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> It's not a moral choice, it's a decision based on size and shape.

A baby crawling on the road is the same size and shape (roughly) as, say, a dog. In that situation the choice is a moral one, whether the robot knows it or not.

This is not a hypothetical scenario: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1279639/Bus-driver-c...
Uber wins on latency and that is it. An actual taxi costs less.
Let's not forget that one of the most successful attack vectors is social engineering, that is, tricking people into trusting you and making you part of the WoT.
Actually there is, IMHO.

Chinese is in fact a group of spoken languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and Southern Min. These are completely different languages at least in tones and pronunciations. Mandarin speakers could hardly talk to Cantonese speakers.

But all these languages share a common character set, so that different dialect speakers can communicate in the written form even they couldn't understand each other orally.

Traditional Japanese (and similarly Traditional Korean and Traditional Vietnamese) uses a subset of Chinese characters which they call "Kanji". And "writing down the characters" (Bitan, 筆談) had been a very effective way of communication between Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese until the last century.
Imagine a strip of paper bent into a U. You can travel from one end of the strip to the other through 3D space with a much shorter distance than along the entire paper.
I tried this indoors at my company as I dont have an iDevice.
It didn't work all that well and I was completely underwhelmed. The lighting was poor but I don't understand how poor lighting can affect this algorithm.
Social Darwinism?

Edit - I am not meaning this in its worst excesses, though I am meaning it pejoratively.

Just because there are 4 bases on DNA doesn't mean anything about what makes a good written language.

This is because they are not letters in a language, at least not as we commonly understand letters or language.

Those are just the labels we have given them as they were some of the closest metaphors to hand.

We could have called them notes and it would work just as well.

However that would have no bearing on the best ways to write music.
You can't compile a list of edge cases for this kind of thing, because it is impossible to know the comprehensive list of all the situations the car won't handle correctly.

In the end, you need a learning technology that can properly adapt to any possible situation and give a decent response. Maybe it can be done, but we certainly aren't there yet and I'm skeptical as to the the tractability of the last bit of the problem.
That's what key revocation is about though: its an assumption that the WoT will get things wrong, but that we'll be able to retroactively undo some problems.

Conversely, it is why anonymity is an orthogonal goal for non-realtime communications.
Liliputing is claiming the first batch of those board will be given away for free[0]. However i can not see the same information on the blog post for Imagination.

[0]: http://liliputing.com/2014/08/imagination-giving-away-first-...
how many lawmakers are going to say "Sure, only .001% of robot cars on the road get into catastrophic accidents in unhandled situations, that's fine, let's make these things legal"?

If they're actually thinking properly (doubtful), they'll look at the rate of catastrophic accidents with human drivers, and make a call based on whether or not self-driving cars are an improvement.
>>Did they really weigh the life of the rabbit against death and injury of seven people?

I would say yes. Firstly I would see what the driver actually did. Did the driver have the seven people in plain sight when he/she made that decision? But for sure the driver did make a moral decision to save the Rabbit's life. It would have even been the case where the person thought he could save the rabbit's life without harming the humans. So you have to make decisions which are purely not mathematical here.

>>could easily use the heuristic that hitting the small thing is safer than hitting the big thing.

How would this hold against hitting some one below average height versus hitting some one tall. Or running over a baby Vs an aged person.

Right there are all kinds of moral dilemma.
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I still have some ColdFires in an embedded product of the company I work in. The biggest chips even have a full-blown MMU built in. Can be made to run Linux (2.6.x.) just fine, but the toolchains (e.g. gcc) seem to have somewhat bit-rottet, unfortunately.
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Not quite. I would define common sense as "a reasonable fallback solution given that the current situation is unfamiliar." This is something AI systems have a LOT of difficulty with, the self-driving car being no exception.
The page with lots of images on a tiny ARM board is not made for Hackernews traffic. Not a good idea to submit it to Hackernews. Sorry.
Any update on the demo link?
Which tasks are hard to accomplish?
You realize you can tell it to use your system default to read a given format right its under behavior in preferences
No, people from Beijing cannot read a text written in Shanghainese using simplified script. The only reason why they can read Cantonese is because pop music from Hong Kong is popular enough that most kids teach themselves enough to get the jist of the written lyrics.

> But all these languages share a common character set, so that different dialect speakers can communicate in the written form even they couldn't understand each other orally.

