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>just last week someone got sued by Microsoft or EA (dont really remember) for running a game server they reverse engineered for a game they don't even support anymore!

They weren't sued, they got a letter from EA telling them to stop using EA trademarks and to stop distributing the EA client software. The letter[1] said nothing about shutting down the servers themselves.

[1] https://reviveheroes.com/notice/
Tesla logs more miles per day than Waymo recorded in its history, but Waymo has better software just because of their simulations of the real world. See https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid...
It means it's gone, if the contract is followed. But a hardfork of Ethereum could change the rules to recover the coins.

A similar recovery already happened once, after somebody exploited a bug in The DAO, resulting in a fork into Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, which rejected changing the rules to bail out bugged but too-big-to-fail smart contracts.

> In May of 2016, a venture capital fund called The DAO built on Ethereum raised around $168 million, with the intention of investing in projects using smart contracts. In the same month a paper was released detailing security vulnerabilities with The DAO that could allow ether to be stolen. In June, 3.6 million Ether (approximately $50 million USD) was taken from accounts in The DAO and moved to another account without the owners' consent, exploiting one of the vulnerabilities that had been raised in May. Members of The DAO and the Ethereum community debated what actions, if any, should occur to resolve the situation. A vote occurred and in July 2016 it was decided to implement a hard fork in the Ethereum code and to move the Ether taken in the exploit to a new smart contract through which it would be restored to the owners from whom it had been taken.

> Ethereum Classic came into existence when some members of the Ethereum community rejected the hard fork on the grounds of "immutability", the principle that the blockchain cannot be changed, and decided to keep using the unforked version of Ethereum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic
this can be just a footnote in some manual coming with the cpu, which is likely the thing that actually made the information public.
I imagine that stopping the car remotely is the least of a teledriver can do.

Unless you mean, is there a button inside the car? I don't know if that is of much importance, seeing as there isn't anyone physically there to press the button.
I'm not sure about "at a moment's notice", but yes they're supposed to have live operators standing by who can remotely direct the vehicles when needed. Since these are Level 4 vehicles, they should be able to safely pull over or stop when they are unsure what to do, so it isn't necessary to have a human continuously monitoring at all times.
You can use those APIs but AV and dynamic sandbox analysis solutions look for samples that make decisions based on the return value of those functions.
I just saw somebody mention (on an amazon review for an Aukey charger) that their USB-C car charger was interfering with TPMS system on their car. That's a little scary. Hopefully they'll get it ironed out soon.

I realize TPMS is not 2.4gz but thought that was relevant to interference concerns
That's about as reasonable as saying the US is a Canadian puppet because of their troops stationed at NORAD. Do you really consider Poland a puppet because of the 112 US troops there [0]?
I hope this is a troll.

[0] https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dwp/rest/download?fileName=DMD...
Last year, in a fit of nostalgia I finally bought an Apple IIe, a system I had wanted 30 years ago, at a garage sale. Somehow in moving it back to my house, I dislodged the floppy controller card, leaving the system to boot from ROM. I turned it on, it beeped, and there was the prompt. I perceived it as instantaneous. I know that from that point I could have written a BASIC program and saved it to a cassette tape. The anecdote falls apart once you actually start trying to boot ProDOS from disk and have to rely on the something besides solid state.

This experience got me thinking. What has changed in the meantime? Computers have become communication devices and communications devices have become computers (though even this ancient Apple came to me with a modem installed). Developer time has outstripped hardware costs, and somehow an hour of developer time is worth the same as wasting a million hours of the users' time (1 million users x 1 hour or whatever formula you wish).

I think we all recognize this problem, and it's already too expensive to fix. The hardware and software space are too federated, too balkanized, too complicated to ever integrate a system into a cohesive whole in the way the Apple II was.
Happy react router user here, at various major versions. Thanks for the great work!

> Yes, 4.0 was a big change, but a necessary one. Now that we're in a great place, we plan on keeping things relatively stable indefinitely.

Out of curiosity, was this also the thinking when 3.x was released?

Or when 3.x was released was there more of a philosophy that the problem space was still being explored, and major design changes were still possible and acceptable?
Exactly. When somebody uses Atom, he cannot complain about performance compared to compiled apps. And saying this as huge fan of Atom.
Why? Mining allows you to certify transactions and create a tangible thing. How is that worse than electricity from credit card terminals, etc?
Apparently, these are all denial of service attacks using a specially crafted USB device that you have to physically insert into the Linux machine.

Pulling the plug sounds easier :)
Gdoc SSH Manager. Managed SSH Access via Google Sheets
Why another email verification service?
> we still debate if carbs are bad for us

Aren't (most) carbs bad for us (chains of sugar)? A low carb diet isn't pushed. It's quite the opposite. Keto/Mediterranean are seen as too extreme.
Frozen money. Doesn't sound like a cash replacement to me.
Yes I suppose it was.
JDBI3 [1] has Kotlin plug-ins [2], and makes it easy to create simple DAOs without having to inform the framework about the entire database structure.

