skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we all agree that police do useful work.

What a strange conclusion to which to jump. While I happen to agree that police are a benefit to society, their placement as a tool of the state is something that I hope to see changed, maybe even in my lifetime.

Professional police are a very new thing in common law society; still in an experimental stage in my view. And with the emergence and eventual maturity of the internet, I (and I think many of us through the open source world) think that it's totally plausible that police-as-a-service-of-the-state will be judged to be more trouble than it's worth.

> Is the correct solution to this problem to introduce a technical system where everyone can hide perfectly from the law if they spend some time and effort?

We aren't talking about "hiding perfectly from the law," at least not if the law in question casts no shadow over speech based on its content. Being able to publish content without any possibility of destruction of that content seems, at least to me, an entirely orthogonal venture to that of exacting violence or theft of some kind (ie, the more natural implications of the law).

If the state is made unable, in a physical and technological sense, to reach out and eliminate particular bytes-on-the-wire deemed illegitimate, I assert that the law will grow stronger, not weaker, precisely because we won't have to concern ourselves in the political realm about what to and not to censor.
"The database is being sold for 750BTC..."

Once again Bitcoin is the "getaway car" of choice for hackers and ransomware extortionists around the world.*

Where are all the Bitcoin fans when this happens? Probably reassuring themselves with, "Untraceability isn't a horrific crime-facilitating flaw; it's a feature."

At least good old currency bills had serial numbers on them...

* Just a few other examples:

https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/26/1357238/businesses-pa...

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/06/13/2211221/new-device-s...

https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/06/12/082234/ransomware-t...
While the Beats acquisition made sense for their talent and get a little faster entry into music streaming, but buying Tidal doesn't make much sense at all. Tidal software and technology doesn't offer anything of value. Jay Z presumably would not want to work under Apple long term.

Tidal has licenses with a lot of artists but those wouldn't transfer to Apple Music, they would have to renogitate with them. And the whole reason artists are choosing Tidal is because they dont want Apple Music and want to be with a company all about the artists. If Apple wants to be all about the artists, it doesn't need Tidal for that, it can simply update it's relevant policies.

One could say the want to buy them to get rid of the competition but I don't see Tidal being much competition since while artists may launch with them most like Adele end up on all the services anyway.

Or the most likely reason is this is simply a an unfounded rumor.

Now buying Pandora to replace their Genius feature would be amazing, but Pandora works so well because the amount of music is so small in comparison and Apple right now is anti algorithms publicly and all about human curation, so doesn't look like a pandora acquisition will be coming anytime soon as much as we want it.
Meet Furby Connect: Always-connected, yes, it has an off switch
The radar might not be able to clearly distinguish between objects at the height of the cab and objects at signage heights. Just about everything on the road is mostly on the road.

If the system can bias its sampling towards the ground, it would make a lot of sense to do so. Lump "above the ground" and "very above the ground" into the same category and use other sensors (for example, the camera..) to detect the edge cases where it matters.
If the headphone jack rumors are true, it will come down to reclaiming space inside the phone and possibly also waterproofing.

As long as Apple ships a small adapter with the phone, I have no problem with it.
Talk to the St Vincent de Paul society [1]. It's part of the Catholic Church, but they are there to serve everyone, regardless of religious beliefs, and won't pass judgement or bang on about their own religious beliefs. Helping people in Ray's situation is what they do every day, with material assistance, counseling or any other need. Even if Ray doesn't want direct assistance, he may get some useful advice by chatting to them. No need to walk into a church. Just walk into any of their shops and ask to talk to someone, or Ray can call them and they will discretely come to him.

[1] https://www.svdpusa.org/Assistance-Services
Microsoft was monopolistic in the 1990's, where they exploited their Windows monopoly to the expense of Netscape. That wasn't patents, it was market dominance.

(Not a fan of patents, but that wasn't the problem back then).
Just like Terror against Terror.
I have never done a Show HN, but I have written and spoken before about the fact that this varies a great deal. I have had posts get thousands of page views. I have also had posts get largely ignored.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/01/unimpressive...

There are a great many factors that impact how much traffic you will get from HN. Do not assume that posting something here will cause your site to be overwhelmed with traffic. That can happen. But lots and lots of stuff gets posted here and largely ignored.

The only way to know which it will be for your project is to post it. No amount of surveying will give you a meaningful answer.

Best of luck.
If the PIN is to access it, then it at least limits the number of times the credential can be used. The credential doesn't leave the smartcard. Plus, there's security schemes like Flicker that remove basically the whole system on top of hardware from TCB. So, you can put PIN check on it.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Is your friend/loved one more valuable than the 90 other people who die in automotive accidents (in the U.S. alone) daily?

Your attempt at "humanizing" the situation is merely being dismissive of the values of others' lives.

