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I think the problem is, people really don't care about autonomous objects.

There is so many unknowns with this, it's really hard to know. Like if the self-driving car gets in an accident (that is a result of the self-driving car), who is responsible? Google? Me? Other driver? Car maker? Car seller? Insurance company?

Humans have kind of accepted that humans make mistakes, you're trained from day 1 to when you die, humans make mistakes. It's a bit different when it's a program with a giant state machine.
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One of the things that drew me to use Airbnb several years ago was the ability to book a stay somewhere that was less expensive yet more interesting.

I was recently looking for a place in Chicago as well as Kyoto and had a hard time finding listings that weren't dirty looking, had no charm, or weren't just as expensive as a hotel. I'm sure they exist, but there are just so many listings in some cities, sifting through them can be a real pain.
> Traits are interfaces

So why not use "interface" keyword?
Well, lights are often programmed with revenue in mind, as opposed to safety.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-red-light-camera-yello...

http://time.com/3505994/red-light-camera-problems-tickets/
I don't think it's unfair to say that the farcical invocation of interstate commerce in the repassage of the GFSA bolsters my point rather than refutes it... and the courts seem largely willing to go along with even the thinnest of rationales for Congress to legislate on matters for which it really has no Constitutional authority.
There are good game-theoretic reasons why that is just a band-aid solution, compared to empowering citizens to apply some form of pressure to officers.
I think you are coming from the perspective of someone who knows the game pretty well. To the uninitiated I could see it taking a year. I remember when I first started (when the cap was 60) and it seemed to take forever for me to get there. Mostly because I went to different areas and explored, didn't level the most efficient way etc.
> PDF viewer. Chrome is the only non-awful PDF viewer I've found for Windows. Requires third-party install.

The built-in viewer that shipped with 8 is no-frills (like Chrome's), but works well enough. If you have touch/pointer input, you can annotate and sign PDFs in that viewer too, which is great on a Surface.

> It'd be useful to be able to mute an application from the OS interface, and to see an indicator for audio activity ion something like the task manager.

This has been possible since 7, I think? Maybe 8.

> Would be good if you could choose a filesystem that had strong performance with git. Either make git+NTFS fast, or else offer a well-support FS that git does want to work on.

Not sure I understand this one. I've been using git on both OS X and Windows for years and haven't noticed any perf issue on my Windows machines (coming from SVN, granted). Is there something I'm missing, maybe with particular git features I don't use?
Navigating places like parking lots, drive-thrus, garages, driveways, off-road, etc., gets pretty arbitrary. There's not much a self-driving car could even do for you, so manual controls will always be necessary.
Ed largely opposes mass surveillance, etc. See some of his posts on Freedom to Tinker: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/author/felten/
Encapsulation patterns in AngularJS
Volvo Lifepaint: the best way to survive a crash is not to crash
Parking is one of the easiest and most valuable things to automate; it's finicky and humans basically suck at it. Self-driving cars may have manual controls but it probably won't be driven by parking.
>- allows traits to be implemented for existing types, as opposed
> to C++ where the type's declaration has to list all base classes.

>- allows a type to be used through dynamic dispatch while allowing users
> who don't need this to avoid the vtable overhead.

In C++ you can have this as well. For example, std::function is able to wrap any callable type without them having to have any base classes. Sean Parent gives a great talk about this: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Inheritance...
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Is employment via Open Source contribution really as widespread as he suggests?

Any examples of (smaller than a distro) projects with known paid contributors?
>I programmed my brain to do this after learning to drive in Miami.

Same after living in Orlando and now New York. Just because you have the right of way doesn't mean it's safe.

The 2 ton block of metal that hits your meaty body at 45 miles per hour doesn't care that societal rules said you were safe to cross.
Oh look it's another Identity and Access Management for The Real World company trying to turn your phone into the Thing That Unlocks. Interestingly enough there's actually not a lot of companies out there trying to be this ambitious about using your phone to unlock things- sure there's Lockitron and Knock[1] but those are individual apps, not one huge holistic app that will replace username/password combos for online and software plus replace anything else that requires you to verify your identity in some way (credit card transactions, Gov ID, School ID, keycard for work, etc etc).

As of a year ago when I was working for a company trying to make pretty much this exact product, the prevailing wisdom was you'd secure it with biometrics (for those of you wondering how you'd secure it if your bookie beat you up and stole your iWatch).

Why it won't work, and why it didn't work for the company I worked for (and why I got laid off), and why it will probably never ever work in the way that everyone envisions is that getting all these disparate entities to agree to utilize this one app for access management just WILL. NOT. HAPPEN. As a company trying to build an app like this, you have to negotiate with every entity separately- so you have to negotiate with every state separately if you want to display state IDs on a mobile phone and have that be an accepted display method (didn't work- they wouldn't even talk to us). You have to negotiate with every separate credit card issuer who are all working on their own "Use your mobile as a credit card" idea. You have to negotiate with every separate access management company (Assa Abloy, etc etc) who are all ALSO working on their own mobile app to replace keycards... and on and on and on.

