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This was one of the factors (certainly not the only one) that made me move out of the field of cryptography - I was doing work related to attempting to break a major cryptosystem and I realised that I wasn't completely sure what the right course of action was ethically in the slim chance that I succeeded. My background was in pure mathematics and up until I moved into cryptography, it seemed obvious that openess of information was an obvious good. However, once in the crypto field, it became much a much more ambiguous issue.
The slides look great. Thanks a lot.
You know how to reduce drunk driving?

I've got the answer to this: Mandate that car manufacturers have to weld a 10 inch steel spike to the centre of the steering wheel. The number of people are willing to take unnecessary risks would fall considerably.
Once Mass production kicks in the cars will get cheaper and cheaper as the processes to create them does so.

When the automobile was first invented it would have seemed implausible for it to be accessible and (relatively) affordable to everyone. Look at where we are now.
About the fact that they are useless?

If you're on HN, you've problably seen a lot of open source software and met people who write that, and you may agree with this assessment: 99% of it is written by people who would rather extract a wisdom tooth than file a lawsuit.

Yet there's very little violation of the license terms going on. Some, not much.

IMO Jeff Atwood is right when he says that programmers excel at rules. Make rules for something, anything, and progammers will largely follow them, and will quarrel about the rules and any violation when given the slightest chance.
That's the beauty of capitalism -- the market decides value, not some random bystander.

Who really cares whether you would group Zuckerberg with Buffett and Gates or not? I don't understand why that is relevant to the article.
I'm getting to the point where I don't know what to do about this. There are many re-submissions, and the official policy is that this is OK in some circumstances. In a way this is a good thing, because it gives good items a second chance when they sank the first time with no votes.

But when there has been an earlier, desultory discussion, there is some value in knowing that, but there's also value in giving things a second chance. I still think there should be an open, transparent way to link previous discussions, and then things would both get a second chance, and build on previous discussions.

No conclusions, no suggestions, just a degree of frustration. Thanks for replying positively.
pulled the last and tried but no luck. Am I missing smt? sublime is a symbolic link on my mac, may be that a problem?
3 is still pretty new. I'm not poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I bought a 9 year old car. It is still going fine (now 12 years old).

Given that adaptive cruise control is still an expensive luxury, I can't see fully self-driving cars coming to the poor any time soon.

That said, if we ever do get totally autonomous cars, you'll probably be able to get a driverless taxi for very little cost without owning a car yourself.
but that 10 inch steel spike also applies to sober responsible people.
Car's behaviors like this should be authorized by the owner.
See, I'm all in favour of cautious experiments with human body enhancement, but I've always seen people that choose to identify as transhumanists (and other forms of singularity believers) as the materialist equivalent of religious millennialists, believing that [near]immortality on earth will come before the end of their natural life - if only people will listen to them - with a keen desperation. Zoltan Istvan's an interesting guy though.
This is more like 'salmon' than 'red'. Seems rather readable on a good display with low brightness.
Unsafe choice for not art-specific website though.
Interesting. The hot code reloading functionality in Erlang led me to investigate ruby (my preferred Dev language) a bit more.

You can do a hot code load in Ruby using the Kernel#load() call. It won't alter functionality currently on the call stack, but it will change the functionality of everything not on the call stack. With some sympathetic design, you can achieve hot code loading fo high availability in ruby.
His recognition of this 'platform problem', and his failure of Microsoft to deliver a quality mobile browser to Window Phone, are irreconcilable.
Or even the Streets themselves; seemingly like roads increased tube capacity begets more traffic. The Crossrail expansion is forecast to be at capacity within only a few years of being opened. They're having issues with what to do with the pedestrians around TCR, the pavements aren't wide enough.
Perhaps 2 or more level streets, the 3D city?
It's amazing to me that you think that anybody (besides developers) will care about REST API design rather than the service offered by the driver.
Eh? Where in Italy because besides falling down drunk which is socially unaccepted mostly everywhere I do not think this is true?
Funny you should write that. One company I looked at was on their fourth rewrite of the system powering their main revenue stream. Every rewrite (by the usual suspects, proponents of some technology with a good babble but less than stellar tech chops) led to a reduction of that income stream, users leaving and so on.

My first piece of advice was to ditch the current system and revert to the old. This had been purposefully sabotaged by the suppliers of the new system. The only way out was then to go forward and this nearly killed the company.
I use a full 90% of my brain, brother
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I have a Nexus 5 and a no-brand tablet I use only to read ebooks.