1: https://jdbi.github.io/
2: https://jdbi.github.io/#_sqlobject
I paid him like $10, totally worth it.
does that effectively imply numerical algorithms, at the intersection of statistics and programming, or linera algebra and optimization.
Aww thanks much! :D Yeah I just lack confidence I guess since reversing binaries has always seemed a bit intense. I need to finally buy a really good code reversal tool and then start my quest to reproduce! :) It would be great if me or someone else was successful since then the N64 could be more easily developed for on any OS!!
The right tool for the job != whatever tool is in your expertise area.
> The amount of discussion on HN about the GPL, and whether a project is or isn't complying with it, makes me think it's not so easy.

I think it's not that the GPL is unclear; it's that people want to violate its provisions while not being held liable for their violations. 'We want three parallel red lines, one green and one black, all intersecting.'
This nightmare has been building for 4 decades and it's finally reaching a breaking point.

Here's my recommendation:

- Work with builders to remove all regulations that prevent building.

- Zone much more residential areas

- Remove all height restrictions

- invite builders to build and offer them legal protection from NIMBYs

- dezone some of non-residential zoning, if needed: In places where there's limited space, we need to move those companies to locations that can handle the influx of workers

- declare certain areas as innovation building zones: Remove all building regulations and let start ups build whatever residential areas in any way they can. Let innovation blossom without hamstringing it with countless regulations.

There are good reasons why this trillion dollar PROBLEM/pain point/industry has been completely ignored by venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. We need to understand those reasons and mitigate those concerns.
I hope someone was sitting there in front of live feed with big red STOP EVERYTHING button.
I think that 'really good developers' would better spend their time replacing the JavaScript ecosystem, not continuing to prop it up. The modern web platform is a security, privacy & performance nightmare, and there's no way to fix it; we need to burn it to the ground and start over again.
> They are all "elected" officials so therefore "directly" "accountable".

Please look into how campaign funding works. The fundamental problem is that if you employ half of the city, you have quite a bit more leverage than the mayor.
Nigeria is looking to review its Cybercrime Act
Giantbomb doesn't, as far as I can tell. Jeff Gerstmann started the site shortly after he was let go from GameSpot (rumored) for posting a low-score review of a game which was advertising heavily on their platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gerstmann#Termination_fro...
Both of mine are Intel-branded, I forget which models. (They're in a box of things I've been too lazy to try to sell.)

I really love the form factor - about four of these would replace close to a kW-worth of hardware I currently run, and could hide in a closet. Maybe I should try again with known-good versions.
Disney puts out a lot of films, many through subsidiaries. Certainly Disney Children's Animated Film is going to get a lot of ticket sales regardless of reviews, but Marvel Comic Book Movie: The Comic Book We All Forgot About is something I'd like to check a review for -- especially if I'm considering bringing my child, I want to have some idea of what lines its crossing.
I mean, I certainly hope so. If they could also restore my skin turgor. And gait function.
Yeah I picked a couple of ones that didn't seem quite there. For me the most interesting prediction has been 2029 for the Turing test which he's been saying since 2000 or so. The hardware seems pretty much on track. It will be interesting to see if the software gets sorted in the next 12 years or not.
The interstate highway system is an enormous and expensive asset paid for by the taxpayers of the US. Shouldn't we have a conversation about the rights of citizens before allowing corporations to set a precedent that we will not be able to roll back later?
Domestic has a technical meaning: a company registered in a US state. To do business in the US you have to spin up a US company. Toyota USA would be taxed for global Toyota income. You could try to mitigate that by saying these rules only apply to companies whose ownership or control structure is more than 25% american, directly or indirectly. But yeah, these side effects are part of why I say I don’t agree with such a proposal.
and pay it in a coin
Do we have a good signal that truly indicates Waymo has more advanced tech? Or could they simply have a bigger appetite for risk?
From your Wikipedia link:

"I would like to close by clearing up a few misconceptions and also correcting a couple of errors. First, I REALLY am not angry with Linus. HONEST. He's not angry with me either. I am not some kind of "sore loser" who feels he has been eclipsed by Linus. MINIX was only a kind of fun hobby for me. I am a professor. I teach and do research and write books and go to conferences and do things professors do. I like my job and my students and my university. [...] I wrote MINIX because I wanted my students to have hands-on experience playing with an operating system. After AT&T forbade teaching from John Lions' book, I decided to write a UNIX-like system for my students to play with. [...] I was not trying to replace GNU/HURD or Berkeley UNIX. Heaven knows, I have said this enough times. I just wanted to show my students and other students how you could write a UNIX-like system using modern technology. A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring. [...] Linus seems to be doing excellent work and I wish him much success in the future.

