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> The idea that it could've been a lie -- that the AI was engaged during the crash -- doesn't have to be a conspiracy involving PR. I think if it was in fact a lie it would be much more likely to originate from the engineer in the car.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If there's any chance that it's a lie, that's the only way it happens-- the guy at the wheel decided to take the fall without telling anyone else. Maybe he pushed the button by accident, the thing freaked out, and he decided no one needed to know. Possible.

But that still doesn't fly. Everything that happens to that car is measured and recorded for later analysis. There is a verifiable record of when it is under human control and when it isn't. Faking that record convincingly enough to cover up the only public accident in the history of the project is almost certainly beyond the capabilities of a single engineer who was just in a fender bender. (And for what it's worth, Google has claimed to have logs which prove that the car was in manual mode, which I assume are available to legislators.)

Human beings crash cars all the time. Autonomous vehicles crash-- well, there's actually no evidence that Google's self-driving car has ever crashed[0]. So if one of their self-driving cars crashes with a human behind the wheel, outside of the context of an autonomous test-drive, and he says at the scene that he was driving, and Google confirms that they have proof that he was driving, and considering that lying to the public about something provable is a really, really bad idea when you're trying to get a law passed...

If there were any evidence, any shred of inconsistency to their story, I'd be skeptical. But there isn't. There's just no reason to doubt them besides "Companies always lie." Or "Of course they'd say that." Yeah, I'd say that's absurd.

[0] In traffic, obviously. One can only presume it has hit many obstacles during development.
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Not much - wear and tear is strongly a function of vehicle weight, a lane with no big rigs doesn't suffer much.

And with enforced control over the vehicles you could make the lane narrower and even have a low kerb to stop people cutting in and out.

Popular in europe are guided bus ways. you put a low concrete kerb in a very narrow lane ie. 12 inches wider than the bus. There are small guide wheels that run against the kerb and servo the steering. So you can run a two way full size bus route in almost the same width as a single rail line - and at the end of the route it can pull out into normal traffic. This is just a software alternative.
The OS has a good UI, with Unix under the hood. And the hardware is generally excellent, while most PC vendors have spent the last several years making their products worse. For example, 5 years ago laptop displays were commonly 1440x900, and 1680x1050 wasn't hard to come by. Now on everything but Macs it's the atrocious 1366x768, or 1600x900 if you're lucky.
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The issue here is Laziness, not Stupidity...People Don't like to think... That's why we build intuitive UI, thats why we simplify everything, thats why we remove every extra click, thats why we show social proof, etc...

According to Dan Kennedy, there are two types of customers who make their decision based on price alone.

1. Those who simply cannot afford to pay any more.

2. Those who are too LAZY too think about the factors that actually matter.

Dan's argument is that you do not want either of those types of customers, so stay away from the cheap end, and focus on the premium priced market.

From a pure marketing perspective, IMHO, winning customers with cheap prices, is a short-cut lazy marketers and businesses use, they are too lazy to create a product and environment that ties the product to the value it creates, and ultimately, they are very shortsighted about the backend cost of managing lazy customers, who were never truly convinced of your value that they wouldn't use price as a major factor.

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You hit the nail on the head.
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Why do I care about this website?
I'm sure it has something to do with the types of services that might be offered for free as well. Higher priced services are generally more in the domain of business customers who are likely to appreciate how much work goes into a quality product or service.

Free services may apply to either, but you're going to also get customers who are not really in business yet and they may have unrealistic expectations. I think of myself when I was younger and I thought of all companies as faceless corporations, rather than actual people just trying to provide a good service.
Not to mention pointless Word documents, "templates" that include background images and difficult-to-read colors and fonts, signatures with embedded artwork, screensful of pointless legalese, and top-posted histories of conversations almost, if not entirely unrelated to the present message.

In other words, it's not at all clear to me how additional features would help decrease email's signal-to-noise problems when users themselves choose to create the noise.
I can short the end of the world; as long as there is enough time between when I profit and when I cash that profit out into something that will provide me with long term value (house, etc).

For this argument, I define value as providing ME something, not value that can be traded.
Or you can always build your own Mac: http://paulstamatiou.com/hackintosh-computer

My Air wasn't quite cutting it for me.
Most of these slippery slope arguments are made by people who seem to have no actual experience with any of the issues at hand apart from reading 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. This gives them about as much credibility as someone whose information comes from watching Jack Bauer on 24 and Fox News.

