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The real story here is how Lyft and Uber harrassed their supporters away from the polls.

I got 7 flyers in the mail, 3 unsolicited phone calls, multiple push notifications and texts, and a visitor at my door all over a 4 day time period. It can sure make you indifferent to them not getting their way.

Their aggressive marketing campaign turned attention away from the issues on the ballot and they came off as an enormous bully who was clearly buying the vote.
That's a well established area of American criminal law that's not confined to this matter and way too big to discuss in a Hacker News comment.
How about dynamic games or real-time augmented reality that paints your world in any style? There's countless applications beyond what an artist would want tweak by hand
Can someone give context for this document? Why is the Supreme Court proposing amendments to the federal criminal code?
Slapping stickers on something is not a scaling issue. The secure storage and transmission of private keys is. The idea that you'd just slap the private key on a sticker and have no other record of it is not something I even considered because that's very user-hostile behavior (unless they already have the intention to mod the device software before they buy it, they're unlikely to retain the sticker). It also screws with the secondhand market, both because secondhand devices won't have their key, and because the original owner obviously had access to the key and could have tampered with the software on the device before selling it.
The law is not necessarily stupid, but an exception, if possible, probably should be made in this case, on moral grounds, since the kids seem to be victims of a situation they played no part in creating.
Perhaps the rules on what constitutes an employee vs contractor are different enough that Uber feels this wouldn't be a threat? Or perhaps the incentives are different enough that it matters less.

Because it's not about finger prints: that's trivial to do. (Hell, you could probably come up with a simple lens to put on a cell phone to extract enough info to get a print... Not to mention existing services. They're lying if they say this puts too much burden and couldn't continue to operate. No, they want to keep the fiction that there are no Uber driver employees, that they're all, to use the brain-dead term working in the "sharing economy".
My Dad remembers a particularly bad winter in the UK when the pavements were iced over for weeks. He told me the postman started wearing socks over his shoes so he could walk quickly on the ice.
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First thing you should do with an Old-timer like this is replacing the original steering rack with a collapsible one, because like you said, it would perforate your head or torso on a front crash.
Isn't that a good thing? The next step would be to automatically revoke the driver's license which is required to start the car.
I agree. Traffic offenses are often the reasons accidents happen. I bet if that girl knew the cops were monitoring her speed and she was guaranteed to get fined for speeding, then she wouldn't have been speeding.
I will say that, at least in CS academia, everyone has heard of IIT / Tsinghua, because it feels like 30+% of the PhD students came from there, so they are certainly held in high regard by CS people.
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Lots of "you're doing it wrong" with no solutions. This is why nobody bothers.
I hadn't even noticed that until i went back to look after reading your comment. I actually don't mind it for some reason.
Now there are other things that annoy me a lot like those upper or lower borders that follow you as you scroll but not this, strangely.
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Unless born to foreign government [government] workers.
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thanks. Have you attended the conference?
Do these new rules expand the claimed foreign jurisdiction of US federal courts or not?

The amended rules provide new authorities for issuing warrants when "the district where the media or information is located has been concealed through technological means". In other words, the new rules seem to expand the authority of federal courts when there is a question of which district court has jurisdiction. But what do these new rules mean for cases in which the location of the information is clearly outside of the jurisdiction of any US federal district court, or when there is a question of whether it might be?

Apparently the rules were previously amended to remove the definition of "district court" [0], making this question still more subtle. Note also that the rules explicitly expand the jurisdiction of US federal courts without regard to sovereign geography in cases of terrorism, but not otherwise. (I am reminded why I decided not to pursue a legal career.)

0. See the note pertaining to Rule 1(b) of the 2002 amendment, at https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_1
There is no point here. Yes this will be an issue, a totally new company is selling more units than the incumbents, obviously they are going to have problems. The point is that there is a huge demand for their vehicles, and they'll figure out a way to meet that demand. One way or another. In the end consumers will benefit from all this competition in 20 years we will be driving electric autonomous cars, all of us. Great news!
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Is there a link to the talk? The slides just list "Networks", "Servers", "Workstations" and so on... Should there be audio? I don't hear anything.
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The employees also don't pay taxes on the perks so it costs less than giving you the money to buy the things yourself
You don't even have to leave the first paragraph to see that there has been a real and significant decline over decades: "The University of California at Berkeley, one of the leading public research universities in the nation, now receives only about 13 percent of its budget from state appropriations, compared with about 50 percent a few decades ago."
This is news to me. Source?
that does not help the first victim.
The meaning was that roughly two thirds of world's classic literature is about how people are capable to alter their life circumstances and conditioning.