While writing MINIX was fun, I don't really regard it as the most important thing I have ever done. It was more of a distraction than anything else. The most important thing I have done is produce a number of incredibly good students, especially Ph.D. students. See my home page for the list. They have done great things. I am as proud as a mother hen. To the extent that Linus can be counted as my student, I'm proud of him, too. Professors like it when their students go on to greater glory."
Some batches of German ID cards use Infineon chips (I don't know which version as only some seem to be affected). A chip is built into all IDs issues since 2010 but it's disabled or at least unused on almost all cards. Not sure they actually do key generation on the card which seems to be the affected thing.
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I feel like you're arguing a different point.
And people keep pushing back against the notion that the government shouldn't be giving out money to anyone other than for core governmental services like administrating and servicing the three branches of government and equipping the military. The government shouldn't be in the business of supporting Disney any more than it should support some deadbeat, nor Silicon Valley, let alone foreigners or foreign governments.
Interesting. I haven't brought a shirt from them in a while, but was wearing an old one. Someone liked it and asked me where I got it. It was a Threadless shirt, they make a comment that the quality of the shirt seemed too high to be threadless...
In addition, size. While a drone can navigate flying in a busy street with all kinds of overhead wires, the huge size required for an airship would prevent many usage cases - the thing would simply get entangled in wires.

Airships are the best solution if you need something to stay in a specific area/position for longer times... something like an emergency cellphone/wifi BTS after major disaster strikes, but for moving around? Not really.
"flex-shrink defines if the element is allowed to shrink"
Rhetorical question: Shrink from what? From defined flex-base or from defined width? What is the behavior when they are different?

"you can always stick a wrapper div in the cell"
Nice, tag soup forever.
Yeah I've played on a few different SGI systems (and other UNIX systems that are now a historical curiosity). It never ceases to amaze me how we ended up on Windows. Well, not me specifically as I switched away around 20 years ago but "we" in the broader sense.
It depends what you want to focus on: build a web server or a simple REST framework.

About a decade ago I worked on the query processor component for the Yahoo Vespa platform and I spent a month writing a web server to squeeze as much performance out of the JVM as possible. And indeed it was quite a bit faster than Jetty. Speed being a bit significant when you have a stringent latency budget.

However, I ended up deciding it wasn't really worth it. The extra millisecond or so consumed by Jetty wasn't worth the cost of having to maintain a relatively complete implementation of HTTP. So I took out my implementation and put Jetty back in.
Yeah, I've noticed that too. It always seems to be the math and physics-majors that just swish off biology as 'trivial'. In physics, you can assume a cow is a 1 meter radius sphere of density 1. You can be fine with that approximation. In biology, you are very very interested in the exact number of cells in the lining of that cow's third stomach 5 minutes after it ate wheat. Approximations don't really work in such complex systems as a mammal.
>driverless cars will have sensors and cameras that wil report anything back to the police

Well, driverless cars do have extensive sensor suites, and if you are a hit and run driver and I had a photo of your license plate, I would certainly use that to my advantage. I think you're reading the worst possible thing into what people are saying, which is your prerogative, but probably not constructive.

>And like I said, major tech companies are actually tracking every vehicle that drives by them, and reporting it to the police already.

Well yeah, that's what palantir does: they contract with governments and police departments to improve surveillance infrastructure. But assuming that because Palantir does that, everyone else will too is as silly as assuming that Amazon is going to come out with a Facebook clone. It's not in their business models.
jeasus christ I dont know why you all are literally sticking your heads in the sand about asking questions and thinking answers.

"because money" isnt a freaking answer to the questions I have posed - so fucking man up and answer if you know?

Just because self driving tech is the new hotness doesnt mean that we can be ignorant to the consequenses and then thought-shame me for asking questions.

An engineer of any of his salt should posit an answer, and I literally asked for an ELI5 to some of these things and was met by a bunch of jerks who think that these are stupid questions to ask.

WTF HN?
Marvel films are covered by this as well.
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Because "cheaper" is cheaper than "cheap".

I don't ride-share with Lyft because the per-ride cost is cheap enough for me -- but that's not true for everyone. No matter how cheap it is, there will always be people that want to pay less.

Plus, when cities are inundated with car-shares and institute congestion pricing, even if the car is cheap, the $20 congestion charge can be split among the riders.
Star Wars Fans: Nvidia Has a GPU for Your Light and Dark Side
I feel like this is the core of how "Open Software" is aiming to combat this. By removing the consumer-driven model away from software and putting users in closer touch with developers, we are supposedly developing tools together that better fit our needs. Though, OSS arguably is struggling to meet this theoretical ideal, especially with the current lack of support most OSS devs have.

