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> Why not? It's how everything else works. If you buy a house and then install your own electrical wiring which causes your house to burn down, you have no claim against the construction company and nobody blames them for it because it was your fault, not theirs. This recent attitude of "people won't understand, therefore corporations have to be paternalistic" is patronizing and factually incorrect. People do actually understand.

I think you're really overestimating both the level of technical comprehension generally, and people's attitude towards "due diligence". People understand what a house is and what wires are. They are not, as of yet, that clear on how neural nets, sensor systems, and dynamically updated software come together to make a self-driving vehicle. If modders cause problems, especially with something as mobile and potentially destructive as a car, the general reaction could easily be "this is mostly the fault of the self-driving Tesla, and the fact that they didn't do due diligence in preventing misuse." It is not a very reasonable reaction, but it is a likely one - and one that could have serious consequences for Tesla as a company.

>The worst outcome is that technology-ignorant bureaucrats require companies to clamp down on modding. But having companies do that to begin with is no improvement.

It's not the same. A bureaucrat's rules are mandatory for everybody. Tesla has competitors who may choose a different route.

> The basis of this seems to be the conceit that manufacturers can actually control their products after they've been sold. It can be true for a time, in the sense that it takes people that long to figure out how to break back into the things they own, but it happens. If you can jailbreak an iPhone then you can jailbreak your car.

A self-driving Tesla is not an iPhone, because an iPhone is unlikely to run somebody over or block a freeway. Risks are relevant. Self-driving systems are also dynamically updated and dependent on networked information. It already is a service, not a fixed product. You don't own a self-driving system (at least Tesla's idea of it) any more than you own an Amazon Web Services server rack by having something hosted on it.

> Which means that we have a choice. The first option [....] which makes it much more likely that people will die. What does that do for your brand?

Maybe in the future, when such things are more familiar, Tesla will feel confident enough to open their products up to modders. But right now? When even the idea of self-driving cars is a challenging sell, and they're being criticized for it not being secure and consistent enough? No, not now.
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There was no net impact in that accident. It replaced three deaths which would have occurred without autopilot, so it was part of a net gain in lives.

Perhaps that particular human was special and worth saving over the other two who were saved instead, but I am not aware of any reason to believe that.
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The most charitable interpretation I can then offer is that it is masturbation. Nothing wrong with masturbation, of course, but it's rather unseemly to do it in public.
I agree with you. I still firmly believe VR/AR will be tech niche.

Nintendo seems to have built something they hope is simple, but entertaining.
I hate to be cynical but there are groups who push back on ID'ing folks for voting, and my suspicion is their motivation is the illegitimate voters that weeds out. It really is the only reasoning that makes sense to me.
It looks like they're offering a more traditional gamepad style controller, like the Wii Classic Controller
REAL-ID is effectively a national ID card. Organizations like EFF and ACLU have been opposed to REAL-ID on privacy and civil liberties grounds since it was passed in 2005. Libertarian groups like Cato also highlight that it's a huge unfunded mandate on the states. Overall, resistance to REAL-ID has been one of the most effective multipartisan civil liberties efforts - a lot to learn from it.

Here's EFF's page: https://www.eff.org/issues/real-id

And Cato's most recent commentary, by Jim Harper: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/real-id-decision...
It looks helpful, but I would like to paste a whole document and be told which fragments look suspicious because of low popularity. The site requires putting wildcards and completes only a single n-gram.
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Is Nintendo making a big mistake by missing Christmas with this thing?
> those half-controllers aren't going to have all the buttons that a full controller does

What are you talking about? https://i.imgur.com/zhz5wHh.jpg
Citizens living abroad are generally known, either via tax filings or you notified the embassy, etc.

I'd think people living abroad are a small enough number to manage some other means of verification (such as your social security number, which every citizen has for free, can only be used to vote 1 time per election).

> Because there are many people who bristle at the thought of being required to possess a government-issued ID

Fair point - however they all already have a government issued ID - a social security number. Instead of a driver's license, we could use that then. I'm just arguing for _some_ form of verification that you are who you claim to be, and that you only get 1 vote per election.

Right now, you can walk into a voting center and just make up a name. The person will find you somewhere on the list and either admit you to vote without any further scrutiny, or inform you that your voting place is someplace else (they'll even give you the address!).
> For every clip or montage of beautifully executed flair, there are tens or hundreds of hours of unrecorded or unpublished mistakes.

