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I was thinking about that and it would have to be perfect if it traced the actual road. Imagine if it traced slightly off the road or into another lane, the first person who would follow it into oncoming traffic would put an end to the whole project.

Maybe recognize and highlight exit signs that you need to turn off on. It's usually high on the windshield and therefore not as distracting.

Parking assist is another thing that isn't quite right. It alarms me when I'm still a foot or two away. When I turn it off, I park much more precisely. It probably made a hell of a lot of money though, selling to car manufacturers.
You need to come up with a stronger argument than software should be free, because it's easier to copy than viagra.
average joes probably aren't reading things on an obscure medium blog getting linked on hacker news. this community has read, in depth, the similar writings by Schneier and the rest.
Shouldn't it also be removing "http(s)://" regardless of whether or not the domain is prefixed with "www."?
No, you don't need 100 different jars. Let's say the jar started with S beans, and the person grabbed X_1, X_2, .. X_n beans in n trials. To prove the superpower, you have to tell him the correct value of X_i every time. Knowing S beforehand does not help you unless you can calculate S-X-i without knowing X_i.
I'm surprised people even arrived at the island.
Do you expect a government-funded education system to teach them real economics?
I agree that this effectively counters the lock and door analogy, and that it's better to avoid these analogies all together when making the case for strong encryption.

Another line of argument is to emphasize the extent that our digital economy and national security rely on strong encryption. If you outlaw it, then all of our online banking and shopping, corporate and government secrets, and more are vulnerable to hackers and foreign governments. And just as the conservative gun advocacy argument goes, outlawing it won't necessarily take encryption out of the hands of criminals, only law-abiding citizens.
>So for example, there's a thing going around Facebook with Jimmy Kimmel about healthcare, which has everyone saying that no one should never need to consider finances when their child is sick. This is plainly false in the general case, because it would imply infinite resources. In the real world, there will always be a point at which we must say "no more".

That's not "plainly" false, unless you know some medical treatments that cost an infinite amount of money to perform. If we assume that less than 1% of patients are catastrophically expensive, then based on actual data it looks like dropping them all would save less than 20% of total spending, possibly a lot less.
With Chromebooks that support android you can run linux via termux for console linux
I like your point. Were I the guy I'd have tried to push an agreement that they'd publish the source of their games once they had been discontinued for over 20 years or something like that.
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The next step would be to outlaw fire because of its ability to render paper 100% unrecoverable.
should be illegal
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People using Bootstrap end up serving a lot of CSS that isn't even used in the end. Using a minimal framework like that one allows you to have a solid skeleton without any extra features on which you can build.
You don't necessary need ultrasound, but a modulation scheme to put the sound energy outside of hearing range. Ultrasound can be unreliable since phones have different frequency response that affects sensitivity. Also compression tends to apply low pass filter, so overall the range is quite variable.

To combat this, you can add forward error correction code, and have the audio source transmit data at low bit rate. Also, it's possible to modulate data using spread spectrum sequence (similar to GPS and ultrawideband) to reduce the energy below hearing threshold.

The state of the art is not to embed data at all, but use audio fingerprinting, aka Shazam.
My bottleneck is still speed of reading data from json. I wonder whether I should wait for features to be built out here or go down the path of writing a custom data reader in C++
If I steal your house, that means that you lost it. The same isn't true for the code, as Blizzard would still also have it (along with the right to distribute binary copies of it, which is a million times more valuable).
sounds like companies should offer data recovery options for discontinued accounts.
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I remember reading about those; allegedly, those are used by estate agents when showing houses for sale. Apparently those boxes are often really easy to break into.
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> I guess the conclusion of your view is that: If people were more diligent about handling their money, banks wouldn't make as much risk-free money.

That's very likely the case. Although the real world does not like zeros and tries hard to push some complex high order effects that will be triggered before any zero is realized.
> It seems odd to sue the models when this kind of lawbreaking is so common

this may be the event that we've been waiting for, the big, precedence-setting lawsuit that makes this no longer OK, socially or legally
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I don't really get the draw towards crypto-currencies - aside from mining them to bring more into the pool of available currency - is there a point to purchasing or using them to make purchases?

Is there a reason I should start using these currencies? Aside from trading currencies to make a few bucks?
You make a really good point. HN seems to venerate startups that fail, which isn't very different from defaulting on a loan (and in many cases these startups are defaulting on loans as they shut down).

