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A recent luxury vehicle has so many "assist" systems it could drive itself if only the manufacturer wanted to deal with the liability. Calculating the route? Trivial. Traction while braking, cornering, accelerating? Done. Staying in lane? Sure. Staying a safe distance behind car in front? Yup. Braking when pedestrians enter unsafe zone around car? Covered too. And yep, it'll parallel park at your destination.

Google's real test will be putting their wundermachines on the market and standing behind them when the liability suits inevitably come in. That's not to say the vehicles themselves will malfunction, but that won't stop some people.

Edit: here are some dates.

- Staying in lane, 2003, Honda Inspire provides up to 80% of required steering torque: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_departure_warning_system#T.... Want to bet why it wasn't 100%?

- Traction assist in cornering, 1995-1997 (notably retrofitted onto the Mercedes A-class in 1997 after it was beaten by a Trabant in the elk test): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_stability_control#In.... Early forms of braking traction assist available as ABS starting in 1971.

- Following the car in front, at any speed from 0 to 100 km/h, 2006, Lexus LS 460, with first systems becoming available 1997-2000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_cruise_control#Availab...

- Standard roadside traffic sign recognition, currently implemented for speed limit and overtaking restriction signs, 2008, BMW and GM, soon followed by others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_sign_recognition

- Blind spot detection, circa 2006, second generation Volvo S80: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_detection

- Pedestrian detection, circa 2010, Volvo: http://www.popsci.com/bown/2010/product/volvo-pedestrian-det...
30-40 people? How can you get anything done with that many people? Teams of 5-10 people have built entire operating systems. What makes a video driver so complex?
If their stock is perceived as stagnant or declining, it makes it harder to attract top employees (and retain existing employees).

It also hurts the morale of all the employees that started working in the past ~12 months, whose equity was valued at an amount higher than $20.
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That is ... beyond wrong :-(
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They don't need to understand the tech. Just tell them "your Android devices work up to 3x as fast when you are within Wifi range of this box."
Don't you mean burning Mg? It does react with water at room temperature, but very slowly (unless it's powdered).
Cooper Sulphate certainly looks good

My parents always advised me not to drink this stuff

Also, it probably tastes very bad
I don't think the problem was people not buying them. I think the problem was a small bunch of lawsuit-happy parents and probably some trigger-happy regulators that always prefer to forbid first and ask questions never.

It is cool when the kid can experiment with real chemicals, but if one stupid one out of thousands sets the house on fire or drinks something that says "DO NOT DRINK!" and the parents sue and/or whine to regulators - it's not worth it for the maker anymore. And in the age when common sense is not considered common anymore and everything even remotely dangerous, even if the danger is purely theoretical, comes with 9000 warnings, what do you expect?
No but it will make people feel better :)
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We are still waiting on the production company that Heroku used to deliver the goods, believe it or not.
Yep, the guideline does say that. That is why I said recent policy. There have been several recent instances of submission title being edited to match the article linked, in some cases when that title was misleading or provided minimal context. Some examples here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102013
Interesting. Would also like to see p(topic|school=X).
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The way people would navigate the suggestions, would in itself allow you to match up like-minded people.

But there are two types of like-mindedness - the longterm common interest and the shorterm.

By this I mean if you ask somebody to list there favourite numbers - say first 5 numbers and then matched those to other peoples choices, that would be in general static choices and would give you some common grounds of a longterm interest.

Now if you asked people to pick 5 random numbers - those that matched would be people who have a short term comminality with those who matched up in that at that point in time there intune and thinking the same.

A better example would be crowd mentality in that with the right set of instances the crowd will share a interest and act as one were if they were all isolated would they share the same reactions. That is the difference with a short term say FOTM type comminality and long-term.

It's not easy and if it was then life would be very boring as everybody would be very samish and they are not.