You cannot come to reasonable conclusions about issues like this without seeing what's going on in the real world. This is not a math problem we're talking about; you can't sit around thinking and extrapolating and expect your conclusions to mean anything. It's like trying to run a scientific experiment without any data.

Do you know anything about criminal law? Do you know anything about the legal checks that are in place that prevent your doomsday scenario from happening? Are you aware of how evidence rules are applied in real cases? I'm sure you've read stories about the most egregious abuses, because they are the ones that pop up in the feeds that you read, but do you extrapolate from these that all cases are like this?

I say all this because I recently had the very eye-opening experience of serving on a juror in a five-week criminal trial. I realized that many of the prejudices that the technorati crowd has about the justice system are totally unfounded, at least for the case that I sat on. Our jury was not a clueless bunch of simpletons, our prosecutor couldn't get whatever he wanted by just saying "think of the children," and the judge was not an apathetic overworked bureaucrat who let anything slide.

What concerns me is that 90%+ of the time there's no crime being committed, save for discharging a firearm. So there's all these thousands of "criminals" discharging firearms that haven't been arrested before but could be now. Yay?

Are you really arguing that discharging firearms is a victimless crime? (edit: I'm talking about dense urban areas).
Embrace the rampant

But be very careful of doing so in public lest you fall foul of indecency laws.
I agree... I just think it is less about feeling special and more about justifying their investment. I have seen countless case studies that people who pay more for a product or service, end up getting more value out of it. They feel invested, and no one likes to lose money or feel like they wasted their money. It is less about feeling special, and more about not feeling like a fool.
I donated to that through KickStarter. He recently emailed us to say that the editing had been completed ...

> Good news. Editing is complete, we are now mixing the music and adding finishing touches. I am spending all of my time listening through everything very carefully. We are close enough that I'm going to be submitting an order for t-shirts this week, and begin preparing everyone's gifts.

> I will send an update before everything is mailed, in the meantime I am figuring out a way to get the original ProTool files online so donors can download them and mix things themselves

> Thanks for your patience and for sticking through this with me, hopefully you will all be as pleased as I am with the final result.

It has taken about 18 months since he KickStart funding was successful. I think it was a lot more work than he anticipated.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/record-and-relea...
No.

Being an expert in your field is the only thing that is important.

Use whatever you require to achieve that goal, but remember they are only the tools: "It is not the tools we use which make us good, but rather how we employ them."
Not criticism of Musk, just a general observation: "I think" humility is super cheap, it takes 0.3 seconds or 8 keypresses to add it like table salt. Stating concrete exceptions to your generalizations is a much stronger indicator of non-absoluteness. I've often or even mostly seen "I think" as a defense against objections; "Oh, that's just what I think." Meanwhile the real message is the same.
Because the information ends up being distributed through email anyway, just via a third party.
I can kinda relate to having fun fixing bugs, but I think (i addition to some sarcasm) the author is kinda romanticizing debugging. 90% of the time it's no fun, feels like a waste of time and doesn't really provide much satisfaction. Once in a while, though, you do find a really interesting bug and fix it and it feels pretty great!
Are we talking past each other? Note the words "tiny fraction".
Sadly if Americans are too damn cheap to go back to the moon then we can't be too upset if someone from someplace else messes with the stuff you left behind. Although the real futue risk may not be future trips sponsored by nation-states but even provate salavage hunters looking to make a quick buck just like what you see today with the Titantic (or any ancient artifacts that get looted).
We've been using SendGrid at $work and I couldn't be happier. It just works, and it's FAST. 3 lines of configuration in the code and we were integrated. Soon I'm going to implement their Events API so we can start doing some detailed analytics.
Return fire?
Will there be actual accounts, or is twitter and facebook meant to be it for sign in?
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"Cheap" is really a values judgment by the author - a business should consider every customer valuable. If the customer is 'cheap' for the amount of effort/support, then the product/service is priced too low.

If competing on price, support should reflect the model, i.e. self-serve methodologies.

Especially for digital products/services which have essentially zero marginal cost, the customer is really paying for your time.