Everyone who dies is special and important to someone. To wring your hands and rail against utilitarianism is to try and apply tribalism to moral reasoning.

Because this person matters more TO YOU, you're suggesting that we should treat them as if they matter MORE THAN OTHER PEOPLE.

That seems to me an intrinsically selfish -- possibly even narcissistic -- view.
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You're right, consumers who buy the newest iPhone each year are real penny pinchers. \s
New autopilot hardware is expected sometime in the next year. It will likely include triple cameras, more radar, and lidar. (I think)
There are no police out there, though. At least, I've never seen any.
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Scots bagpipers claim prior art.
I think the likely answer is Tesla "autopilot" is a glorified cruise control + lane assist + data collection for future intelligent controls.

Google probably has close to this capability, but they are at the leading edge of image recognition.

In order to depend on it the AI would have to be able to distinguish 99.9+% and would have to be able to tell the difference between a green truck and a road sign. I honestly think self driving cars will require intelligence indistinguishable from artificial general intelligence.

This was state of the art in 2014 (improved in 2015, but this paper is on arxiv and gives the idea):

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0575

Even top scoring Google had classification errors over 6% of the time in 2014. Object localization was much worse. Even if it is at 99% that means 1 of every 100 object will be misidentified. You probably identify that many random (non-car, non-sign, etc) objects in a week driving, maybe in a day. That kind of error is unacceptable in self-driving cars and it is state of the art. That is one of the reasons they are still testing and not selling self-driving cars at Google.

Better than human may not require quite 99.9+% object classification, but I do wonder how great the self-driving car records would be if someone wasn't always there to take the controls. It certainly wouldn't be "better than human" at this point.
I moved form NYC to Seattle, attended a coding boot camp and moved from Shipping Director at a small eCommerce site and am now a Software Engineer at a Seattle area startup.

I didn't have much going on career wise and had been interested in attending a coding school. I was going to college in the evenings but at that rate it would have taken way longer than I wanted it to, to be able to change careers. I made the off hand remark to my brother that the school I wanted go to was in Seattle and that would make it difficult to go. He told about a friend of his in Seattle who let me stay at his place and I was off to the races from there.

I guess my advice would be it's not as hard as you would think to just move across the country and change jobs. I didn't have much tying me down however. I had a girlfriend (now wife) he was excited to move out of the city with me so that helped. No kids, no car, no house or anything like that so it was fairly easy to just pick up and go.

TL;DR - You're not as locked in to your current lifestyle as you think.
Data scientist paid $500k can barely code
You're already relying on proprietary mechanisms. They're just highly insecure. Adding in a more trustworthy component to reduce risk makes sense. It's what CPU and system vendors try to do with things like TPM and NX bits. Much better schemes out there, though.
Doesn't Tesla have to get approval from the NHTSA for their autopilot?
I chose Apple Music for a couple reasons:

1. I can add music to my streaming library that is not on their service and that music isn't treated any differently than the stuff in their catalog from a UI standpoint.

2. It integrates better into the Apple ecosystem, which I've already tied myself too. For example, play music using Siri and Apple TV support.

Also, I'm not a fan of Spotify's UI.
They aren't buying it as a competitor, its likely for the talent+exclusive content offerings.
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>So, right now, it looks like the Tesla Model S is about 4x deadlier than the average car when using Autopilot, and about 10-20x deadlier than the safest cars.

How you can draw such a conclusion from a singular data point? That's beyond ridiculous.
That's not surprising, it has some real problems with certain code, the edge cases are bad sometimes. We had a 20% perf bump, but probably 4x the memory use. That said, it gets better every release, and the JVM tooling is quite nice.
Microsoft never catches a break ;)
Three quarters of a million people going through Shinjuku, 200 exits. That's an amazing feat of urban planning... Great renderings. Some of the passages have quite low ceilings, a testament to its age and usefulness --it's not like they have the space to redesign them.

Lots of people zooming by each other. Busy to get to work and then, tired and just wanting to get home.
Well, the description of the "age of amnesia" was this:

> In fact, there's the age of amnesia, which is around 6, after which the majority of people forget most of their long term memories up to that point.

Under that definition, I think it's safe to say that all ages are "the age of amnesia". Most of your memories, no matter when they're from, get forgotten or irretrievably buried.
Jay admitted to helping get rid of Hae's body, but as I recall from the podcast, that seemed to not hold water.
My god, how can Apple be this bad at services that they need to acquire a garbage product like Tidal?? Tidal is junk, an elitist music streaming service that does more to screw over any artist not in the top 25 grossing than Spotify ever could. Jay-Z is a $%^$ing hack and for the first time I'm extremely disappointed with Apple's strategy assuming they do this deal.
I'm from Australia but have visited the US several times. The country has so many great stretches of grim Americana - areas that you are surprised support life and enterprise now or in the past.