Yet, in any thread where Greece, Puerto Rico, etc come up there's this strong backlash against defaulting as being somehow immoral (as though it's not written into the lending agreements). What exactly is the difference between burning a bunch of VC money then shutting down and defaulting on a loan? In both cases we have an institution putting money at risk in the hopes of making a profit, and then losing it. I don't see the big moral difference here.
We were doing the same, if you add in forging metal, in 2000-2001, so I doubt it's changed much.
"If we don’t get women and people of color at the table.."

Isn't China investing heavily in AI? Are they not 'of color'? Or does she mean "at the table in the US"?

Edit: "If we don’t have the representative technologists of humanity sitting at the table, the technology is inevitably not going to represent all of us."

But having AI entirely developed and owned by a handful of multinational corporations is going to 'represent' all of us? Never mind tackling the question who will reap most of its benefits, and who will end up unemployed and homeless.
That's a misleading metaphor. A country that includes 300 million people cannot be a safe place like a home, or even a workplace. Anything you might be afraid of is already here, somewhere.
This looks a lot like a 0day exploit posted to get traffic and exposure for their startup.
We know the problems of long-term exposure to zero-G, but will long-term exposure to .3G have them?

I'm genuinely curious.
The iso and the disc contain a finger print -> they know it must be you -> you lose
> 1337 1337 1337 1337 Erlich Bachman

Seems legit. Also, I hope that CC number on your top background image is flagged to never be handed out to a real customer ;)

Otherwise this looks promising. I hope to see something like this in the USA soon!
But as a consumer, what the heck am I buying? I'm not buying a physical product, I'm buying a sequence of 0 and 1. It's a license to use said app. It's not the 90's anymore where you own a CD with your program and that is your product. I cannot re-sell the "used app" when I don't use it anymore.

So if I buy the 'license' to use your app, I'm gonna be real effin pissed if I can't use it on all my devices.

Actually tying your purchase to your Apple ID is much better for the dev, because only YOU can use it. A CD with software is much easier to share with your friends.
There is some fundamental irony in a VR company not allowing remote work (during the first year of employment).
Nintendo actually made rounded Lego-style blocks in 1968-72 called N&B Block http://blog.beforemario.com/2011/10/nintendo-n-block-introdu...
> Not in the sense that everyone must be the same culture, but the ideals and ethics of the two cultures must be rooted in similar things.

[Citation needed]. The cultures should only be compatible - not necessarily rooted in similar things. Japanese zen-buddhist shame culture is not rooted in similar things as America's typical protestant Christian guilt culture. To my knowledge Japanese immigrants did (and still do) integrate well.

Humans are ridiculously adaptable, I would argue the reverse of your argument - that there is no culture on earth that precludes any immigrant from flourishing in modern, secular western countries. In fact, voluntary immigrants are preselected for willingness to adapt.
Maybe I shouldn't have been so generally anti-regulation in my initial post; I am specifically referring to regulation that exists solely to protect large corporations and their monopolies - these do seem to be more common at the state and local level.

Your points are taken.
If your data has a little extra structure that isn't shared by JSON in general, you could probably get serious performance gains by rolling your own.
This could be big. One of the most common complaints about Electron I've heard is the file size and cpu load. In short, nice work!

I know it would add extra time to the build on the programmer end, but what about component API's -- to keep build size at a minimum while allowing access? I haven't looked at any of the code -- would this be possible?

Any thoughts?
We're working on this at CryptoMove: https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2017/03/29/n...
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It's much higher, actually. There's data on it from the 70's and 80's which is the biggest reason the laws were changed. If I remember correctly, yearly drunk driving fatalities quickly went down 60%.
Liquidity is the only measure that really matters for money. One measure of liquidity/market depth could be: for how many USD can you buy/sell while only moving the price, say, 1%. To get a more detailed picture you could plot it on a graph with USD amount on one axis and slippage (price change) on the other axis.

You'd have to merge the order books of all exchanges for a particular coin, and execute the order against that. I'm fairly certain that by this measure, Bitcoin is multiple orders of magnitudes more liquid than all other crypto currencies combined.
If the attacker can run binary code on your desktop, you're lost any way
and, you know, google also made an office suite free before Apple made theirs free.
Well, the article says they rejected 0.1% of the applicants for "feeble mindedness", and yet the rate of mental retardation in the adult population seems to be about 0.6%

So it really doesn't seem that many people had trouble solving it.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00040023.htm
Why not only use a small http server with something like luajit for os/database access and javascript for presentation/navigation ?
It seems that you think that following the law is the right thing to do. That's an understandable point of view. But there's also something called civil disobedience. Sometimes the will of the commons should trump law. Is this one of those cases? Frankly, I don't know or care. But I think if you don't try to understand what you call the "vigilante" point of view, you're doing yourself a disservice.
Congestion can be addressed by privatizing bus services. No, seriously.

