.
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I'm surprised how many are in the "greater than $11M" bucket. Was that perhaps just multiple people from a small handful of companies?