And no, I do not like them.

It's not about the hardware, the software or usability.

It's about the fact that mobile phone has become the 21st century leash.

I do not install random apps, and still my phone is always busy and burdened with notifications, notifications, unread messages and such.

Wherever I am, day or night, someone is going to trigger a notification on your phone, send you a message or worse, CALL YOU.

And thank god I ditched Facebook a long long time ago.

This is _SO_ annoying.

Also, it is ABSURD that I have to manually edit notification settings for every app in order to disable crap.

And apps want absurd permissions (stupid example: want to convert degrees to radians? well, I'm gonna need access to camera, microphone, your contact list and your identity). Thank god android 6 fixes this.

Sometimes I think I should switch back to my old (but SILL WORKING) Nokia N73, and keep my Nexus 5 as nice toy, just in case I need Google maps or something.
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Yep, makes sense. So is there some kind of data to back up the claim that a jury is wrong more often? Perhaps verdicts are more likely to be overturned for juries?
To what degree? There's a wide spectrum of driving assists.

Traction control and ABS through to cruise control or the assisted steering (terminology?) we're seeing more frequently today?
> Windows Phone has long enjoyed a performance advantage

If only they leveraged this to gain a material lead in battery life - or physical device sexiness - or both.
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Yes you make a series of perfectly good points, and I learned about the Frankpledge, so thanks for that.

I agree it is not a utopian system by any regard, but I still think a country that has trial by jury is superior to one with bench trials only. Perhaps not in each individual case, but as a means of rebalancing the power of the establishment vs the people.

I've a friend who is a prosecutors assistant in Australia, having quite a dim view of the ability of my peers I asked him just last week how he rated the performance of the trials he had watched and he said he didn't think he had ever seen a jury get it wrong.

Then again he's just a big bag of relatively well educated prejudice and blind-spots like all of us, so there is that.
You need lots of software engineering etc skills to run this kind of service smoothly.

True, but customers can and do put up with a terrible product if they have a good reason. Look at things like Napster - that was an appalling product but it had millions of users because it did something people really wanted. In the case of an owner-operated Uber clone, that app could be much worse if people want to support a business owned by their local drivers more than they want the smoother service of Uber.

I have no idea how many people are anti-Uber enough to support a rival whose tech is only, say, 70% as good as Uber, but I wouldn't be that surprised that it'd be enough to work in some regions.
I don't care about the REST API, but I care how well the app works etc. It doesn't sound trivial to me. Showing the locations of the car and the customer in real-time, routes in real-time, having all the communication systems working all the time, the reputation system etc.
3 year old used car would be off-lease or a retired fleet vehicle.
It doesn't protect from a foreign intelligence agencies or hackers because connection is only encrypted by Kazakhstan's certificate to the point where MitM is performed by the government of Kazakhstan from that point connection to the website is encrypted with a valid certificate.

Even if what you said is true and western countries have private encryption keys of all websites I think that citizens of Kazakhstan would rather be spied by foreign governments than by their own government.
You raise many good points, and I don't disagree with many of the faults you point out. However, there's other considerations at play.

The purpose behind a "trial by one's peers" is to ensure that the people, and not the government, is delivering the verdict. The judge's role is to instruct the jury on the points of law being argued on, because he or she (along with the other lawyers in the room) is the trained expert.

For the trial to have gotten to this point, the judge needs to determine that there's enough evidence to even bring the case. There's already been an expert check prior to the jury stage to determine if there's a case at all.

Of course, as the article points out, many cases aren't exactly "Law and Order". (This has been cited as having an influence on cases), in that there simply aren't the resources on behalf of both the prosecution and the defense to pile together tons of evidence or research every possible defense. I liked the references to 12 Angry Men for this reason, because the case in that story had little to go on.

The jury trial system, while seeming strange in all of the restrictions, are intended to try and obtain an untainted jury pool and find those who are as objective as possible. To the author's point that "all of the people of color had been weeded out", I'd note to the defense that it'd be wise to ask the jury pool if they believed people of color to be more likely to commit a crime, or other question to determine a presumption of guilt (just as the prosecution had weeded out those with a presumption of innocence.)

I can think of far worse systems of justice whereby state-appointed judges hand down judgements and sentences behind closed doors. So I'm skeptical about the USA's system being the worst.

But it's certainly imperfect, and that's because judgements are handed down by imperfect people. And as I'm sure as any African-American will attest, it's hard to feel you're being judged impartially when you're looking at a jury of 12 white men.