There might be a legitimate question of which particular CBT is more efficient, but there is no question of whether or not it works.

Smart people usually bootstraping individual CBTs for themselves. Some, like Hermann Hesse, even wrote books about it.
They're called ride sharing because the concept was born out of an app that was actually about finding carpool opportunities (I forget the name though).
Even more fun. He said he applied for a visa, to use on his Russian passports. Canadian citizens are ineligible to get visas, as they are not needed. So just by him getting a visa indicates the Canadian government views him as not Canadian.

Had the same thing with my kids. Born to me (Canadian). So instant citizenship. But to travel I've got to get their Canadian passports, which requires other docs, including the passport from their other country of citizenship. I asked if I already had that other passport, could she apply for a visa? Nope, she's a Canadian citizen, even if there is no documentation other than a birth certificate with a (naturally born) Canadian parent on it. They had quite a look of enjoyment as they explained I'd have to do double the work for zero benefit.
It is a "useless" 3D navigation, pattern is :

one right, then waterfall down, and then loop.
Obviously. But no system is capable of rooting out potential sex offenders.
Ya, I didn't explain that as well as I might have. That is correct :-)
> Actually parenting is more about teaching your kids to do the responsible thing when nobody is watching. Without that it's not "parenting" it's "babysitting"

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You might be missing the "down" part of each slide? In the bottom right corner there's the 4-arrow thing, and if down is 'not disabled', there are more slides to see.

I can't stand this kind of "2-d" presentation...
I take it you prefer to be more subtly influenced into voting the way others want? Because either way you are being influenced by others to vote the way they want you to.
From my limited comprehension of the matter, what about:

http://jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...
For people who need to get back to family, they won't eat dinner even if it starts being served at 5:30 pm. I agree w/ the person before; moving dinner back is less about saving money and more about saying that you have to earn your dinner by working another hour.
Agreed. This is what happens when software fails catastrophically. People die and we lose confidence in software that could save lives if it worked properly.
because I remain anonymous on HN after a prick / top 10 poster here threatened my employer over my opinions on software development

Which kinds of opinions were they?
I'd like a similar tool that would extract useful reddit threads and replies based on quality of discussion. I'd call if "The deFluffer".
Except, from the little I read, there was no murders attributed to these "illegals".

No doubt a bit of TV license. Just like the top spies or doctors spend time doing boring labwork a low level worker could do.
"Hey, 98.6, it's good to have you back again... "

One of the best-known numbers in biology came about due to a similar confusion over significant figures:

> The first systematic measurements of human body temperature were performed by the German physician Carl Wunderlich. In 1861 he measured the temperatures of one million healthy individuals (a sample size that seems too large to be believed). The average value was reported as 37 degrees celsius. When converted this value becomes 98.6 degreed fahrenheit. So what's the problem? Wunderlich's value has only two significant figures while the converted value has three. The last digit (the "point six" at the end) should be regarded with great suspicion. Wunderlich's converted value should really be stated as "ninety eight point something" if one is being honest.

Actually, if one is being honest and respecting the usual rules, it should be stated as 99°F; that is, rounded to two significant figures.

(And, of course, we're not that simple: Core body temperature rises and falls naturally due to a number of factors even when we're completely healthy, so any single number as "the" healthy body temperature is, strictly, incorrect.)

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/LenaWong.shtml
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In Germany you need a special drivers license to commercially transport people, which is mostly a background check and regular checkups that you're physically capable for driving people around. Uber used drivers that didn't have it until they were told to stop. It just shows again how Uber is trying to prey on competitors by ignoring all regulations.
I wish they'd go after the users of shell companies just as aggressively as Tor. But this 1% has super PACs.
No one seriously expects model of toddler collapse to lead to novel physics. Some (admittedly minority) serious physicists expect model of supernova to lead to novel physics.
You freakin' russian terrorist - write in English or leave the place.
I can attest to the other side of that. My 2000 Cavalier was totalled after I rear ended someone at < 20 MPH. Apparently all of the impact went straight into the radiator.

However, in my subsequent two cars I was rear ended and in both cases, while the cars were pretty ugly, they were driveable.
You need to have that regardless to drive. You're missing the big part of Uber and Lyft's model: anyone who wants extra cash can sign up and start driving people. If someone wants extra cash for a weekend then realized they need to go get fingerprinting done which could take a week then they're a missed opportunity.
Tests have shown that the Autosock actually works better than chains in almost all situations. Here in Colorado you'll see big rigs carrying goods with auto sock's on rather than chains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtBzXVbE3Rc

This shows the various tests that they did, and the auto sock comes out of the tests very well.
This article's 'victory lap' tone feels more like PR than journalism.
What I love is the smartcard... Well ... Main AAA (Authentication/Auhtorizaation/Accounting) problem is the clould.