If customers are overloading support channels, it probably means the product is priced too low and the price curve should be accordingly adjusted to lower the number of paying customers while maintaining profits.

Of course, the product/service can have an artificially low price point to encourage eventual upsell/cross-selling opportunities, but all the more reason to have a measured funnel before losing most of your time to support.
Yeah, it's very subtle. He's essentially saying that the TDD approach has made his code is flawless, and he is incapable of producing bugs.
I've been reading about the use of Singaporean math curricula in the US, there are a few articles out there about the differences between the US and Singaporean style of math education. The US has been embroiled in the "math wars" since the '90s, over constructivist textbooks that have proven woefully ineffective in raising objective test scores.

Have a read:

http://educationnext.org/miracle-math/

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It was another body blow to education. In December of 2004, media outlets across the country were abuzz with news of the just-released results of the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) tests. Once again despite highly publicized efforts to reform American math education (some might say because of the reform efforts) over the past two decades, the United States did little better than average (see Figure 1). ... And in three consecutive TIMSS test rounds (in 1995, 1999, and 2003), 4th- and 8th-grade students in the former British trading colony of Singapore beat all contenders, including math powerhouses Japan and Taiwan. United States 8th graders did not even make the top ten in the 2003 round; they ranked 16th. Worse, scores for American students were, as one Department of Education study put it, “among the lowest of all industrialized countries.”
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Further reading: http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/jason.frand/math_enrichmen...

It sounds like the way math is taught in many public US classrooms is killing students' confidence and interest in math. There were a few news articles talking about how many students became interested in math again after the Singapore program was introduced in their school (see here: http://singaporemathsource.com/curriculum/schools-in-the-new... ). A common refrain was that the kids simply weren't understanding what was going on in math - as if they were stumbling around in the dark with no idea what the computations they were doing meant.

I've also read good things about other foreign curricula (e.g. "Russian math") being used in American schools and by homeschoolers, but none are as common as Singapore Math. Here's some praise about SM from American mothers, including sample word problems: http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/singapore.htm - where you'll see simple algebra problems that are not solved by traditional algebra at all.

I can tell you as a Singaporean that I think the curriculum gave me a solid base and understanding of school math, and really stretched me at its harder portions. I hope more people will give it a try, especially if you have kids who aren't "getting" math or are bored of their current math curricula. Get the additional 'tougher' practice books (IP and CWP) for your bright kids to experience the full brain training of the Singaporean system.
I think the gist of the post is intriguing but I felt that there were too many of these seemingly thin-air sourced assertions for me to take it without a grain of salt. I think a lot of the stuff could be true and it makes sense to me, but my intuition on such complex topics as human behavior is frequently wrong, so I don't trust it w/o supporting evidence. :)
This system isn't deployed in Chicago; I've used Chicago as an example because I live here and am familiar with it. Every major American city has a gun violence problem.

I don't understand your glib "digital signal processing" sentence. Technology won't help police forces become more effective? Strong disagree.
It is easy, don't TDD every project.

Wasted some time on TDD before, slow, like robot, generate tons of code that never be shipped. Nowadays, I just read through the code like it was written by another idiot, understand it, and you know what, I am actually refactor it more often, and keep improving it even though it doesn't fix a known bug. You have better understanding of your code, and then when something goes wrong, it is pretty easy for you to figure out what could be the cause. However, this approach doesn't fit for thrown-away type of projects.
I debug because I'm smart, and I enjoy it, and I frequently find bugs that I didn't know existed by seeing inside a frame as it's executing. Debugging is a crucial skill in many fields, particularly embedded work (which is the irony in your comment), and the insight from breakpoints and a couple afternoons of digging is unique among our tools. I hate sweeping generalizations of how programming should be done, regardless of what they are.

Watch this sweeping generalization:

If you don't love debugging, I don't think you're a seasoned or valuable programmer.
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Every single one of these articles has provided no sources for these layoff figures. Sure, many of the C-Level's and SVP's have been leaving their Waterloo coop, but isn't it expected when the company has recently suffered under the current management? Surely RIM still needs it's employees to support BB7 (with devices still being launched globally [1]), while also building BB10 their next-gen OS.

Sure, their might be another round of layoffs. But almost half the company? Doubt it.