But you could switch to any number of systems, and at the end of the day it's simply men judging men. The problem is not solved completely by a system, but by solving ourselves.

I found it heartening though that in this story, the structure of things helped. With everything arrayed against the defendant, there was no conviction. It just takes one person, one doubt, to look and go "I'm not certain" and that's it.

And that's exactly what happened. And exactly the way it should be.
The average age of a car in the US is 10 years old.
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That was my first thought. I think it's brilliant that people with background knowledge can assess unusual prescription patterns at GP practices, but this is bound to release data that can give you a pretty good idea of [some of] what some individuals with a particular rare condition are being prescribed.
It does, yes. Everyone would be incentivised to drive as safely as possible.
Given the work on MS' github and Azure, it really feels like the wall has come down and MS is opening up. They're now contributing code with active engineers to open source projects.
Uber's best interests are not served by creating a healthy market, its preferred outcome is a de-facto monopoly (see also Amazon.)

Competition benefits consumers, but winning is what most benefits corporations.
Can't find any proof of that claim. So far it seems more likely that all physical systems are computable. Although you may need infinite time to achieve perfect accuracy when computing them in a simulation, but matematically that's still computable.

Computability makes no assumption on the geometry, only on the rules the system follows.
I have an HTC M8, I am really really happy with it. It's a solid device, snappy and good looking. All the features I could possibly want. TBH, I can hardly think of anything else that could be added to improve my experience.
I've wondered why Obama uses ISIL, while practically everyone else is using ISIS.

I don't think it's just because he wants to remain consistent in his rhetoric. He must have a some advisor telling him to that acronym?

I think the use of two acronyms helps with the confusion. I believe Obama is a good man, but is really torn on what to do. I think about him sitting in the White House, and thinking--I can't bear to see another young man come home without legs. I guess we will send in a drone, and hope for no civilian casualties?

To anyone over there--the average American does not like the way our leaders treats your land, and people. Even though we have a democracy, we don't have much say in anything. We are all just pawns of our government. Guys join the military in order to get ahead in this competitive society. They don't realize the military offers very little job/career preparation. To any father who still tells his son, "What you need is a few years in the military!". Dummy up! If you have no good advice for your children; just be quiet? My old man was big on the military talk. I found out later his father paid a doctor to get him out of the Vietnam draft. I loved my dad, but he was a hypocrite. Even though I couldn't stand listening to his alcohol fueled diatribes, I still love the man.
It's not that it doesn't matter or that he's not responsible for his words. It's that as adults, over time, you develop a sense of perspective as your worldview broadens, and the things you believe or the way you might phrase something might be very difference once you've spent 5 or 10 years out in the world.
i'm too lazy to read all the papers on this subject, so indulge me: Do any measure brain "output"?

i bet earlier humans would eat a lot, then walk for miles until finding another spot, or stuff them on seals and then sleep on some warm cave and do nothing until the hunger was bad enough to justify another hunt on the cold outside, etc. I doubt you can live that way with a 9-5 job.
> How did Microsoft mess that up? Don't they understand [snip] it needs to look attractive?

They definitely need a new head designer/artist. Same problem with the Surface series. Excellent engineering but not beautiful. I've never had an emotional response to the aesthetic of a Microsoft phone or tablet.
Sorry another story about my journey with my son while he battled cancer.

Closed Proprietary image formats and systems HURTS patients. We used the local hospital for Chemo and everything else at the Children's Hospital 1.5 hours away for his legs and lungs. I would always have to wait 20-30 minutes to get a DVD of the studies (PET, CT Scan or MRI even ultrasound, but those are worthless) and then bring them to the doctor. The doctor would be forced to use whatever the portable image viewing program that came on the DVD and then they had to be sent to the IT Department to be imported into their system.

We would be there to remove some horrible tumor but before half his surgeries (I can't count how many surgeries he had) we would have to go in the day before (3 hour round trip) to get the expensive scan done again. One time I had a scan at 11 PM - Midnight and then drive home around 2 AM and be back at the hospital at 7 AM check in for a 10 hour surgery. ALL BECAUSE THE FORMATS ARE CLOSED and SYSTEMS could not connect so that my son's records were all the same every where. I carried 20 DVDs with me all the time just in case.

In case you are wondering my son unfortunately passed away after almost 5 years of fighting. If you are ever interested in giving to a cancer society please consider stbaldricks.org. Most charities give 0% or 2% to pediatric research and that is why we went over 20 years without a new chemo for children till last year, which St Baldrick's funded the research for this amazing new drug to fight a different type of cancer my son did not have.
Wasn't there an @Immutable assertion in JSR-305?
Why not reuse that?