This is true, but for athlete who takes the sport seriously, most of those mistakes are made during practice and not on match day.
That's ... disgustingly creepy on first glance.
That's a good point, there are many positive benefits to such a system. Unfortunately, men are not angels and governments tend to abuse such power (this is partly the reason I don't complain too much about oudated government inefficiency - I don't necessarily mind if the government is slow and clogged.)
I wonder how a programmer from the 80s would react if they were given a time machine and this was their first experience with modern programming.
Can anyone explain what might need a HTTP request here?
The Gamecube was far from modest for its time - IIRC, it was the most powerful console until the Xbox came along.
You need to do more than make them free — they also need to be obtainable at times other than weekdays 9 to 5, when people are working. And they need to be obtainable without a car. Basically, it's been found that there are (presumably unintentional) roadblocks toward some underprivileged people getting IDs, and until those are sorted out, they are unsuitable for use as you describe.
I think that's just a combination your initial interpretation of the title and being a little too pedantic.

They are fixing a case of Python performance being a problem in the context of their needs, and the way they solved it was with Rust (and there's no implication that it had to be Rust in the title).

It's not wrong, it's just vague.
Might be a good time to buy Nintendo stock.
Amazing webdesign, congrats to your designer.
There are no federal ID's other than a passport in the US.

Unless they pass a new federal identification law what they are doing is unlawful.

This is what people often seem to miss, and it also is going on in the EU sadly too much.

The Federal government was granted certain powers by law, it can't just decide that it would grab more power or interfere in things it was intentionally prohibited from interfering.

This isn't because everything the fed's do are malicious but because the separation of power between the state and local governments is a key element of how the US government and political system is structured.

The federal government can't crouch over state rights any more than a state can decide to reinstitute slavery or ban women from attending school, once you start messing with that things can get murky really fast.
What is suspiciously favorable about it?

I trust that you're aware of the basic chronology. If not, it should be fairly easy for you to look into.
Worse than anyone thought? I doubt it.
It's using the next gen Nvidia Tegra (the X2, afaik)
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FYI we put out a blog post that talks a little bit more about why we decided to create a third party LTS release:

https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/2016/10/19/patched-cassandr...
> It has little to do with your argument and everything to do with the way you're arguing.

Sure that's a valid possibility. But my hypothesis is valid as well.

One thing is solid though: Your statement is a subliminal personal attack on the "way" I "argue" and has nothing to do with the argument itself.

Perhaps another alternative conclusion is that you have no way of continuing the discussion because you have nothing solid left to say, so you decide to reframe the situation and end it with a cheap excuse that has nothing to do with the argument itself.
Right now, the police don't even need a warrant, merely the coöperation of the corporation.
>where are the Bracewell-von Neumann probes?

How sure are you that you are not (part of) one?
Ask HN: Programmers of the 80s how do I learn to build the things you built?
From reading the history, I found that a lot of things that play central role in our machines were designed and built in the 80s and early 90s.

Things like Linux, GNU, BSD, Apache, MySQL, IRC.

Programmers of 80s, how did you know how to build these things given that many of these were hobbyist projects? How did the later contributors understand the design of these projects?

How did you get started? What resources did you use?

If were to build today something like you did, low level systems in C, how do I get started? What's the best available resources?
C'mon, just post the link to the original content, not your twitter profile + tweet.
Agreed, I watched the video and came here to see related comments. Now I need to wade through the other topic that I read yesterday, searching for new ones related to this post. In short, I'm off to Reddit to find a post about the video.
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Very cool list. Something similar here: https://github.com/sobolevn/awesome-cryptography/blob/master...
Check out http://foxtype.com - does some of that but more grammar-like heuristics such as conciseness, complexity.

On a side note, I'm part of a team working on http://emailfox.co which will provide 'Smart Sentences' for you when composing an email, based on a recipient. Allowing you to write personal, relevant emails faster.
Some states do already have strict voter ID laws. I think Georgia is one of them. As they currently stand, they've been shown to disproportionally affect black and latino voters. There is nothing stopping any of these states from passing legislation to raise taxes to give ids away for free as well. You'll never see that though, because the states that have strict voter ID laws are Republican and giving away ids for free would give away their advantage over the Democrats.
> "Reviewer barely scratches the surface, and misses huge issues"

Code reviewers sometimes miss huge issues. Automated testing, and load testing are designed to catch these issues, and even then sometimes things go live and turn into the flaming shit show that we have all lived through.

Review is only part of a full lifecycle.

- Formal usability: This is the big reset. A day or more of sitting behind a one way mirror with an impartal moderator taking users through your app. Your going to find that 7 people will magically bitch about the same thing. The thing you didn't notice, or thought was a bad idea.

- Informal usability: if your doing something risky, or questionable, don't be afraid to bring a few users into your office and run testing yourself. It isn't as clean as formal, but your going to get a lot of the same insights at a much lower cost.

