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I agree with the general premise that flying cars are not a good idea in the near future, but I strongly disagree with your point.

1st) "fundamental laws of physics rather than moore's law" is a great analogy since people over time have continually cited physics as what will stop Moore's law. Some argue that it has in recent years done just that.

2nd) Like smartphones, the technology to build flying cars has evolved and will continue to evolve. I'm not an expert on aircraft or cars, but I can think of some areas that will make this easier right away. A) by moving all controls to fly/drive by wire, we can reduce weight, B) Materials technology has improved dramtically. C) Battery technology has improved. Maybe not for flying, but for systems. D) Weight can be further reduced by having all controls in one small computer which will eventually be the size of a smart phone instead of the size of a desktop, E) Fuel economy is improving in both cars and airplanes.

But... Here is what I think can really make it happen, and what will make it happen. When cars and planes can both fly themselves with full automatition from point to point without pilot intervention, we will see flying cars. The reason stems from the fundamental problem that 99% of people don't know how to fly, and of those that do, only a small percentage can fly, afford and want to own a car/plane.

I don't know anyone who wouldn't be interested in hoping in a fully automated vehicle which would fly them from point to point at 500 mph. You could work 250 miles away from where you live.

It will happen, just not for a long time.
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Simple and working just as fine. Well done.
Why wouldn't they beta with existing Steam users who use their Steam accounts in the living room?
Notionally, this is already accounted for in the CPI, which, where the exact same product is no longer available, uses a similar currently available product and applies a "hedonic quality adjustment" to account for the qualitative changes.

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpihqaqanda.htm
The Minnesota DOT website is widely cited by proponents of the zipper merge as a way of reducing congestion. However, it makes no claims about increasing throughput...it is about maximizing road space utilization. Early merges occupy more space, but the benefits to this space utilization are ancillary to the throughput congestion: fewer cross streets or exits are blocked by people not intending to use them. The question of lane change conflicts is not exactly clear...what is a conflict? When someone doesn't want to let you in? If so, that is a question of human behavior, not the physics of the situation.

The Virginia site recommends late merges for when >20% of the vehicles are heavy vehicles, which is due to their merging complications (maybe something to do with those pesky "lane change conflicts"). It is obviously not a general recommendation.

There is no clear data for either position on throughput...because ultimately throughput is limited by the bottleneck, which is the lane closure, not the merge behavior. People who spend too much time in their cars tend to be religious about the appropriateness of certain driving behaviors, and like any faith-based conviction, will tend to over-extrapolate empirical evidence to their context of choice.
I've been surprised by how useful this has been over the past few months. Just last week I busted my phone USB charger by accidentally knocking it off the table and bending the connector. This was around 10pm, so I ordered a new one and it arrived around 10am the next morning on my doorstep, well before my phone ran out of battery. Call it a first world problem, but same-day (or next morning) delivery is a minor but surprisingly convenient luxury.
I can echo your concerns because I ran into it with Spelunky recently - they seem to only support Xbox360 controllers as their "controller" settings. I solved it by using Joy2Key to map keys to my controller (a very solid Logitech one!) and had no problems.

However, most people probably wouldn't want to jump through those kind of hoops (downloading a third party app + mapping the keys to the right keyboard keys) so I'd love if Steam had some sort of unified controller support, but I also feel like that's asking for a lot.
What userland is there? It runs startx and launches Steam Big Picture, right?
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> a decentralized, floating and moving Internet that is impossible to hack, impossible to penetrate and vastly superior in terms of its facility and neutrality

You could probably get most of those things by chucking a disconnected unpowered switch or two in the ocean attached to floats but you wouldn't be able to send much data across it.
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On the other hand, does an IDE add that much value to python and clojure? For Java, I can see the benefits, but given that these scripting languages are much more lightweight, that's why emacs/vim do alright for them?
He did mention "decentralized", which is (possibly) a good sign.

And he seems pretty anti-authoritarian...
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Did nobody else read the Beta Terms of Agreement?