Every country and city seems to love to nationalize something. In the U.S. every city has done that with bus services. But if you look around the world you'll find places like Buenos Aires that have not done this and have a thriving bus industry that can get you from very close to point A to very close to point B in much less time than buses in the U.S. and with fewer transfers.

But now consider something like Uber/Lyft for _small_ buses: routes need not be set in stone. You pre-arrange every day where and when to get picked up and dropped off. This can probably get much closer to the travel times that private cars can deliver.

Bikes are not the answer, incidentally. Only a small proportion of the population in the U.S. will use them, and only a small proportion of the population in American cities lives 0-5mi from work. We don't build high pop. density cities in the U.S. anymore. The re-zoning plans in Austin (to give one example) call for adding in the next decade just one third of the housing Austin needs, thus increasing sprawl -- this happens because of NIMBYism, and the story is the same just about everywhere that isn't already a high pop. density city. Besides, bikes are scary and dangerous to a very large number of people.
regarding #1, Core isn't incompetent; This is currently the exact situation they want to hold (preventing a hard fork and block size limit increase).

They have nefariously manipulated media communications for years to fool people into only accepting a soft fork because they've convinced people a soft fork is somehow safer and any hard fork is automatically contentious. As long as a hard fork is never initiated, they retain write access to the github repo and therefore maintain control of the "default" Bitcoin client. And as long as Greg Maxwell is in charge, he can continue to receive funding for his startup (blockstream).

But yea, crippling layer 1 intentionally and misleading people for their own benefit is incredibly fucked up.
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I would love to have a two screen eReader that would open like a physical book. It could have multiple modes of operation:

1. a page turn would change both displays like a physical book
2. a page turn would just shift one page over and bring up the next page
3. one page could be 'pinned' and page turning would just occur on the unpinned screen

I would also like to be able to create bookmark 'pairs' that would bring up two (not necessarily adjacent) pages of my choosing. I think this would make eReaders much more useful for technical books.
There are a lot of things being written outside of Node currently [1]. However, a large number of the tools are in node, primarily because lots of people at Mapbox are using Node. However, most of these are backed by C++ libraries so the potential is there for lots of porting to different languages, other people simply need to build against them. Some of the non-Mapbox libraries are not as up to date with the specification, but they are getting much better!

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Ugh. Are they really talking about Latency, or are the numbers they cite actually RTT? And are the numbers the loop latency, or end-to-end latency to some destination on the public network such as 8.8.8.8?

For comparison my CableCo connection in the left-middle of America achieves a loop RTT of about 10ms (5ms Latency), and an RTT to 8.8.8.8 of 25ms (12.5ms Latency).
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Iphones have built in security backdoor called trust apple code signing. That is the foundation of their walled garden.

So far Apple seem to protect it pretty well. They show that only the good guys can control the backdoor argument is not without merit.
Google doesn't even apply the permissions very tightly. App makers are happy to ignore recommendations(I don't think they're requirements) to work, even if not granted the permission. They just do things like prompt over and over or completely stop working if they detect they're given the fake, default data from not being given permission to things like your Contacts or Location. There's no user agency in Android 6.0+ permissions really, the apps can just hold their functionality over the users' head until they accede.

Also, Android permissions are strange. Like, why does an app need access to Contacts to use my Google Account to sign in? An account is not a contact and just because I want to let you unify my logins, that doesn't mean I want you to have access to my contacts.
"Maybe there's a stable region or set of regions you can target (in which case the high overall mutation rate doesn't matter). Or a cocktail of sequences, specific to the global HIV population (I doubt this, HIV mutates more in a single individual than Flu does in the global population)."

Hmm... I would bet that there is a cocktail of sequences such that if they are not conserved, the virus effectively becomes no longer HIV (no longer infectious, no longer capable of producing symptoms...).

HIV is obviously not a human being, right? Find every sequence where it differs, target them all. :-)
Agreed. I tell people often that properly applying updates and using plugins and themes from trusted developers in conjunction with a service like Sucuri or WP Extra Care makes your site as close to impenetrable as is realistically possible.
VMS style versioning is not at all what I meant. What I meant is the OS implements the inode just like a versioned file in an SCM.