- Testing and behavior tools: find some and integrate them into your site. User testing.com, Crazyegg and good old google analytics funnels are you friends. These are the "automated tests" of UI design, and you need to take time to do good analysis of the results.

You have to build up the tools an infrastructure around reviews, have the hard conversations, where legitimate critiques are taken seriously. It isn't just one process your putting in place its a whole culture change.
Let's say we want a society where civil disobedience is tolerated, but we also want to live under rule of law. To engage in civil disobedience ethically, I think one must be prepared to bear the personal consequences of breaking the law. However, when the consequences for military / intelligence community leaks are anything up to and including life in prison, or death by hanging, this forces an extreme ethical dilemma. If we value civil disobedience as a society, maybe we ought to give it some protection under the laws. Obviously we can't allow disclosure of secrets based on subjective intent. But we could offer a sort of safe harbor where, if the leaker only discloses information that pertains to government actions or policies that he or she has a bona fide belief are illegal or immoral, then the penalties are limited to X years in prison. Would this tend to encourage leaks? Yes. But, it would still require a person to make a difficult personal decision before breaking secrecy laws.
Could you elaborate on the difference between mafia members and politicians?
You just described my entire condition. I've had therapists tell me that I didn't want help because of these feelings and that things were fine I shouldn't really worry (they actually said this to me). Reasonable comment from an outsider perspective maybe, but doesn't really help or offer any insight.

The gaslighting comment is all too real. I wonder what's wrong with me because I don't feel contented. I feel like a fake all the time and then I feel like a fake for feeling like one. It's madness. Somehow I'm still able to carry on, but it's not fun.
I must be very out of touch with the gaming habits of millenials. The intro movie itself seemed like some nerdy wish-fulfillment. Who acts like this? Where can I meet some stunning gaming hottie like the one in the airport? Will the Switch make my life this fantastic?
> there are various legitimate reasons for the individual states to have that sort of autonomy

People say that about a lot of things, but so much of the time the reasoning isn't clear to me.

Why does Montana need a different style of ID than Washington?

A separate system, that I could understand. Not necessarily agree with, but understand.
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I am sorry for your situation.

For others who are concerned about this range of problems, consider the following issue carefully: elderly parents who for whatever reason compromise their financial and/or physical health are placing a direct burden on you. Although their debts do not transfer to you, you may very well be on the hook due to familial obligations. E.g. your MIL gives up all of her assets to a fraudster. You cannot bear to see her homeless - so you step in financially. Her actions are now reducing your wealth and quality of life.

One solution to this is to anticipate and discuss issues well before they arise. Transfer assets to trusts for grandchildren. Create living trusts where a child is a trustee. Watch your parents' financial accounts. Talk to them about common scams [Nigerian/IRS/Gift card/Email]. Train them to always confirm with a family member before transferring money anywhere.

There is also the option of pursuing Guardianship and Conservatorship should that become necessary.
Every citizen has a federally issued identification number, aka your social security number.

We could have a list at each voting center. You show up, tell them your SSN (or better yet, produce a card showing it - and yes, I know we'd need to do better than flimsy paper like the current cards are printed on), they cross it off the list and you go vote. Your ID can't be re-used - and your name doesn't matter.

1 ID, 1 Vote... sort of thing.
Given that there are statistically NO illegitimate voters to be weeded out, I think you have to look elsewhere to find the source of the pushback. Maybe check out the several states have used voter ID laws as a way to target and suppress minority voters (and been slapped back by various appellate courts over the past few months) for a start.
While a lot of people can now use Let's Encrypt, this could be useful for things like internal private network sites (which can still benefit from TLS if an adversary can get some visibility into the network).
Given that investigations have found about 30 cases of voter fraud per billion votes[1], what illegitimate voters are you talking about?

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-com...
> And I'm not creating an account just to search domain names, when there are a million sites that let me do that without registering.

And one of its selling points is:

No need to fill out a zillion forms, just
enter your contact details and credit card.

I'm not sure which registrars need a zillion forms to pay (once registered), but every one I've used has Paypal as an option, where even entering contact details and credit card isn't necessary.
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Nintendo tried VR in 1995, but it did not go well.
And the Gameboy Player for the GameCube.
You're proposing quite a lot of bureaucracy to solve a problem which literally does not exist.