Since everyone in China is taught mandarin Chinese they tend to write to each other in mandarin.
I thought this did not disprove the previous theory. It just refined it, showing that it can be a 'sheet' of ice instead of a 'slab'.

I read about his theory about a year ago, and it described thin sheets of ice then, also.
I guess my thinking is, rather than collect small donations for individuals...use their individual stories to collect funds for the pool. I don't think any of these schools are accredited given their is no accreditation for software engineer out there.
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Recently I made an application for a client, and realised later that my asking price was quite less. And I am binded to complete the application rather asking for more. Basically there were more functionalities than expected.
Imagine a Kickstarter campaign to drop iPods over North Korea. Boy this would be fun.
But you don't choose the same characters for the same words in Shanghainese as in Mandarin as in Cantonese.
Whine much please provide an example of a) an application like calibre with a better ui and similar features or b) how the ui should work.
Is the information density measured in bits and bytes still higher?
I'm not blaming the driver for making an immoral decision but I am saying that many more experienced drivers would not have swerved. For example, when driving in Africa where stray dogs are common, my father had a pre-determined policy not to swerve to avoid them given that it increased the probability of an accident involving human injury.

As I say in a separate comment that "small thing" may be human baby or toddler on the road.
This is HUGE for foreign English speakers like yours truly. Thanks OP
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I read the article and as near as I can tell a Chinese person worked in Arizona's 'Intelligence Fusion Center' and then left suddenly.

That's it. No evidence of any impropriety, no charges were filed, nothing. I don't understand the reason for the article.
Sure. But if you are willing to trust some CA to issue me a HTTPS cert for my domain, why are you not willing to trust that I serve my public key for this domain suing this HTTPS cert to secure its transport? Oh, sure some adversary could gain control of the web server used for this and replace my pub.pem, but then I will notice and revoke it. And once enough people download and sign my pub.pem, it no longer matters: I am now in the WoT and can remove pub.pem.
Figures that the cause for one of the biggest government abuses in history is the extension of the president's power. It's like humans never learn. Never give a single man too much power.

AUMF is just as bad, too. Did you know US is effectively still in a "state of emergency", today? - and will probably continue to be for long, long, LONG time, if nobody does anything about it.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-w...
For most medium sized companies, hiring is an important but very time consuming process. So, almost every part of the process is designed to scale as the company grows. While there are companies which have a take-home problem, most will require you to write code on a whiteboarding discussion in a face-to-face round later anyway.

My suggestion here will be to take a few interviews without much expectations and to use them as opportunities to get better at this. There are going to be many times when you will be sharing your code with your colleagues - e.g. during code reviews, pair programming etc. and whether you like it or not, people are always evaluating you even in those cases :)
> Why is it false then?

Some theoretical answers have been given already.

From a practical perspective: In order to transmit any meaningful data through a quantum-entangled channel, you always need an additional classic channel as well. QE alone cannot transmit any information. The only reason then to use QE for data transmission is that it makes the transmission tamper-proof.
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I'm sorry "English", but the whole idea of "spelling bee" is ridiculous to begin with, and excuse me "China" - same goes for you, but in writing...

Give me sane language with small alphabet, and whatever you speak is whatever you write (and vice versa).

Just kidding!
I don't think saying China didn't see and learn from the failing aspects of American city planning is fair or useful, especially when it comes to road planning. The Chinese and American culture on road use is completely different: (power/gas) scooters and (regular) bikes are extremely popular in Beijing, and Chinese drivers are generally much more aggressive. Because of this, most road users, including bikers, are capable of driving defensively against other road users. Most bikers/scooter-ers are already comfortable with weaving between cars on their commute. Would a segregated lane make commuting on smaller vehicles safer? Undoubtedly. Would it be necessary to incentivize biking over driving larger vehicles? Probably not.

This, along with other problems, like an exponentially expanding middle class population that can suddenly afford vehicles, is only one of the many different challenges most western governments have not experienced, which China currently faces. It may be unfair to quickly jump to conclusions and simply say the Chinese have not learned from the history of urban planning by western countries, when there are very few references from which the Chinese government can draw on, for the unique problems that they are facing.

TL;DR: Chinese urban centers have problems that cities in Western countries have not faced.
I think what this signals is not that there is something particularly backwards about China.

Chinese suburban sprawl shows that no matter the style of governance or how markets deal with housing, it seems like people converge on the same poor urban planning practices.