In California, there's the stretch from Palm Springs down past Bombay Beach to Salvation Mountain (both interesting to see). Between Joshua Tree NP and Mojave NP is the Needles Highway, Wonder Valley, areas with messages written in colourful rocks on the side of the road.

Arizona has some interesting roads too with remnants of road-side stalls.
How granular are your measurements? I'm certainly not calling your experience into question. But I wanted to relay a cautionary tale of my own.

On one project my team was convinced that Redis was our bottleneck. Profiling was showing that Redis calls were where the most time was spent. I spent some time looking at the redis-rb source and it does a lot of block nesting (4 or 5 levels for every call, IIRC). So, I tried replacing the redis-rb client with something a bit lower level and our throughput doubled. It turned out that all that block processing cost as much as the network call did.

I suppose this isn't all that new: many performance issues are really a "death by 1,000 cuts" situation. Oftentimes your profiler can lead you astray.
More about this topic can be read at the ACLU's website. https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/aclu-challenges-comput...

I think the title could be more precise about what parts the ACLU is suing over (automated scraping of publicly available data.)
Awesome. No longer do I have to remember to respond on Issues by replying to notification emails.
It's not an omission per se, it's actually a challenging thing to implement. I'm sure they'd have done it sooner if it wasn't so hard to get right. Think of how the precedence rules would work: especially since the queries are composable, tacking on another .or() can do funny things semantically.
Geez people really hated my comment. But still, there's entertainment news everyday but normally it's not at the top of HN. Why this one?
I've had similar thoughts, and they usually conclude with me thinking that a perpetual license from the government to own land and pay taxes is a bad idea, because it encourages this predatory rental behavior where no equity is accrued on behalf of the renter. They're literally paying something (usually a very large something) on a recurring basis for something that the owner paid for on a one-time basis, except for the taxes (which are typically passed on to renters anyway).

The endless payments for no equity to lease a thing which was paid for on a one-time basis is my biggest issue with private property ownership. There's no way in my mind to make it a fair system without some aspect of slowly gaining even partial ownership.
> It sounds as if archagon would have us spend all our time looking at trees

> I think perhaps the reason archagon is so aghast

> Archagon seems to be so distracted by the novelty of this situation

> If we follow archagon's hand-wringing

I don't know who this hand-wringing, tree-gazing, and monacle-popping archagon is, but he sure sounds like a hoot.
We did not force Digital Oceans had by leaving them with only those two options.

a) We told Digital Ocean that if push comes to shove we will remove the domain not resist and risk having all our customers sites taken down. We explicitly stated this.

b) We had reason to believe it was still an open issue and being discussed. Including filing a counter claim (at their request).

We were fighting for due process, not fighting to prevent the takedown.
Headphones with good passive attenuation will block any kind of noise. They are essentially industrial ear defenders that also happen to be excellent headphones. Headphones with Bose-style active noise cancellation are an ineffective gimmick.

Headphones of this type typically provide around 30dB of attenuation, enough to reduce loud music to a gentle murmur. I highly recommend them to anyone who works in an open-plan office.

http://europe.beyerdynamic.com/shop/dt-770-m.html

http://en-uk.sennheiser.com/hd-280-pro

http://www.extremeheadphones.com/passive-noise-isolation-hea...
Or at a certain point 10 dollars is nothing and the time alone to figure out apples weird settings isn't even worth it. I still pay for a few things that I never use but just don't feel like figuring out how to cancel.
> This is the first fatality collision after 130 million miles of tesla's autopilot, so it's already above that bar.

It most definitely is not above that bar! The autopilot is combined with a human operating the car.

How many accidents were avoided by the human rather than the autopilot?

I suspect a ton of accidents (i.e. the autopilot has a high error rate).

How many did the autopilot avoid that the human would not have? Probably not that many, if any.

> Additionally, 92 people are killed in fatal car accidents in the US every day. So it's not as though this is some uncommon occurrence that autonomous vehicles would be unlikely to improve.

Do the math.

I did.

0.00001% seems pretty uncommon to me. There is a lot of driving in the US, so even that low of a number is visible, but it's still a low number.

Remember every single computer must be all but perfect to reduce the error rate.

Have you ever seen a computer to be that good? At even something as simple as not crashing? Never mind driving a car.
It may have. AI isn't quite to the level of understanding "object permanence" yet. So, if you would let a 2 year old drive you should be fine with autopilot. The more I think about this the more I think it will set self-driving back 10 years.
I don't think they care about the service. They already bought one system and rebranded it. Doing it again makes little sense. They likely care more about the users and exclusive agreements they signed. Even if those aren't transferable, the removal of Tidal from the market will lead to new negotiations. Remember that iTunes/Apple Music exclusives are a great way to battle Play Music, Spotify, and Prime Music.
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IMO, they should've had their explanatory intro, then the paragraph they closed with, then a gap, and then the technical explanation. As it was, it read like hand-washing to me. Especially when you openly call it AutoPilot but require hands on the wheel at all time.