[1] http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/blackberry-curve-9320-...
Good points. But what I meant by "cheap" is "customers who choose the lowest price point", not "customers who have less value".

Although it seems uncommon, it's very possible that the lowest price point would also be the most profitable. So "paying less" != "less valuable".
Given that I spent the better part of my childhood firing a .22 and a .306 after school at whatever I decided was worth shooting (not to mention fall season, when whatever was worth shooting usually had four legs), I would argue that discharging firearms is not a crime. And it most certainly fits _the_ definition of "victimless crime." The only parties that you are indirectly benefitting would be Walmart (or wherever you pick up your ammunition).
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I use piracetam and can attest to its effects. They're subtle, but I find that I lose my train of thought FAR less frequently than I did without it - it's not uncommon for me to work for multiple hours without having to stop and ask myself "what was I doing now?".
If a founding principal of the United States was that legislators shouldn't become politicians for life, the US Constitution could have included term limits for the legislative branch. How seriously are we to take the "debates that occurred when the United States ratified the Constitution"? The opinions expressed in those debates aren't laws.
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You should definitely take it with a grain of salt! I'm not so much saying "this is the way it is", as "this is the way it could be".
> it is hard (or at least not obvious) to have configuration that can be changed from the admin.

You are doing settings.py wrong. You should have your own SiteConfig model stored and manipulated in a db.

Settings.py is for static, persistent attributes, not for site-wide variables which need auditing or updated from time to time.
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Post messages to your private archive.
Then send them to yourself through scheduled email and text reminders.

The MVP is built and I am seeking beta testers to give me feedback. Getting feedback on what works is nice, but I'm very interested to hear what doesn't make sense, why you think it won't work and what you think is missing.
I have more features in mind, but they aren't worth building if they aren't inline with user needs and expectations.
Thanks in advance!
First thing is not to expect much. Your first reaction will be 'Is this it? Suburbia and McMansions?'. And you will be right.

The factor that makes it a 'tech hub' is the people (take them away and Palo Alto becomes utterly uninteresting), so you might want to see if any interesting tech types have time to meet with you (if you care to).

Having said that, this thread might have things of interest to see: http://www.quora.com/Palo-Alto-CA/How-shall-I-spend-my-day-i...

Since you're there for a while you should also take the train to San Francisco. Most of the startups there are in SoMa, so you should walk around there if you want to get a feel for what it's like.
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Unless you're dealing with most corporate mail systems.
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If he's really looking from the satisfaction from debugging as more of a self-morale booster, why not contribute bug fixes to an open-source project? Find a major project, open its issue tracker, and start bug hunting!

I'm sure the maintainers of whatever project he picks will love having someone around to fix bugs, and he both gets the enjoyment he "misses", and gets to hone some debugging skills.
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The reason for the UK triangle is that the orientation is set, so you know which of the supply wires is live and which is neutral - and if the plug is half removed the top exposed pin is ground so if anything fell down onto the socket it wouldn't touch a hot pin

Extreme I know - whoever designed the UK plug was obviously paranoid.
I just feel bad for the smart people there that may be out of a job soon.

And yes, most of my desire to see them succeed is because a lot of public money is invested in them, and it would likely send a ripple effect across the tech sector in Canada (specifically the Waterloo area).
This is true to the extent that the PEO takes care of administrative things that aren't critical to the culture of the company.... but there should always be someone at the company whose an employee ombudsman / morale officer, whose mission is to make sure employee issues don't become problems, and who helps install a good company culture.

One startup I worked with had a person like this who was bot the recruiting person and morale person, and they had a dedicated morale budget. Rather than spend the budget on a monthly pizza party or something repetitive, he'd often save up a couple months of it and surprise us with something completely unexpected.

That one guy-- who was not a founder-- had a larger positive impact on the culture and effectiveness of the company than most of the founders (who at least get credit for knowing they needed someone whose mission was to create a good company culture and keep morale up.)
Ahh.. I must lack some sense of humor.
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I feel this myself.

However, I have always had the most fun debugging other people's systems. Because under those conditions I'm always billing by the hour, and when I find the problem it's never my mistake.

For my own code, though, I prefer TDD. And these days I still get enough debugging exercise when dealing with third-party systems. Facebook API, I'm looking at you here.