My life improved considerably when I switched from Sublime to vim, Excel to VisiData, Word to LaTeX (though, I am unsure if LaTeX is completely OSS), etc. I invested the time in learning the language of the tool, but it pays off in droves.
That would make sense, as flaky as Bluetooth can be one of its more futuristic features is supposed to be aggressive frequency hopping to avoid interference.
BlockChain application advisors
Where do you typically find advisors for your blockchain applications or any other applications for that matter ? Meetups, messaging, etc ? How do you go about proposing to a potential advisor ? Also if anyone is interested in learning more about “BadgeForce - A digital badging platform powered by Ethereum” let me know :)
Good point. Idk how I forgot about that.
I'm aware, I live in Phoenix :) I'm referring to this bit

> I predict Waymo will price their service competitively, will ramp up to a large fleet, and that after a few months Uber / Lyft will be in trouble

Waymo vehicles are far less ubiquitous than either Lyft/Uber vehicles. I expect to see a growth in Waymo cars, I just mean that I don't think we will see a huge ramp up in the number of driverless Waymo vehicles soon as people need time to acclimate and no one yet knows what the response will be. IT will happen, just not immediately.
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It was only recently bumped up.

You can help out by contributing testing etc. in babel[0] or typescript

[0] https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/6015
...what? I don’t understand. It’s accurate at “close zoom” because the limit as you scale in to the surface of a sphere is a flat surface. I’m not sure what compression of any sort has to do with this.
I disagree because murder would still be possible, which would make the pack mentality of conservative institutions that much more attractive.
Setbacks and Land Consolidation
No surprise that there are next to no comments on this article. All you object orientated money worshippers should be ashamed!
This is mostly the result of the severe underdevelopment of new housing in the last 20 or 30 years, due to neighborhoods preventing any sort of development to stymy gentrification. The situation is made worse by the disincentivisaiton of selling any property because of Prop 13. Why would you ever move if your property taxes would increase by an order of magnitude? All the market distortion has led to predictable outcomes, the new tech employees living in the old crappy housing for exorbitant rents, and the poor pushed onto the streets.
Yeah, because every criticism is justified only if the critic can replicate the same work better... /s
Cantina Talk: The Last Jedi's Secrets Are Starting to Leak
Why shouldn't it anger a lot of people? Why can't we preserve America for Americans?
Reading the Parity claim on Github

> Parity's goal is to be the fastest, lightest, and most secure Ethereum client.

with all the recent past in mind, makes it sound pathetic. I'll continue to use geth, although it didn't board the cool-kids-Rust-train.
https://wicg.github.io/webusb/
You don't even need to remove all height restrictions (even though it might be useful).

See http://urbankchoze.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/japanese-zoning.ht... for an overview over the Japanese system. One of the key features is that the different zones allow much more different uses in Japan.
I wonder if the child sex abuse problem in hollywood will ever be blown wide open like this current scandal was. I imagine it is comparably widespread and it's a /much/ greater threat to the reputations of those involved, so really any measures to keep it covered up would seem justifiable those on the inside.
coercion throws a type error - you can only do ops between bigints
If it's anything like cities near me, the problem is that the elected officials have concentrated their concerns on one area of the city, and neglected other areas. Disney tax breaks are probably great for Disney and the immediate area, but Anaheim has a lot of area outside the immediate area of Disneyland.

In the Bay Area, see how San Jose officials spends so much focus on the downtown, but the city is very spread out, and many residents have no connection to downtown.
>"Do whatever the human would do, but more efficient" isn't an answer. These cars can't get on WTOP the day before and listen to the warning that the Pope is visiting and X, Y, Z streets will be blocked off. One can imagine various contingency scenarios, but the devil is in actually handling all the edge cases.

Google maps already accounts for changes in traffic patterns and actively detects road closures, both based on municipal announcements and traffic flow data.

So yeah, they'd work the exact same way that I commuted on the east coast (which is the same way I commute in SV): the maps application had traffic information updates faster than the radio.

The answer is "do whatever the humans do, but more efficient", because the same technology has already made humans more efficient.
Nah. She hired the smartest people in a room, the ones that laughted at Trumps digital operation. There was an article in 2016 that compared Clinton's Silicone Valley staffed machine with a pile of Macbook carrying geeks, big data, mobile developers vs. that sleepy dude in a corner. A few google queries can't seem to find it but i will dig it out later. It was that priceless.

The SV circle jerk worked about as well as expected.
Berlin startup raises nearly $12M to create first equity token
Creating Interactive Charts with PHP and Cassandra
What stops you from declaring

table { display:block; }

etc. if you need to transform your table into vertical flow layout?
So, I didn't realize coin miners are using peoples' browsers like this until Strudel sent me a link to his repo. I wonder how people feel about this; is it ethical?
Most of the trouble is on the module boundary, so improving the modules themselves probably isn't worth as much as you'd think.