If their detectors don't see a white car against a bright background, that's obviously a serious problem.
It's really hard to answer that question without writing a couple thousand words about different things, honestly. Many (most?) of us in this thread have 10 or so hours of information about this case just from listening to Serial, so it's hard to provide a genuine response to that without spending quite a bit of time talking. I don't have the time to write that, and I honestly doubt you have the time to read it.

That said, let's just start with the central premise of Serial E1: that it's hard to remember details of a day six weeks before, and that's why Adnan has trouble telling the cops what he needed to know. Remember, this is a day when his ex-girlfriend disappears and a police officer called him about it, but we're supposed to assume that nothing in that series of events is a big enough deal to stamp a few things (even just things related to Hae) in his memory.

Furthermore, if we assume that it's easier to remember something that happened same-day, we can assume that he asked Hae for a ride home from school - per what he told the officer the day of - something that he now denies. He did this, of course, despite the fact that he had a perfectly working car in the school's parking lot at that moment.

.. and so on. Like I said, it's really hard to start dealing with all of the claims made by various people at various times, but there's a number of ways to view the facts in a (to paraphrase Sarah Koenig) "bad for Adnan" way that aren't at all sketcky.
Yes, but you're sitting there eating that takeout food at a place (platform) that somebody else created. And even the sale of takeout food happened through that same platform.
They don't, because of Apple's 30%. That is the point, everybody is getting the same treatment, some accept it, some do not.
And if your headphones are getting a digital signal instead of a 3.5mm jack, you can put the relatively big and heavy DAC in the headphones instead of using the dinky one built into the phone. The lightning port will also deliver more power than the 3.5mm jack.

A pair of headphones has space for something the size of a Fiio E5 (potentially several times that size), but there's no way Apple or anybody else is going to built that quality internal to a phone.

Earbuds won't have the space for that hardware, so I expect the phone will still have an onboard DAC and an analog output mode over the lightning connector for use with cheap/small lightning earbuds and to allow a passive lightning/3.5mm adapter.

EDIT: As an addendum, I'm expecting we'll see a lot of bluetooth headphones with the iPhone 7, following in the Apple Pencil's "plug into lightning to pair and charge" setup. Hopefully also using the wire for data while they're connected.
If they are just a little worse than humans, they will cost many lives. If they are a lot worse than us, they will cost many more.
I would caution those planning travel through Nevada that predatory policing and exceptonally aggressive law enforcement appears par for the course.

Despite the appeal of open desert, and several past travels through the region, I've had exceptionally poor experiences, particularly on US Highway 50, and Austin, NV, in particular.

Avoid.

Being threatened with violence and bench warrants for traffic stops, and the reasonable precaution of not stopping in the middle of desert rather than a mile down the road in a well-lit, inhabited area, is beyond the pale.

The LEO's stated concerns during our encounter for his safety whilst being observed by those he is sworn to protect and serve suggests a considerable failure of governance.
Yes, I am aware that kiva is a big space with a flat floor, with the floor containing taped markers and the robots taking up all the space. That's why I said "designed for robotic use". There are plenty of warehouses that are laid out more like Invia's demo than Kiva's floor, hence it would be cheaper to bring in a couple of robots to try them on vs investing in something like Kiva.

I'm also aware that invia hasn't shipped yet, that's why I said "could be interesting"
> The first paragraph notes that this was Tesla’s first known autopilot death in some 130 million miles driven by its customers. “Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles,” the company then notes.

This statistic is a bit disingenuous, since the 1 fatality every 94 million miles is across all road types, where as Tesla's autopilot is only used for highway driving, mile for mile the safest way to drive.
They exist (see earlier comment). However they also typically stay close to town.
When these automated cars can complete a journey __without__ handing back to the human, only then can those journey miles be added to the miles driven under autopilot claim. Until such time, consider all automated cars a considerable risk to other road users.
Confirming your point:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/30/apple-ceo-tim-cook-takes...
The NRA, as a 501(c)(4), is most certainly able to do electioneering, although there are of course constraints (I think it's limited to members?).

But it also has a PAC, the Political Victory Fund, which is quite able to do the usual stuff, here's their first TV ad for this election they just cut, I've set the time to the last 5 seconds where they claim it per the law: https://youtu.be/SIl20jItjHY?t=25
In a closed system, it would. But if a US citizen can move to a location where not everyone gets the US basic income, then their basic income will be worth something.