EDIT: actually predating that JSR, coming from here http://jcip.net/annotations/doc/index.html
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I did jury service a couple of years ago in the UK - obviously a different system to the US. I came away feeling although in many ways a jury is a terrible way of deciding verdicts, that it is probably better than any of way of making a decision - in the same way that democracy can be considered the worst form of government apart from all the others that have been tried. Our jury did feel like a good cross-section of people (even if many of them had flawed ideas of logic) and that the value of the jury lay in the collective decision-making not in a simple aggregation of the individual decisions.
If the car is self driving there is less need to own a car. Selfdriving taxi will be significantly cheaper than current taxi. A privately operating self driving taxi system might be even more economic than building an extensive public transportation system that covers the typical spread-out American cities. It is probably cheaper than owning a car.
If an oil company CEO on trial for a crime got tried by a jury of other oil company CEOs, I agree the conviction rate would drop.

I'm not sure how much it would improve the outcomes for society, though.
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"Whereas Uber takes a 20 percent commission for every trip in Paris, VTC Cab charges its drivers a monthly fee of €250"

So the drivers need to make at least €1,250/month for this model to be better than Uber (for the driver)? Not to mention that it has a higher upfront cost.

Sounds like most drivers would rather pay 20% on whatever they make than pay an upfront fee with no guarantee of revenue.
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Fifa is copying Apple's design. Look at this thing called football, round corners everywhere.
"are not allowed to educate themselves about legal facts or the facts of the charges"

Because they're not trained lawyers, and they haven't passed the bar. It's to keep them impartial and prevent them from presuming they know the law better and therefor enter with a conclusion without all of the facts.

That's why the judge (who, depending on the level, is either directly-elected or appointed by the person you elected) is there, not to determine guilt, but to be the impartial legal expert and identify the points of law to be decided on, and act as umpire to respect the rights of the plaintiff and accused. These are tasks that just cannot be given to the jury without establishing some sort of certification on them, which would remove from ordinary people the ability to determine justice.
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Both the prosecution and the defence get to exclude ("challenge") a certain number of jurors. The idea is that you want jurors to be "generic", i. e. they should each be an average person without any experiences relevant to the case.

So, for example, a recent victim of crime makes for a bad juror for the defence who will probably boot him/her of the jury.
One of the points of transhumanism is that all technological advancement overcomes limits on the human condition, and one shouldn't draw artificial lines between, say, overcoming the limit of not being able to talk to people at a distance, and overcoming the limit of aging to death. You have a mobile phone and think that mobile phones are useful, helpful things because they let you do things that you couldn't do without one? Congratulations, you're a transhumanist. Transhumanism traditionally focuses on radical new technological directions precisely because most people are irrational in creating dividing lines between things that are conceptually exactly the same.
Moreover, jury selection is a touchy subject itself.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/discrimination-jury-s...

> In order to show that the prosecutor’s dismissal of a juror was discriminatory, a defendant must show that it was based on race, ethnicity, or gender.

A good legal defense is already out of reach of many people.

I'd think this alone (fta) should cause a judge to throw out the prosecution from the case:

> The first thing the prosecutor did during voir dire was ask all the men of color whether we trusted cops. Every black man had a story: police harassment, spurious arrests, intimidation.
Maybe not! Entirely possible. How could I possibly know, though? I just try to focus on being kind and empathetic to people, supportive to my coworkers and employees, be mindful of how my actions affect others, and when I screw up, try to do better the next time. I don't think there's much more than that most people can do.
Direct link to video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=780A0cv1qgA
The typical Uber car lease is way over that, anyone not making at least that shouldn't be a driver at all I guess...
It's a non-profit => unfair competition

But they don't get the huge 20% commission on the ride? Well that's amazing.

Also looking at how much it cost them to maintain the app, if they have 1000 drivers subscribing for just a month they already have reached a turn over.

I just hope it offers the same kind of experience Uber does: drivers are ranked, and thus can't act like taxi drivers.

PS: in Romania the rate/km is written on the cab. Even similar taxis can have very different rates. Most people don't see that and get screwed afterwards. In Vietnam they use fake counters and increase the price x10. I welcome any solutions to these problems (and Uber is def. one)
summary of the summary: Google tracks students the same as they track you, regular users. To the fully extent the law allows and then some on the gray line.