Also with every rule there is always an exception and the classic phrase "opposites attact" does have some weight and also goes against any form of pattern matching as it is not a hard and fast rule you can say just beacuse they are the complete opposite they will get on.
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I wouldnt be surprised if theese guys are beeing bought by MS sooner rather than later.

Replacing VBA feels like it should be quite high on the priority list.
While it's not clear if this is gender specific or culture.
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ok, not chemistry, and maybe not quite for kids but http://diybio.org/ shows that there is something really interesting happening where for a few $100 you can do some amazing physical science.
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1) What about this issue would have been helped by client-side encryption? A valid username and password was used to access dropbox information, so it would have gone right through client-side encryption.

2) Do you not enjoy features like the web interface and public links? Those are one of my favorite parts of dropbox and they wouldn't work with client-side encryption.
I've been thinking about a "digital chemistry set" for a while. It's something that would certainly be fun to play with and that we have all the information to do--chemical reactions follow established rules and exceptions could be hardcoded in.

I've thought about an organic chemistry chemical program. If you're not familiar, a huge component of organic chemistry consists of memorizing and understanding reactions and their mechanisms, and reactivity of organic molecules. A digital lab where you could mix arbitrary compounds together and see what happens could be a powerful educational tool suitable for supplemental use with another ochem course/self study.
As a Verizon tethering subscriber, this decision will save me money... but I can separate the principle from my particular situation. Summed over all cases where a popular bit of price/service control is dictated by a federal agency, and also quite possibly in this particular case, the results are likely to be net-negative for consumers. So I'd rather regulators never intervene in this way. Their decisionmaking apparatus is unable to limit itself to the few reliably beneficial cases, instead intervening in many other cases that are just superficially attractive. On the other hand, if these sorts of differential pricing schemes get chiseled away over time by competition -- perhaps by giving other companies and technologies the marketing hook they need to make inroads, because after all packets are packets -- consumers win other benefits. Even if it takes more time than an 'FCC rescue'.

(I am the Bitzi gojomo! Seeing your comments here, I figured you were the same delirium... thanks for your contributions so many years ago!)
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Incidentally, uranium is far more dangerous because it's a heavy metal than because it's radioactive. Like most metal dusts, it also has a tendency to ignite in air pretty readily, as well.
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I'm only 24, but I remember when I was 12 having a chemistry set that had some pretty crazy chemicals in it. There wasn't anything crazy like uranium or other chemicals that could create amphetamines, but I do recall blindly mixing ingredients in a test tube, blowing the top and bottom of it out and covering a portion of the roof in the mixture which then proceeded to burn through the paint and etch the wood. I remember my dad painted like 5 coats of paint over the top and it kept showing through, those were the days.

Don't get me started on the excitement of burning magnesium ribbon, my kerosene powered Bunsen burner that I almost burned down the wooden front-deck with when I accidentally knocked it over, experimenting with beakers and filter paper... I feel sorry for kids these days who won't ever get to experience the fun in mixing semi-dangerous chemicals together in a test tube or beaker, I believe my chemistry set is what made me become the programmer I am today.

My chemistry set kept me out of trouble as a teenager because blowing things up, playing with chemicals and fire wasn't new to me, I was desensitised to it all when I was young and the thought of blowing up a car battery or soda bulb paled in comparison to magnesium ribbon or an explosive chemical cocktail mixture courtesy of my chemistry set.
Nice! This was my first thought... digitize it! Didn't want to spend the cash for the keyboard though so it ended up being a desk. I would love to convert it into a digital keyboard one day.
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It's a Sorkin quote, so of course it has bravado and ego. ;-)
Now that they're holding it, I sorta want one. Mad world.
The point is it shouldn't occur on any scale. Even small scale security exploits can turn into much bigger ones further down the track. For all we know, we've yet to see the full consequences of this attack it could be revealed that it's much more than an a spreadsheet of email addresses. The very fact Dropbox made everyone change their password is proof enough that even Dropbox aren't sure what hackers have taken or had access too..
Yup. Never even heard of that book.
I can't speak to the application in business. It's a well established idea in biology.