How can we federate identity and manage them safely?

Plus, once you decide to be connected how to make AAA system talk to each others?

And then, sometimes you need to make money ... and you know, safely pass token forth and back... And what standard solution do we have that is not a framework?

Well, 3GPP proposed IMS based on IETF Diameter. Still not there.

Some proposed Role Based Accounting and proxy authz based on LDAP ... well not really deployed.

So we are also waiting for a new standard of inter communication of centralized Enterprise Directory that has tokens, tickets, multi policy for authentication according to origin, roaming, sane schema...

LDAP is honestly a good tool, is it actually relying on a secured, strongly typed NOSQL. But, I hardly saw any devs understand the anonymous bind then authed bind mechanism.

I do feel our biggest problem is not in the tools/technology, but rather in too much education of people that are useless in production.
Wow. Interesting and deep thought. I really liked.
Good article. Podcasts still have a 'Web 2.0', pre-Facebook ethos: there's a feed, and there are software clients that check the feed and get a direct link to the mp3 file. Personally, I want to make a site that archives podcast episode listings, and guess what? If I have the time and energy, I can make it. Getting the data--new episodes, episode descriptions, cover images--is not an issue. The more that top publishers want Apple to introduce tracking, revenue sharing, etc. the more all related data would get centralized, and as Marco points out, in the long run podcast publishers might start resenting Apple for becoming a major intermediary, the same way online publishers resent decisions made by Facebook.
I think rather than Schumpeterian creative destruction resulting in the end of "capitalism" it will simply be the same all powerful 1%ters with a new upper class..

of course we don't really have a true free capitalist system... this is the fiction, otherwise banks would have been allowed to fail as they should have.
Ok, but where do you draw the line? In CA the speed limit is usually 65. Should I get automatically fined the moment I go from 65 to 66?

How do you distinguish between reckless speeding and overtaking a slow-moving vehicle by using the fast lane? What about real emergencies where you speed to get your wife to the hospital because her water just broke, she is in pain and there is no time to wait for an ambulance?

There are many variables to consider. I hope such omni-present telemetry never comes to pass. I'd rather people have more freedom than for the state to try and create a rubber-covered world where everything is safe. Heck, I'm even worried about self driving cars because I know someone with good intentions will propose we outlaw manual driving "for the greater good".
> Have you ever had to get a background check? I have. The FBI background check requires ink fingerprints which you get at a police station.

Yes. The FBI one in fact (fyi you don't have to do those at a police station; depends on why and where you're getting one).

> Takes 15 minutes and I think $10. Georgia State background check accepts an electronic livescan which i had done at a UPS store. This is easier than getting your car emission tested.

Depends on the type of emissions testing you need to do but at least when I lived in MD I would be in and out of the emissions place is about 10 minutes.

Regardless emissions is a requirement to simply drive. To drive other people via Uber or Lyft you simply need to open the app and have a legal vehicle. Adding this requirement now prevents those drivers who only drive temporarily or when they think of it and need some extra cash. If you're a college student who wants to get some extra bucks you might try Uber or Lyft, realize you need to get fingerprinted (which could take weeks depending on where you are) and either you're paying for it (requiring more time to make up the difference) or Uber or Lyft are paying for it (which likely means more fees for customers as that will be very expensive).

Doesn't seem realistic at all to me.
the worst language i've seen for that was "clean" - it's so generic a term that even other programming languages use it to describe themselves!
Sometimes they do, if chain laws are in effect and the weather is getting really bad...

Also, if you don't have them and you get into an accident, it's expensive fine time :P
The girls' scores dropped half as much as the boys' rose.

Similar 'good' numbers for both, much worse 'bad' numbers for boys.
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This original title for this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11596840 seems like the most honest:

US judges can now issue warrants for computers located in any jurisdiction

I can't help but be a bit cynical and suspect that headline would never get so many upvotes because it doesn't fit the HN narrative as well.
Background checks, by definition, also do not help the first victim.
Whoops, thanks, edited.
I guess they're like Nato but not yet awol.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/51924/proper-capi...
How does a rating stop a person from becoming a driver just so he can rape his first fare, then quit? He's not going to be bothered by stars or future fares.
Ah, that must be the thread people have in mind. Thanks!

That's a dupe by HN's standards: it's a major discussion of the same story.
Man, you're fighting uphill battle. This is a typical case of people being scared of something they don't understand coupled with not willing to learn. Yesterday[1] I read that RFID tags emit radiation because RF means radio frequency, so it's harmful. Today I read that ETW is harmful telemetry and MS injecting code into binaries.