Plus then on top of all that there's Apple, who wants the mobile phone to be the ubiquitous access device more than any other company out there, and who actually has the time and the money and the chops and the influence to make it happen, if anyone can make it happen. It's an impossible goal right out of the gate, and if you scale down the operation at all (focusing on logical access instead of logical + physical, for example) there's already an app that does it and does it better and has been doing it for longer.

AND THEN you get to the consumer side of things where instead of simply typing in a username and password to get into a website (the standard way) or whacking your iPhone a preset number of times (as with Knock) you have to pull out your phone, unlock your phone, go to the app, scan the QR code or whatever, and then hope that the servers haven't crapped themselves for the tenth time today and will let you log into your damned computer already.

No, I'm not pessimistic, why do you ask?

[1]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/knock-unlock-your-mac-withou...
I doubt it will be outlawed. You can still ride horses on public streets in most places (probably not freeways I imagine), but most people of course don't. In the same way you probably will be able to drive cars manually indefinitely, even while most will choose to use autonomous vehicles.
errata: The Onyx BOOX M96 - 9.7" has just 1200x825 pixels as written on the box (actually in Polish it has 1280x825). That's indeed VERY low in DPI compared my various Kindles, and yet this is a honestly engineered PDF reader - beating all what Amazon has in the PDF department for 2-column academic papers. Despite its low DPI, which is its major flaw...

I love sending HTML pages to my kindles for proper reading, and regret that even with Calibre most tech PDFs are just too small, greyish low contrast for reading.

The Sony DPS has 2x the resolution (still insufficient by 10x to compete with paper) and 2.5x the price, while unable to cope with anything else than PDF.

Kindles and Kobos HD have nearly 300dpi, though too small and restricted to their own format and a poor WWW experience.

It's the 1st time that i praise a reader that's neither high DPI (blame the eInk monopoly for stagnation in this field), nor of highly polished (pun intended) quality, nor cheap (at $350 is 3-4x more than sundry Kindles/Fire), nor easy to use for the common iCrowd.

Yet the M96 proves that a generic Android with decent PDF rendering and supporting all the ePub, mobi/azw, MSO files is doable... even in monochrome and lacking video. I'm glad i bought it against all odds and specs, as support of honest engineering and risk taking companies.

Its basics are right, it's a device for geeks, students, nerds and pros willing to accept all the compromises enumerated above and in emp_zealoth's post (+1) in return for sparing their eyes from glowing/glaring LCDs and OLEDs.

With about 10x the current resolution for a 13" panel with perhaps 3-4 colors, this could become in a few years the ultimate ereader and paper replacement.
Oh indeed, SF has excellent public transport, for the US.

Manhattan has a great metro, but buses for the last mile are non existent. However they are not as critical as say in london.
It's not arm as ARM architecture, it's just a russian acronym.
Thank you for all your feedback again! You were not harsh at all and I can't help but agree with you. We'll try to improve it on the front end and back end and if we make enough money, we'll hire a professional designer.
This is neat... I love projects like this. When the number of clusters is unknown or hard to predict ahead of time, I'd lean toward something like affinity propagation or mean-shift. Why k-means?

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/cluster/plot_af...
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/cluster/plot_me...
Because its easier to accept it if it was a humans fault, not some piece of code.
Are you asking why peds are required to press a button at some intersections for a walk signal?

If so, consider that some intersections may require a long time (~45 seconds) for a ped to cross. When no one is crossing, this may be sub-optimal and a shorter time for that specific light combination should be used.
The few truly new features that have come along are not really emulate-able. Things like 64 bit, or new secure modes.

Most everything else has been bundles of hardware accelerated instructions for performance gains on popular data classes (see: MMX, AVX256, etc).

It's rare you run into software that doesn't have multiple codepaths, leveraging an extension if you have it and bypassing it if you don't.

Extensions that you are defacto required to have are so old, you almost certainly have them anyway. MMX was introduced in 1997 in the P5. MMX support will not be the first problem on your list if you're trying to run modern software on a P4.
> As far as physical hardship, look at all the folks with carpal tunnel syndrome, obesity, diabetes, bad backs from slouching, or any of the other issues endemic to white-collar long-hour development work.

These aren't problems inherent in the profession. Not every white-collar worker is fat with diabetes. Plenty of developers find time to work out and take care of themselves, and being part of this 10% affords them the luxury to get a gym membership or buy healthy food.

This is very different than someone who puts in grueling hours of manual labor or makes a wage that puts them below the poverty line, forcing them to eat cheap, unhealthy food every day.
I see this being the most plausible thing to happen. Separate insurance classes for manual and automatic cars, the costs of each being supported by their perspective groups.