Despite extreme focus on this issue by right-wing groups in the past decade or so, the number of cases of voter fraud is laughably small.
But it's not a subway, it gets stuck with the cars. It's basically a glorified bus line.
If you are referring to browser add-ons (and not Plugins), the future couldn't be brighter: Multiple vendors, including Mozilla and Microsoft, are converging on a "Web Extensions" standard that is based on the Chrome extension API (but neither a strict subset nor superset). Hence, it is far easier to write extensions for multiple browsers with a (largely) single codebase.
Twitter's management is simply out of touch with reality. Jack is more interested in being a SJW than turning Twitter around. After Twitter's layoffs, their attrition rate has only gotten worse as good people continue to jump ship. Who's left? Rent seekers. Things will only get worse from here for Twitter. I'm a casual Twitter user, not a shareholder, and not a fan of any other social media service.
So what happens if you go to vote and they tell you "no, somebody already used your SSN, too bad"?
The loss of privacy should be balanced against the aid it provides to law enforcement to catch criminals. So, even though the loss of privacy is more extensive, the capability of the cops to catch the bad guys is also better.
Most of you, including the OP and the antagonist in the story, have gone far from reality. It's all about cheat-or-get-cheated. Habitual exploitation!
Nvidia X1 already is 1 tflops GPU and the X2 (which is likely to be in the nintendo) is going to be around 1.5 tflops. Those are mobile SoC's with CUDA cores, fit OK in tablets (Pixel C has one), X1 peak power consumption is about 10 watts.

Xbox one GPU is 1.3 tflops and PS4 is 1.8 tflops. So in the same ballpark
Most likely lazy-loading libraries
Here's an interesting problem I hadn't thought about before. Teslas are expensive and rich people drive in different places than poor people, so teslas will have more data about places rich people go. That's another interesting data imbalance.
Not sure why you're comparing Teslas to Bugattis, McLarens and Ferraris. They have a completely diffrent target customer base I'm talking about mainstream consumer cars, not specialized racing and/or luxury cards.
"...sporadic left-wing violence..." I think that was a typo. It should have read "never ending left-wing violence"
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That's a much different than what was posted by the (former) Twitter employee, and could be seen as "troll the TSA" more than a "tiny genitals" line.

The person in question was much more specific with their language.

But regardless. The OP was on about the erosion of "classical liberalism" in the US. Which rarely said anything about how private businesses should operate. The philosophy is largely built upon how government should govern.

How is that "classical liberalism"? Which basically hues to the mantra "Government that governs least governs best." FORCING companies to hire whoever doesn't sound like small government.

The other points stand as well. Waving away our awful history of mistreating one group or another, as if we were more fair or tolerant in the past. What?

He seems to think so-called SJW's are growing in numbers without backing it up. More NOISE from that segment does not mean it's growing or usurping anything.

And there are indeed plenty of people out there that still believe limited government is best.

No one is guaranteed a job in this country. It's highly likely that Twitter did fire them over this. But it's up to them to prove it. Twitter can say "not a culture fit" or "rethinking strategy, didn't need the headcount."

And regardless. As if this would be the straw that breaks the camels back and gets people SO riled up over the inequities in our society is laughable. Poor high tech worker! So oppressed.

The QQ'ing is strong in this thread.
That's just not Nintendo's style. They pretty much always shun new tech and instead prefer to use established tech in new ways.

And yes the 3DS has some minor AR, but that was just a tiny little gimmick/experiment.
> And to round everything off, WebRTC is available free to everyone, providing a tempting and reliable framework for developers to build their next application.

Is it me, or that doesn't have to do with security? Sounds like a sales pitch.
Subways make sense in dense urban areas - When a lot of people are within walking distance from the subway station.

For SF to justify extensive subway infrastructure, it needs to start building higher density neighborhoods.
Having to pay a annual fee, a credit check and get an invite to use it? Might as well just use my AMEX or my debit card. My bank is more crazy over transactions than anything.

Walk into a Wal-Mart, as soon as I put the card in my phone rings (it's my bank) and card is denied.

AMEX likes to text and email me of things needing my confirmation.

If all else Privacy.com does the job just fine of generating new cards, burners, and etc.
Time for a credit freeze
It is what they appear to be referring to, given the fact that they are saying "using a self-driving Tesla...for revenue purposes will only be permissible on the Tesla Network". So you can drive people for money, or you can let it self-drive on the Tesla Network, but it can't connect to other, non-Tesla-Network software. Now, it could, maybe, also mean that a self-driving Tesla would be prohibited from being leased out for a night without using software to mediate the transaction. But I think this pretty clearly refers to hooking up a self-driving Tesla to an Uber or Lyft style app.

Edit: and they've certainly seen the trouble that Uber and Lyft have gotten into insurance-wise with regards to carrying passengers as a "public accomodation". It's quite possible that they want to handle this centrally for insurance purposes. Which are bound to be a challenge with regards to self-driving cars.
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