1. Valve Corporation ("Valve", "We", "Us" or "Our") has developed and produced prototypes of entertainment system hardware and software, including a set-top box running custom software and a game controller

A game controller...
If you can figure out the enemy dog is a fire type, you can switch your team up accordingly :)

Is state-of-the art for that kind of recognition deep learning?
The notion of a job/employment is a new one for the vast majority of the world's population, Americans included. Most people were peasants/subsistence farmers, or small time commercial farmers, or tradespeople (carpenter, blacksmith, furrier, etc.) who operated more like freelancers today than anything else. More recently, pre-WWI, many people were domestic servants, which is employment of course but not the same as working for a company today. Merchants are relatively new to human history. The legal construct of a company is much much newer than merchants.

The company-employment boom is clearly ending. When you look at human history -- even limited to "civilized" history -- it's pretty clear that mass employment was the exception, not the rule, and now it's going away.
I think the big difference is that the civil engineer doesn't actually lay the cement himself, but the software engineer does. This has a lot of ramifications about how each approaches the problems and sees themselves in context.
Doesn't Rich Hickey use emacs (aquamacs) for his development?
The appeal of the flying car is imaginary: what people immediately fantasize about is rolling out of their driveway, finding a clear stretch of road, and taking off.

Make that one hour commute a lovely fifteen minute flight!

But that can't actually happen. The month of driving practice needed to get a license becomes a year or more of pilot school. The damage inflicted by motor vehicle accidents is already horrendous enough without adding a thousand meters of altitude into the equation.
Cats look mostly alike in comparison to dogs. Although each feline has a unique face, the degree of variance is considerably higher in dogs.

This is mainly due to breeding. Dogs can vary between 8-80 lbs, depending upon breed - some will fit in handbags, others will barely fit into a car. Cats, on the other hand, have significantly less variation (between 8-25 lbs[1]).

Further complicating the problem is that we have bred some dogs specifically for facial features and shapes. An English Bulldog, for example, has a drastically different face than a Labrador.

However, the vast majority of cat breeds retain the same facial features and shape. Those that do vary (e.g, Siamese cats) differ by small amounts in comparison to dog breeds.

This is why building a "dog or cat" detector is reasonably straightforward (if it's not a cat, it must be a dog), but building a "dog, cat, or other" detector is far more complex.

[1]:http://www.petobesityprevention.com/ideal-weight-ranges/
I've never been able to play halo on a console, it feels far too inaccurate to me, now that I'm used to playing with a mouse.
>Half Life 3 confirmed?

If you take the time of the announcement (in seconds elapsed since midnight, March 14th 1993), divided by the amount of letters in the FAQ, and then find the square root of the resulting number, you get 3!

Seriously though, are you suggesting that HL3 will only be released (even for a short while) the SteamOS? I agree it's possible, but I think that would piss all kinds of people off due to it obviously being a marketing ploy.

I would imagine a more likely option for them are discounts for various games on the platform for a few weeks.
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Very true, but remember that the issue I'm addressing is more about branding and marketing than about the tech. For example:

"Wait, you mean I have to buy an XBox 360 controller to use my Steam Machine?"

Well, no, but it's better that way.

"What do you mean, isn't there a Steam Controller."

Not exactly, you see any Steam Machine is compatible with any number of controllers.

"So why can't I buy this other controller I saw at Best Buy?"

You can, but I can't guarantee you it'll work very well. I only use my 360 wired controller with it.

"Oh, ok. Well maybe I'll just get an XBox, then."

That's the kind of thing the Steam Alliance (or whatever they'll call it) will have to overcome.
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Doesn't the next generation of controller simply work over bluetooth? I know the DS3 already does. If that's the case, it shouldn't require any specialized hardware, since almost everything comes with bluetooth these days.
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So the only thing I learned from this is that its not a SteamBox, it is a SteamMachine.
From the sounds of it they're producing multiple different machines.

I can imagine it being like this

1) Top of the range high spec machine running SteamOS (£500-£600)
2) Medium spec machine running SteamOS (£250-£400)
3) Basic machine running SteamOS that's designed for people who just want to stream games from their Desktop PC into their living room (£60-£120)
Can you please provide more detail regarding how innovation is lacking?
It'll be interesting to hear if AMD's announcement today has anything to do with this.

http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-eventDetails&...
All it needs is a robot that says: "Come Here Boy, Come! That's a good doggie."