Or, you could interpret the similar mistakes as proof that real estate in America is dealt with in a way that's far from free. Texas, the heart of the mainstream right, is where much of the sprawl is. In the greatest irony, the strongly-left economist Paul Krugman is saying Texas has economically positive liberal housing laws.[1]

Does the liberalization of housing law lead to sprawl? How could a place with top down bureaucracy like China produce the same outcome as right Texas with left-approved policy?

It's all a big mess. Nobody has figured out modern living in an efficient way, I think. I don't think Paul Krugman, Rick Perry, San Francisco housing reform activists, San Francisco status-quo activists, AirBnb, etc. have the answers.

The natural experiment in China shows radically different laws and market practices still lead to problems. No one has figured out an optimal idea for land ownership and housing.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/opinion/paul-krugman-wrong...
I'm affraid that happened already. Look at the US debt.
>>Try circumnavigating Connaught Place on any day for a taster, or try taking the main highway north from New Delhi any distance.

That's like the easiest of the tests you give.

The difficult ones require record precision gear-clutch-accelerator usage, to move vehicle in measures of inches in case of grid locks in some places in India. This is beyond the fact that it may raining heavily, and you might be navigating through huge pot holes, with garbage, beggars and stray dogs on streets.

Well then nothing can give you true idea until you drive here.
> No, people from Beijing cannot read a text written in Shanghainese using simplified script.

I'm not a native of Shanghai but I still get to understand written Shanghainese. Because even though I can't _read_ it, I can somehow _interpret_ it. It uses the same Chinese characters and I already knew what these characters mean.

> Since everyone in China is taught mandarin Chinese they tend to write to each other in mandarin.

There are still people native to Cantonese, Min Nan, or Hakka who don't speak Mandarin.
Apparently that simple idea was lost at the highest levels of management during the YEARS they wantonly colluded with other tech companies, including competitors to suppress wages and cross hiring of the most talented technologists, plundering BILLIONS from the very people they claim to hold in the highest regard. Not only is that conniving, backstabbing behavior reprehensible and the epitome of "being evil" in a modern civilized society, they managed to come off looking like weak, bumbling cowards in the process. And if their attempts to suppress explicit evidence clearly detailing their feudalistic aspirations wasn't proof enough, they come back with a blatantly laughable settlement offer to make it official. Don't be fooled by the propaganda - actions always speak louder than words and Google has made clear where they stand.

I've been working in investment banking technology for top tier firms for nearly a decade and can't recall any cases where trends of thousands of current and past employees laid a billion dollar class action lawsuit on their employers. And this in a sector which employs FAR more people and is regularly accused of working employees literally to death. You've got a lot of growing up to do, Google - and I can rightfully express that sentiment in the most condescending tone possible from the safety of my moral high ground.
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A Game Dev Incubator (commune?) in the US?
Game development incubators exist, but last I looked, they're all filled and accepting no new applicants. This would be for obvious reasons - everyone wants to be incubated, but few individuals have the resources to incubate.

So what the hell are the rest of us supposed to do?

I'll tell you what I think the rest of us might do.

Instead of hoping for some established individual to come along and provide a sanctuary for our game development dream, let's see if we can pool our resources and make our own incubator. It can't be impossible, can it?

For example, me, personally, I don't have much in the way of money, but I have a house in my family that is available for use as an incubation facility. So that covers rent for everyone once everyone busses in there to live. Maybe someone else out there has a bit of savings that could cover our food. And maybe someone else out there has a car we can do collective transportation with.

You see where I'm going? Maybe this is less of an incubator than a commune, but I mean shit, if we don't do this ourselves, who's going to do it?

I know the idea sounds crazy, but it's so incredibly frustrating to me that game development requires so few resources (a place to crash and some food) that there's gotta be a solution when we pool our resources.

Am I crazy? Or is this something that should be tried? Otherwise, I don't see how we won't all eventually get sucked back into a 9-5, our dreams out of our reach.
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I loaded in a MailChimp list with ~150 names but didn't get any preview, just a loading screen with an overlaid button that says "Fetch all 25 emails for $5.00"
I agree, and I would argue that this type of development is more economic. People want cars because they will take you everywhere. Why are the futurists arguing for an outmoded dense city life, just so they can stare at their iPhones on the bus? Just look at the price of land or housing in dense areas and how they inevitably become centers for the wealthy.
I think that's often true for blue-sky projects. And I agree that a better understanding of the problem can lead to a reduction in complexity, but you cannot always afford it.
Can you clarify why having two animation paths makes 5 dimensions? Surely the dimension is time, you're just deforming the 3 spatial dimensions along two different paths as you progress uniformly along the 4th?
I think IM is a bit of a misnomer when applied to products like Kato. Persistence, sync across devices, and instant search make it a lot more like "multi-person, temporally-organized Evernote, with real-time feedback", which is closer to replacing email than IM.