However that begs the question: by sheer numbers would that make insurance on a automatic car comparable to a manually driven one? If there are significantly less manual cars, there are less accidents to pay out. An accident in a manual car is not a guarantee just like no accidents in automatic cars is not a guarantee.

I think if manual insurance was more expensive it would be an artificial premium based on the fear of something happening.
“I lead a cryonics team and freeze people's brains for a living”
EDNS0 extends this to 4096, and it seems pretty well supported.

You can use ECC in DNSSEC, though not many people do yet.
Is "autocar" a thing?

The ambiguity between automatic/automobile/autonomous really makes me hope a better word surfaces.

Self-driving car is a bit too long.
Thanks for sharing that! I've had the same experience with every event I've run, or helped run.

I wanted to include something about that in my post, but I wasn't sure how to make a statement like that without some social or statistical proof. I strongly believe that focusing on attendees will bring more benefits to the organizers and sponsors than if you focused on the organizers or sponsors initially.
Can you give me some examples of what google might reasonably do with my data that can negatively affect my life to the same magnitude as what the police/government might reasonably do?

Ideally, maybe no one should track my every move. But to talk about police and google in the same sentence in terms of ramifications is so far off I can't be anything but incredulous :)
Your economic references are incorrect.

1) Unemployment levels are not low, yet. U6 is about 11%. It was 8% in 2007, and 7% in 2001. The labor force participation rate is at a 40 year low. Full-time employment has seen zero net gain in over a decade, despite a population increase of 30 million people.

2) US GDP growth has seen zero improvement. The GDP growth rate the last five years is lower than it has been in all of US history outside of recessions (the average rate of growth from the 1940s to 2007 was about 3.5% +/-). There has been no acceleration.

Growth rates - 2010: 2.5%; 2011: 1.6%; 2012: 2.3%; 2013: 2.2%; 2014: 2.4%

These growth rates required 0% interest rates, $8 trillion in new public debt, and trillions in Fed stimulus.

This latest quarter required a -0.1% inflation adjuster (only the second time that has happened in 65 years...) to keep the economy from printing another negative GDP growth quarter.

The oil and fossil fuels collar has not been removed from the US economy. Electricity prices are at all-time record highs. And when it comes to oil and gasoline, an extraordinarily small % of vehicles run on electricity; Tesla hasn't boosted GDP growth what-so-ever yet, their scale simply is not big enough.

I see no evidence that an oil collar has been removed, nor that solar is meaningfully boosting GDP growth at this point.
Agree with all of your points! A lot of them could be addressed by powershell (unfortunately). I have no idea what they were thinking with powershell. They pretty much just had to give people bash + all the unix command line favourites on Windows and somehow they arrived at Powershell. It's like they made a deliberate effort to make something different when the unix way is already tried, tested and loved. It seems to me that they were shooting for the simplicity of bash, but with the power of .NET. Unfortunately the middle ground between the two is useless. Why, why, why, whyyyyy :(
My first reaction is: "This won't work because you'll have to get every business, government, and other entity to agree to use it. Which they won't."
We went through the Lamaze classes where they tell you all the things you'll be doing to help your wife birth your first child. Then we went to the delivery room where the nurses pointed next to my wife's head and said, "you stand here" while they did all the things I thought I was supposed to do.

And, honestly, I didn't mind. It was nice letting the professionals do their jobs and I could sort of be a cheerleader (bad term but its the best I can come up with at the moment) and witness the birth of my child.
Something that this article hasn't touched on, but I'm sure will be a big issue in the coming years, is the legality of Airbnb's service. Right now they are cruising along without much risk in that area, but that's only because its a new service. Here in Portland there are already some people who are purchasing properties from out of town just so they can rent on Airbnb, which for our town is putting even more stress on the exploding rent market. I have a feeling the other foot is going to drop on many of these sharing services at some point.

source: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-23993-hotel_california...

Not that I'm personally against the service, I think its a great alternative to traditional motels/hotels, but it should be more for people looking to share an unused room than as a way to get more bang for their buck on their rent.
Ah yes, now I remember Zardoz, with the Apathetics who have grown weary of immortality.
When visiting Vietnam, I was told to look straight ahead, and move at a consistent and predictable pace. The drivers are used to moving around pedestrians. Its a wild sensation.
I know that one of the libsass developers is paid to work on it.
John Peel's opinion on the Police has a lot more to do with bass lines and guitar parts than community involvement.
I would say the psychological riddle is why people feel an urge to treat consciousness as an irreducible quality.
The trumpet can be played one-handed, actually. Gets a little heavy after a while, but you can rest the bell on the dashboard. Also you won't be able to use the first and third valve slides to correct the lower notes, but who's listening?
"The toilet in the powder room is so visionary, and the surrounding dimmer lights so flattering, that I had to study it for some time to figure out how it flushed."