If the animal comes, it's a dog. If it continues without looking at you, it's a cat.
Seems like a non-problem. Self driving cars won't bunch up behind slow traffic, or will route around it.

Lots of cities move at bicycle speed or lower, and the only reason cyclists are not out in traffic lanes away from where they can be "doored" is aggressive drivers.

You might even decide to bike if it got safer.
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There's a critical difference between smartphones and planes, which is that a smartphone is better than a computer and a phone in some ways. It's more portable than a computer, which means you can use it in situations where neither a phone nor a computer will work, because the phone doesn't have the necessary functions and the computer is too big.

There is, I would argue, no situation where a roadable airplane is better than a normal airplane plus a car. It doesn't have to be better than both in all cases, but it has to be better than both for something.

For a smartphone, that "something" is extreme portability while still providing some computer functionality. A phone+computer doesn't let you reasonably read your e-mail while standing on a bun, for example.

I've yet to see any similar case for "flying cars".
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I want to praise the name choice. "Machine" is very catchy.
I was going to go with "Divide the land area of a state by the area of its convex hull. Which is the lowest percentage?"
This guy is the mad scientist of the tech world.
They haven't hyped HL3 or HL2E3, or even announced either of them. Kinda silly to blame them for not delivering something they never promised to deliver.
It sometimes feels a bit like a exploring a cave with a small flashlight. It's also fun when you start referring to the codebase as a patient. "Well, we can try this approach and see how she responds to it!"
the "c" verb is called "change"
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This is going to be entertaining...
> Why is this Apple's fault?

What? The airport deserves some of the blame for sure[1], but how is directing users onto an airport runway not put Apple at fault? If a maps app sends you driving up someone's driveway and through their property, would they not be at fault because it's physically accessible? In case you're a time traveler from the 90s, navigation apps generally are assumed to take you on legitimately navigable roadways, not physically accessible areas.

[1]It's worth noting that the article mentions that the road to the runway was replete with warning signs:
"They had to enter the airport property via a motion-activated gate, and afterwards there are many signs, lights and painted markings, first warning that aircraft may share the road and then that drivers should not be there at all. "They needed to drive over a mile with all this before reaching the runway. But the drivers disregarded all that because they were following the directions given on their iPhones."

Presumably there was access to the runway for maintenance, etc. I agree that they should have had barricades et al up in the first place.
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They want SteamOS to restructure the console market like Android did with the mobile market.

They give PC makers a great new customizable way to enter the livingroom-computer market. With their gaming shop built in.

This is great for gamers. In a few years any SteamMachine for 300$ will easily outperform PS4/XBone. And have way way more games. And all AAA games (all PC releases).
Note Phil's version is mutable and lacks the performance tweaks suited for an array-like data structure. There are enough modifications to the original idea to say that Rich Hickey invented the immutable Bitmapped Vector Trie.
but I think that would piss all kinds of people off due to it obviously being a marketing ploy.

You mean like HL2 and the original steam release?
I really hope Instacart and Postmates can compete with them! I see different use case for all of them. My first choice for groceries that i need the same day would be Instacart, i also love the on-demand food from great restaurants and the ability to get a few grocery items within the hour by Postmates and Google Shopping Express looks like a good Amazon alternative.
I'm rather skeptical about their in-home streaming option. In a world where games are buying LCDs to minimize input lag, what kind of a performance are they expecting from streaming a game over LAN?

I'm interested in knowing how this streaming is going to work. Is this similar to VNC?
Google Alerts pretty much only alerts me of news stories. Unless it would show up in Google News, new links never make it to my e-mail.

For example, a customer posted a nice video review of Improvely on YouTube today which I can find through Google limiting the date range to today with the "Search Tools" button. No e-mail from Google, despite the alert set up for the brand name.

On the other hand, I have one set up for "Surface Pro" and get daily e-mails when the big tech blogs mention it. Smaller blogs and forums, which are no doubt talking about Surface often too, never show up in those alerts. The e-mails even say "News" up top [1].

A few years ago, every mention would trigger an alert. Something did change. 3rd-party apps like Mention [2] alert me more often.

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2: https://en.mention.net/
"Learning never to use them is just as legitimate."

Indeed! I would from my experience not use Z80 assembler - though I like it much more than 6502 - and CP/M as an OS for a social media website.