For what it's worth, the Kato team so far hasn't sent a single internal email over the history of the company. (We're distributed across ~15 cities.)
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>How could a place with top down bureaucracy like China produce the same outcome as right Texas with left-approved policy?

Because they're both the product of private developers working on isolated blocks of land. Their concern is fast ROI, which doesn't coincide with what's good for quality of life or the long term.
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I hope this works out. If enough of the big email vendors (gmail, outlook, yahoo, etc.) get on board the network effect could be enough to push adoption to a very high percentage.

Once that happens my "unencrypted" email folder would be viewed about as often as my junk mail folder.

And then... maybe just maybe... spammers will be faced with a serious challenge.
CoffeeScript novice here. Can someone please tell me why/why not coffee script should be used rather than JS? Is it usable in serious prod level projects? Looks very clean.
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What's interesting is that the "office" of president has grown into countless agencies and sub-agencies, each with their own motives, political will, and desire for survival. It's like Daenerys with her dragons: completely under command, yet good luck ordering them not to eat the local children.
A character is more like a word though.

I really get screwed when I have to fill out a bilingual form and they want me to describe something in N characters (which it says in both English AND Chinese...doh!). This is just bias against us laowai!
Contracts are never really set in stone. You can always go back to the client and ask to renegotiate terms, especially if the situation has changed because you've learned new things about the project. A good contract will have discovery terms already set out.

If you're going back because you didn't do your job properly when you were gathering the project requirements and defining the scope you'll look like an amateur and you'll probably lose any future work from the client, but going back to the table to renegotiate even then is still an option. As far as the client is concerned it might well be better to pay you more money than have you give up on the project. Finding a new developer is hard. But don't assume they'll say yes to paying more either - sometimes finding a new developer is easier than sticking with one who ed up.
That's a good question.

My guess is that Google is still much too young a company to esperience any of the issues. Maybe once the founders are out for good, and we see more tradtional MBA-style leadership, the traditional illnesses will start emerging too.

Up to now Google has avoided the problem by consistently biting off more than it can chew, landing some borderline-success and improving on from there. This is what they did with search, advertising, book digitalization, online videos, etc. In short, there wasn't much need for internal competition, since they were actively looking for new challenges from the outside.

It's great that they're doing all of this, but I'm curious whether at some point (a few decades from now) they'll eventually decide that all the effort isn't really worth it and focus only on the high-margin stuff.
Accidents are usually caused by human unpredictability, lack of attention, terrible reaction time, stupidity, narrow perception, inability to follow traffic rules, and the effects of various drugs. Driverless cars mitigate all of these issues.

I would feel much better riding a bike in the vicinity of a self-driving vehicle than any random human.

There are a number of issues to iron out yet and a lot of testing to do. But make no mistake, they're already far better.
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Way higher. Partly due to the writing and partly due to grammar. Isolated concepts tend to use two Chinese characters, or 4 bytes, which is typically denser than English already. But on top of that English spends a lot of characters on structure - words that are required grammatically but don't change the meaning of the sentence. Chinese's famously simple grammar doesn't do that.
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Author is laughably clueless about history. Crossbows date back to the 5th century BC (in both China and ancient Greece), long before the invention of plate armor. Also, mounted knights in armor collecting taxes? Sure, just like the IRS sends tanks instead of demand letters...not. Historically medieval armies included heavy cavalry like knights and crossbow and longbow archers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossbow#History is not exhaustic but reasonably well referenced.
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You must be joking. Mandarin is not a written system at all. Even though I don't have the passion for HongKong pop music, I have no problem understanding traditional writing at all, cause it is just so similar to simplied one.
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Best of class UI requires at least 60fps consistently, not just for games. Of course JavaScript is not great here, but this can be achieved now on the latest mobile browsers.

First run time is important, and interpreters are faster in this case. Also, JavaScript can execute as it is downloaded. I can load a whole UI, and complete my task before the JVM has loaded the code.

Also, at least Firefox does AOT on JavaScript now. This is how I load and start executing 1.2MB of JavaScript in 50ms in the app I'm currently producing.
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