Consider the /etc stuff. You wack apache's config, so does debian, you do an apt-get upgrade and it either automerges or you get presented with the 3 way merge in $EDITOR or our graphical file merge.

In many cases, the system can just automerge it (BitKeeper has a pretty sophisticated way of doing, it's better than other answers in a lot of cases) and when it can't you get access to the full DAG and can use all the SCM tools to merge.
Thank you. As a statistician, the fact that mixed effects models (e.g. does this rater tend to rate high?) are overlooked is, IMHO, a death sentence. Too much nomenclature, too early (link to the table within the text, please, and omit needless words), and with too little attention paid to the value of an external citation.

Also, MCMC for ratings? Surely you jest. If the author had touched on mixed models, then maybe it would make sense. But given the sample sizes involved here, and the noise in the variance estimates, I recommend that the author investigate mixed models tout suite if they do in fact care about the sources of shared and unshared effects on variance. Because that is what mixed models do.
I interviewed one, and it was a second-round interview! Granted, it only happened the one time, but it's a funny anecdote.
People are spending even less on cheaper android hardware. So it might even be the opposite, that since you bought an expensive hardware you can at least pay a couple of dollars for that app that you could also get for free. You don't buy the cheapest tires on your expensive car ;)
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The US Department of Defense arguably runs the most extensive key escrow system in the world. Every DoD employee and many contractors have Common Access Cards (CAC) that contain email encryption keys that are escrowed with DISA.
Of course, that perfection is achieved by shifting all your risk to key distribution.

I think of OTPs as a form of time-shifting. Think of it this way: if you and your correspondent have viable OTPs, that implies that, at some point in the past, you securely communicated that OTP. Since it is (at least) the length of a future message, you could have just passed a secure message then. Instead, you passed something that enables passing a secure message now.
You don't see any difference between physical property and source code?

I can't wait until you find out that sufficiently old intellectual property goes public, while sufficiently old houses don't go public! Have fun blaming that on me splitting hairs when it wasn't my idea.

More seriously, intellectual property is a number of different things lumped together, and they serve different purposes. Copyright exists to encourage new works, and while you can make arguments that there are some benefits from copyright being long-lasting on the creation of works like books and pictures, it's basically impossible to make a similar argument for code.
A stab at a shorter version. Feel free to steal, improve, and then take credit. Takes his best point and then adds some examples of why it is scary:

If device makers and online services are required to set aside a master key for the government, how would we be protected from abuse if the government was ever to become corrupt?

If pervs at the Department of Homeland Security wanted to rifle through pictures of our children, they could. With enough government corruption, if the local sheriff, or the US President, or anyone in between, wanted to read the most private thoughts shared with us by our loved ones, they could... keeping in mind that even if we have nothing to hide, our loved ones might like their privacy.

The more corrupt the government, the more ways they would dream up to abuse the power of this kind of mandatory master key.

In the case of the US, thankfully our government is headed by people with the highest ethical standards... oh, wait, it isn't!

Besides privacy invasion by rogue government employees, the other problem is the fact that such keys can, and likely will, leak out to bad people who will use them to get into our bank accounts and take our money. Even the US NSA cannot protect its most dangerous hacking tools from being released on the internet. It won't be able to protect this master key capability either.

Requiring a master key for the government would be a very misguided and dangerous policy.
Isn't there a good (possible) URL parser out there so substr can be avoided? Manual string editing of data in a known format seems dirty and a source of possible bugs to me.
Can't you take down the old app? Maybe previous owners can continue to use and download it but new customers won't be able to find it in the search.
Yup, I'm not sure it was amazingly popular with either. The Amazon appstore has a bit of an uphill battle in the regard in general AFAIK.

In regard to your other points I also happened across this today:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/spotify...

Interesting how quickly these subscription services are losing money and how low the rate of return to the artist is.
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I disagree. America has been and should continue to be a diverse melting pot, accepting peoples and ideals from all corners of the globe. We shouldn't try to weed out people based on something like intelligence or a vague notion of "cultural fit," as though some people should be held to a higher standard to live in this country based purely on an accident of birth. We should accept immigrants based on capacity. I know it sounds quaint and hokey, but I really believe in the words engraved at the foot of the statue of liberty:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
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