Females invest more biologically in eggs and pregnancy. Men may have many more children than women but also have greater risk of having none. Similar patterns show up in lots of areas. At human conception there are significantly more males than females, at birth they are close to 50/50 - males are more fragile. Even after that point, on average, men take more risks, die earlier and are more likely to be murdered.

So again, I don't have expertise to know what any of this has to do with who should run a company, the correlation may be extremely dodgy; but men are at a biological level riskier critters than women.
Thank god Only YOU can prevent such forest fires.
How is that not a flaw in the authentication system?
Yes! Yes, yes, yes. I saw this when it hit the front page awhile ago and have been waiting to stumble across the proper hardware to try it out. I love vim.
To be the devil's advocate (I do NOT seriously defend sexism) why does the cause matter if you are looking for the best person? If women are almost always better potters in Norway, and you must make pots in Norway, then it makes sense that you would hire a lot of women.
There 'is no demand' for it.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/07/epic-fraud-how-to-suc...
I think this is a problem Facebook only thinks it has. Or only thinks it can solve. Or only thinks most people are trying to solve.

There's every indication the US is essentially saturated by Facebook. My in-real-life friends who want to be on Facebook are already there. That's the usual ~150 that I think studies show is max nearly everyone can maintain. I also have a nearly equal number of purely Internet or Facebook or Professional friends. I'm not inclined to have less but I get the strong feeling a good portion of my friends want less, not more people to interact with online.

I wouldn't mind meeting new people. But I no reason to have more Facebook friends.

Perhaps the only way Facebook can keep its momentum going is to sponsor picnics and couples dancing across country. The only way to get aggregate more Facebook connections between people would be for people to suddenly actually have more "real life" friends.
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Now that will certainly spice things up.
In addition I would suggest emailing any peoples blogs you've read over the past few years.

After our launch, I emailed a bunch of people who I'd never had any connection with other than reading the content they put out and simply thanked them for all the lessons I got to learn the easy way because of their writing.

Most ended up promoting our launch in some fashion and a few even became users even though they'd never heard of us until then.
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>(I personally think women in director positions are a good thing because an all-men board obviously can't consist of the best people available)

Does that mean that education, social sciences, social care and healthcare suck because they obviously don't consist of the best people available?
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Well, I don't think any of us were expecting much and it met that expectation succinctly.
Reminds me of the time I used hair spray and a lighter as a blow torch and nearly burned down the woods in my backyard. Thanks for the nostalgia.
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Has anyone collected advice for after the acquisition? I'm thinking things like:

* Give yourself six months or so after joining before finalizing plans to sunset your original systems. It gives you time to work out the lay of the land re: political and software integration.

* If you expect more manpower in development or maintenance, get it down in writing.

Thoughts?
Wow I've never tried that. If I got an email like that from a startup I'd be so touched, I'm sure you generated a ton of goodwill by doing that.
I don't know whether what he said is true, but accurate analysis of the market doesn't depend on what pisses you off or not.

The topic was how to make money, not how to make games which you personally think to be great or politically correct or whatever.
Berkeley, sadly, is perhaps too large and diverse for an overall characterization.

So true. As a Cal alum, I think he is spot on here. :-)

I pulled about 400 followers from each school, and added a couple filters, to try to ensure that followers were actual attendees of the schools rather than general people simply interested in them

How did he ensure followers were actual attendees of the schools programmatically? It would be really hard to find out this type of information. And can be considered as borderline creepiness in some cases.

EDIT: He also works as a data scientist at Twitter. So I'm sure he has access to lot more internal data rather some sort of mashup between Twitter, FB, LinkedIn APIs.
Thanks! Yes, first time I sat down to use it I thought, "Uh oh..." But now I find the experience to be quite immersive with the monitor close and vertical. Right, now that I look at it the chair is low. Usually the arm rests meet the height of the desk which seems to be the optimal height.
Amerteurish would be to blindly carry on launching a product and then releaseing version 2.0 that fixed all the issues and making the 1.0 unsuported.