What is this toilet???
A good sergeant in Russian army boot-camp can make a robot out of any freshly drafted organic.
Elbrus is a mature project with quite a bit of history, going all the way back to the mid 70s. It was state-funded so it went through several periods of stagnation and got nearly scraped off at some point, but back when I was in the Uni many CS profs spoke with a great deal of reverence of both the project itself and those working on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_%28computer%29
Laywers in a class-action should have to accept the same currency in the claim as their "clients"--they get a pile of discount vouchers instead of a pile of cash.
two self-driving cars, from different owners, crash: who is going to pay for that?
Your only argument seems to be that people should be allowed to do/have things that they like. I don't think this a very strong argument. We can come up a long list of things that people like(d) are no longer allowed because they are considered too harmful.
I'm looking forward to when all of the self-driving cars will be so good at avoiding accidents that you can just take a manually-driven car and blast down the center of the road at 10-20 mph over the speed limit and watch all of the self-driven cars just move out of your way.
Here is more information from official site [1,4,5]:

- native "Elbrus" ISA or x86 ISA,

- Ebrus ISA is VLIW, can dispatch 23 operations per cycle (33 with SIMD), in-order execution,

- it's stated that x86 code translation + register allocation is done in HW, but later they write about a software translator and full-system emulator,

- 6 ALUs (all support integer operations, 4 can do FP),

- 256 x 84-bit register file,

- hardware support for loops, including pipelining,

- some kind of module for async mem preloading,

- speculative execution and branching predicates,

- "4S" model has 4 cores,

- 800 Mhz core clock,

- 64 KB L1, 128 KB L2, 8 MB L3 (shared between cores),

- 3 DDR3-1600 interfaces, ECC support,

- 3 x 12GBytes/s inter-CPU links, support for up to 4 sockets,

- 65nm process, 380 mm^2 die size, 986e6 transistors,

- software is based on Linux 2.6.33 and Debian 5.0 with more than 3000 packages.

There are some benchmarks for older chip model "2S" (overclocked to 500MHz, 2 cores) [2,3]. FP performance is about 1-5x of Pentium M 1GHz (1 core?) depending on benchmark, integer performance is about 1x. New CPU, "4S", should be 3 times faster than "2S".

[1] http://www.elbrus.ru/arhitektura_elbrus

[2] http://www.elbrus.ru/files/535269/9f0cd8/50606f/000000/2014-...

[3] http://www.elbrus.ru/files/535269/0e0cd8/50586f/000000/2014-...

[4] http://www.mcst.ru/mikroprocessor-elbrus4s

[5] http://www.mcst.ru/mikroprocessor-elbrus4s-gotov-k-serijnomu...

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Edit: loop pipeling, OS information
Because trait is a much better word for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait_(computer_programming)
There is a table saw that stops the blade the instant it senses the capacitance of a finger. It completely ruins the saw but saves the finger. Something like that could work here if the car could see the pedestrian far enough in advance to stay within parameters. Ruins the road and the car not the pedestrian.
Moving sewer, water & gas lines? Burying electrical & telecom? I don't know without running the numbers, but that is hugely expensive and disruptive in exchange for a relatively small amount of low-rise development. Just the planning process alone... (shudder). Whereas building up would increase property taxes at basically no cost to the city.

It's literally a pipe dream.
So the preferred investors still get 100% of their investment even if the valuation goes down 90%? If that's the case, these valuations are completely fictitious.

No surprise there. I always assumed someone had come up with a new way to manipulate perceived value. Back in the dot com bubble they did that via extremely thin floats in IPOs.
> it's merely there to illustrate that it gets a lot more difficult to appreciate the value of a little personal time in the present if you have an unusual utility-function in your moral code that applies a lot more weight to the future than most people do.

That actually comes off very egotistical.

The damage you do to your family today by putting a simple job before them is likely to do damage far into the future.

Because you aren't that important. The cure will almost happen (or not) with or without you. The best you can likely hope for is to accelerate it. Everyone is replaceable in a job. Everyone. Parents aren't.

A decade ago I'd have been much more willing to agree with you. But today it feels like a superficial rationalization of ego. One man does not get to Mars.

Seems like this should be one of those named Internet Laws. i.e.: Any mention of "...more than most people" is self-flattery and an indication that the user lacks the empathy to understand that most people have actually considered the same thing at one point or another in their lives. As a corollary, the position professed generally only holds any truth in as much as most people have already considered and rejected it's premise and matured beyond it.
In my recent visit to Seattle I settled down for a hotel. Airbnb were too expensive for two people. Maybe I was booking too late though
It's your lucky day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsaES--OTzM cut to 0:55