I have the gut feeling though that your comment might be about Java, which might not be warranted. The last company I've worked for makes >$200M in profit a year and will be sold soon for >$1b - based on a Java platform. The next company I worked for was skyrocketing and sold for $200M - based on a Java platform. Both profited from good performance, stability and GC maturity during high periods of growth and load and a good pool of developers during peak hiring times.

But then we might differ in our goals and evaluation criteria, mine is about getting things done to support a business in a sustainable way.
This is a pretty recent change in how controller support works in (Windows? DirectX? not 100% sure) but basically any third party controller can register itself as an Xbox controller.

I have an older Logitech DualAction and a newer one, the older one will fail those checks but the newer will register itself as an Xbox controller. It seems like Microsoft, somewhere, standardized what it means to be a "controller" finally instead of having an arbitrary button0 through button10 that are always different and constantly requiring remapping.

A good change, but really frustrating for anyone with older hardware.
Author here: I think you talk about the persistent hashmaps, not the persistent vectors. I've been looking for papers explaining Clojure's persistent collections, and Bagwell seems to cover the hash maps and hash sets quite well. However, I've not seen a paper on the persistent vectors, which was quite a bummer, and that was the reason I started explaining them in the first place.

If you have a reference to a paper explaining something similar (or the actual implementation), I'd love to put it in the post for others.
More likely, you'll buy a SteamController as the preferred input on your SteamBox. In fact, they are basically teasing as much at the bottom of the page. Friday's announcement looks to be controller related.
I too have been thinking about writing some Mac Apps, as a way to learn ObjectiveC - with an intention to move to iPhone apps afterwards. This article has made me reconsider that ordering!
looks for a tl;dr version...
Agreed, there really needs to be some type of official controller. I'm assuming whatever input device they come up with be bundled with Valve's own Steamboxes, and available for purchase separately. Also, I wonder if there are agreements for other hardware manufacturers to bundle that same device.

This way, all games have a standard controller to develop towards. Everyone loves the Xbox controller, not only because it's a solid device, but because it's the standard controller for PC gaming. Most games are developed with it in mind, so it's typically plug and play. For this reason, I'm going to assume Valve launches a controller that has a similar configuration to the 360 controller, so all the previous games designed for the 360 controller are ready to go. However, it'll probably have some misc tweaks, like buttons to perform certain tasks within the Steam software, and perhaps a touchpad, pull out mini-keyboard or improved motion controls.

I'm not going to worry about people going to Radio Shack or Best Buy and randomly shopping for controllers. I think Valve has this under control, and we'll have THE controller, and third party controllers, similar to any other gaming console.
Tiark & Bagwell cover Rich Hickey's modifications and come up with some pretty cool improvements of their own in their paper on RRB-Trees, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/169879/files/RMTrees.pdf
Seems like Docker will be the way to go soon. I’m most excited about parallelizing tests and shipping docker diffs from development, to testing, to staging, to production. I’m sure we’ll see startups tackle this level of integration with a suite of tools.
Oh, that makes sense. But I simply assumed that the SteamBoxes (the official ones made by Valve that is) will come bundled with a controller. We just have to hope it'll be a good one (unlike the Ouya...).
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I was really pulling for "GabeCube".
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Interesting how this has been happening since back then and we are still surprised by it. I don't have the numbers, but without Android and Ubuntu it would seem much less appealing then nowadays. I wonder if any of these actually are in place and working, and what is keeping anyone from trying again.
On a side note, is open source peer-reviewed software really more secure than closed source? It is a choice between trusting a single entity to make safe programs and not purposefully put backdoors on the code and trusting lots of entities to make safe code, not purposefully backdoor it and trusting the reviewer's abilities.
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I would not have thought the above comment was offensive. Perhaps somebody doesn't like having his/her choice of language questioned??? (whether it was Java, or C, dunno)

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Very cool, added it to my iPad! Thank you!
XBox wired controller works well with mac as well thanks to the open source driver (http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Xbox360Controll...).

I have never faced any issue using the controller to play steam games on my mac.
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What good or service do you believe the median male has less of today than he had in 1968?

If your claim is correct, it shouldn't be hard to answer this question.
Why on earth have they not called the hardware "Steam Engine" instead of these strange other names?