Sounds like Google TV...
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It's not symmetric; you are less likely to steal your girlfriend's bras. And if you do, it probably means something different from when your girlfriend steals your boxers.

Men and women do differ even from an early age, but you are of course right that these differences do not necessarily track with cultural stereotypes. (And when they do it may be because those stereotypes are being conformed to in a strongly biologically underdetermined way)
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400 people might not be a lot to go through if you have lots of spare time on your hands.
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I think these algorithms may be used behind the scene to find out interesting sources of content for a user. Not necessarily for adding new friends (although this was the context about), but maybe to select interesting news for you.
Right, but they'll understand it when their tower defense game says "Get a Nexus Q for cooler auto-generated maps", "Get a Nexus Q for faster load times", or "Get a Nexus Q for LAN multiplayer with all other Android users in range".
Any scientific research to support that?

Just because you can put a nice story behind a theory doesn't make it true.
Twitter didn't just go along with it - according to NBC, Twitter suggested it.
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All I learned was that if you soaked snow with enough hairspray you could burn it.

And that cologne could burn on your hand without hurting you.*

*Don't try this at home.
Well, god gave us Bayes' rule for a reason.

The article does not point out that sampling quora users might not be (I would say is probably not) an unbiased estimator of the the students of these places as a whole. Quora attracts a certain kind of person, I've never seen it mentioned anywhere outside of techy startup / valley circles. Maybe that's implied by virtue of it being in the HN ecosystem, but still it should be explicitly stated as a flaw in the method. Lies, damned lies and statistics etc.
You might be right for people like you, established Facebook users. But for users who have accounts less than 2 weeks old, this makes a substantial difference.
Well, not necessarily suck, but aren't using the full potential of the population.

There are plenty of men who could be perfect social workers, or stay-at-home dads, but instead waste their potential, because "it's a woman's job" and "the man should bring money home".
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Chrome and Firefox run all instances of Flash, from all tabs, in a single plugin process. I think this demonstrates that sandboxing plugins may be less for security as for protecting the browser from Adobe's bugs. :)
Very happy to hear they are planning to start offering two-factoring authentication. Hopefully something that works with Google Authenticator.

For client side encryption I have good experiences from BoxCryptor on Windows.
Any research happened on that matter? I believe it will be the next big thing.
"Too many men, like too much testosterone, is not a good thing."

Men built the entire world we live in today. Women's contribution to this has been negligible and inconsequential.

If every women from the dawn of time to the present day had been solely constrained to their proper duties of child-raising and home-keeping (which for the most part is actually the case), the world we live in today would basically be exactly the same, if not better.

If most men had been prevented from contributing to society and reaching their full potential we would still be living in caves.
Microsoft is (or at least used to be) pretty smart in how to partner. Reminds me of that Steve Jobs quote along the line of "I wish we were as good at partnering as Microsoft". I'm curious whether their new strategy (basically copying Apple and go vertical) will work out. If it does, we're definitely in a new computing era where commodity devices with highly compatible software is a thing of the past.
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Late to the party, but... you really couldn't find a question in there? Let me try again.

My definition of "responsible" doesn't matter. I was suggesting that the government could adopt a policy it considers responsible, rather than just sitting on the exploits and using them for strategic advantage.

Unless there's a definition of "disclosure" that involves failing to disclose things to those in a position to fix the problems.
Using a key to open a door that was designed to be opened with that key is not a flaw in the lock mechanism. The fact that the user set that key to also open something else is not the fault of the former lock.
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What about emails that are sent from services like Campaign Monitor and the like? There's almost no way to know where that link's going to end up because of the 'tracking middleman' that they all have setup.
Interesting thing to read while sipping your morning coffee but that's it, really.
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