I thought I got over the fact that a lot of people programming on Windows don't understand its internals. But I didn't. Understanding ETW is essential on Windows, just like DTrace is a must on Linux or ktrace on OpenBSD. It's also well documented on MSDN[2]. ETW also typically boils down to a single check for any listener interested in messages. This info is public and has been for ages. I guess I'd understand this attitude if there were no real reasons to bash MS.

But I guess what pisses me the most is the context of that reddit thread. People complain about mutex performance and show code where they mutex vector accesses. This kind of code does not belong in performance critical game code. "Hey, I've got a salad to make, what tools do I need? I've got a hammer but these veggies are not a nail. But I'm sure if I take two hammers to the task my problem suddenly changes to nailing things together!"

For Pete's sake, if a slight performance drop in mutex performance of user mode code hogs your application, you're mutexing too much. Your code is a problem, not a mutex. And if you're using single threaded STL primitives for communication between threads you have no right to complain about CRT performance. None. This lack of intellectual curiosity in people sinks my heart.

Rant out. :S

[1] not on HN though, thankfully
[2] well by MSDN standards at least - ETW documentation is hard to grok without referencing sample code in the Windows SDK
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11651973
I thought Google was many years away from a marketable self driving car.
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For me it's literal presence. Some people may not be able to feel it, but I do. And for my best work, it matters.

On the other hand, I do agree oftentimes it is faster to resolve issues in chat, over the phone, or whatever digital reduction du jour.
But we can't predict when a toddler will collapse, or when she will start throwing toys, using the current understanding in physics, even if "The Laws Underlying the Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood".

What I am getting at is that we only understand the Low Level laws. We still can't understand, for example, financial markets or the weather. Complex dynamic systems are still beyond our horizon of understanding, even if we know how elementary particles behave.

Another example, and this one is very basic: Predict the state of a system of 3+ bodies moving in space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem
> How would you get around if public transport is unreliable?

As an American, I always found it so ironic that public transportation is often the worst in areas where only those who truly need it use it.

People make a big deal about how better quality public transportation can be good for the environment (by getting more cars off the street), but what I think is more important is that getting more higher-income people on the bus vastly improves fare revenue and local political will for having good public transportation.

I would definitely take public transportation to work if I could, but Silicon Valley public transportation is awful. The lightrail doesn't go through too many useful stops; it's only good if you live somewhere along the line and are trying to get to downtown San Jose. My car commute to Cupertino takes half an hour or less, but if I wanted to take the bus it'd be an hour.
There are seven billion people in the world who are victims of not being born Canadian citizens. The distinguishing fact of these two is that their parents pretended to be Canadian; but while I have sympathy for the kids, it seems that it would be a bit perverse to say that if parents lie to their kids for long enough then we have a duty to make those lies come true.
> Big podcasters also apparently want Apple to insert itself as a financial intermediary to allow payment for podcasts within Apple’s app. We’ve seen how that goes. Trust me, podcasters, you don’t want that.

Is Marco referring to In-App purchases in apps and how it changed them? Or the book store, which I would find more compelling?
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>"Caller ID" isn't the "source of the message", just some data transmitted along with the ringing sound, and as you can see the circuit doesn't have a globally unique identifier. //

The companies could enforce the side channel info as the actual call origin, but they don't want to. Just like snail-mail spammers they're paying more money than residential customers will pay to require that info.

It's broken because it serves the purposes of the phone companies to keep it that way. This is what you get by detaching profit from ethics.

I'd settle for my phone company dropping calls with spoofed caller ID - like 0, my own number, foreign calls with local numbers, local numbers that don't even terminate, etc..

Indeed I think origin should be legally required even if it's "K phone network" - I don't mind blocking all calls via companies that service spammers.
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You know, if you move out of San Francisco and let your employees be remote you can save an insane amount of money on office space, pay employees less and allow them to have a higher quality of life. Tech's insitence on being in one of the most expensive areas is just bizarre when most employees can pick up a laptop and work anywhere there's wifi.
And you're totally missing the point. Drones are as precise as intel they're dispatched on. And this intel has nothing to do with thorough work, it's mostly based on signal, with no real reconnaissance whatsoever. There's a village with a phone that's related to a person related to some shady group? Send drones!

Your argument is like saying "sniper rifles are awesome, would you rather use grenades to dispatch bad guys?" Of course not. But sniping everyone wearing a tie at a banquet just because you know your target has a tie isn't at all better than setting up explosives to the building.