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The autopilot has to outperform trained experts with hundreds of flight hours and an exceptionally high code of personal conduct.

Self driving cars have to outperform the average person who drives like a 100-year-old blind dog who’s texting while driving and drinking a smoothie. Also, their failure mode is easier and much less expensive.
Amazon only requires id when you order from Amazon Global, and that's because customs requires Indians to provide identity and address proof when you're importing something. If you don't want to provide it to Amazon, you have the option of providing it to the courier service (FedEx/Aramex/whatever). Also, you can provide any other address proof like driving license, electricity bill, voter id etc. Aadhaar is convenient because it is one of the few documents that are accepted as proof of both identity and address (passport, driving license, voter id and ration card are the others).

So, yes, clickbait article.
Yeah. Just like drugs.
> We've known that humans tailgate like hell for decades, and haven't found a cure.

Haven't found a solution, or have found one and haven't implemented it? For example, I've been recently pondering how to resolve tailgating. How about a system like this:

Vehicles will be mandated to have distance sensors in both front and rear (some already have this for sake of back-up cameras and auto-braking), essentially a car sonar system. If your car is moving, it detects the distance between you and those in front and in back. If you are traveling too closely to the car in front of you (tailgating), your vehicle will be mandated to emit a warning buzz sound in the cabin, which intensifies in strength the smaller the gap. For someone tailgating you, perhaps a visual indication behind.

This way the closer one tailgates, the more audible (and possibly visual) feedback a driver gets. Hopefully the audio is annoying enough that most sensible tailgaters (oxymoron?) would back off.

Strengthen this with a visual indicator on the roof of the vehicle, perhaps, so that if someone is tailgating, a light on the roof turns on indicating such. Would make it trivial for police officers and traffic cams to notice. I think part of bad driving behavior is the anonymity cars today offer: with tinted glass and the feeling like you're in a safe, sound-proof cocoon, so this visual indicator may help shatter that in a good way.
i believe "right-turn-yield-into-another lane" is forbidden in man places for this reason, although I might have misunderstood you.
Could a hash be tricked if the offender slightly modified the file, or even changed the format?
I'll be interested in understanding the technical safeguards as well, since I am breaking my head on how to do this. One of my projects was about doing OCR on some confidential satellite images and we didn't want to outsource the OCR process solely because we couldn't figure out a scalable way to obfuscate data selectively in images. One early attempt was to recognize numbers using MNIST, get the boundary and clip that boundary with a similar sized black square. This doesn't work for all forms of text though.
a techno club in berlin is a very different experience than a top 40 club in a major north american city and i think a fair part of this conversation is people talking over each other because the word "club" isn't specific enough.
What it also did was transfer a lot of gold from private individuals and corporations to the government.
Keep in mind you are probably saving ~$30k/year in increased housing costs + tax on the income to pay that rent + the impact that has on all the usual pleasures (i.e. eating out).
It's been years now, but it was one of the Sandler Training classes.

https://www.sandler.com/sales-training
Reagan did. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-fires-113...
>When it comes to literally EVERYTHING civilization does, it's always about tradeoffs and acceptable risk, regardless if whether you personally can identify those trades and risks.

FTFY
Those 1400 other parcels did not have their sale overturned if/when protested. This parcel did, potentially because of Sen. Feinstein's involvement or affluence of the residents
Will Tesla Die for Lack of Cobalt?
Chrome will only let a ServiceWorker do work for a max of five minutes. They would still need a hidden window to trigger a new event every five minutes or get the user to allow web push messages so a server can trigger events.

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq...
Imagine if this was United Airlines: They'd send security staff to the homes of vacationing pilots and have them forcibly escorted back into the cockpit, ha!
>we could all just kind of ignore the government.

You mean the government that spent 26 years printing "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" on the bottom of every social security card.
> When you give a bank your money you become an unsecured creditor to the bank.

In quite a few places there are central bank guarantees against bank failures. Usually with some kind of cap, 100K or thereabouts.
Here's more about this plan, which the just-sworn-in Mayor Durkan is now implementing:

"We Can Make Free Community College a Reality for Every Seattle Public High School Graduate": https://medium.com/@JennyforSeattle/we-can-make-free-communi...
Ask HN: What age do you expect to be able to retire?
If you are a software developer or if you work in a software related company, what's the age by you expect to be financially independent such that you no longer need to work solely for the money?

What are some common mistakes software engineers make that prevent them from getting their sooner?
Amazon unwisely failed to consult with William Shatner first; as he would've attested, M5s are not safe for use in Enterprise computing environments.

(cf. ST:TOS "The Ultimate Computer")
Deep Image Prior
Because IRL such appeal to authority holds weight with the public. Whether it should or not is another thing but when a Nobel Prize Winner says something about his field people tend to pay more attention than when the corner hot dog salesman says the same thing.
Down? They've had tons of money and time since June[1] to scale up to handle much larger volume. They don't have a real excuse for these major outages. I got a recruiter email but didn't want to go near them because of how flaky they apparently are.

(Gemini has been much better but they went down for a lot of today too.)

[1] When they had ~4 volume related outages.
Seniority sucks... if you aren't senior.
East Asians wash at night in general (we westerners are oddballs who shower in the morning). When I was living in a dorm in Beijing, the shower would be open in the evening every other day. That was 15 years ago, though.
What is Developer Anarchy and how is it different from Agile development?
Wikipedia says:

“The number of purely Indian pharma companies is fairly low. Indian pharma industry is mainly operated as well as controlled by dominant foreign companies having subsidiaries in India due to availability of cheap labor in India at low”

India will have the largest population within 5 years. I was imagining something much bigger, along with a China like rise in their economy.
Langewiesche thinks that, and I think he's wrong. The only craft we've ever managed to automate well enough to eliminate the human operator is the elevator.

In a generation, we'll probably add fighter pilots to that list. Commercial pilots? Nah. Not with the current paradigm of passenger planes.
Well, flexibility is what I mean. Being an employer of a salaried employee means signing more than just one fixed paycheck per 2 weeks, not questioning when someone requests to be paid more and working with your employees rather than against them in some kind of exact-amount-of-dollars adversarial relationship.

Taking a salaried work means you are being responsible for the well-being of your employees, not just mindlessly handing out fixed amounts of money.
Yes, I am connecting with people locally on the ground and that is going fairly well, well enough to help me get this far. But I need the site and concept better developed and locals cannot help me there.

I could have agreed to do a presentation next Wednesday at a local weekly meeting, but I declined because I only have a half baked idea so far. I don't have anything to present. December is booked, so it will probably be January before they have another slot, but I just don't have this fleshed out enough.

I had flyers for my Write Pay site. The library won't post them. Some places have posted them, but some people think it is a scam, the same thing that gets said about it when I have posted links to it on HN under a now retired, very well established handle. Personal reputation here did little or nothing to get the site taken seriously.

People here accuse me of being a shill for the service I work for. The person on HN who recommended the site to me will not vouch for me. In fact, he dragged my name through the mud for repeating his advice on HN and suggesting it to someone else here a few months after he recommended it to me. When I blogged about that years later and someone else posted that to HN, he denied it. Saving face for himself was his only concern.

There is no good way for me to deal with things like that. Saying nothing means my name remains mud. Saying something means I am guilty of talking trash about respected men. The utter and complete lack of respect for me involved there makes no ones radar. I can't get out from behind nonsense like that.

Anyway, I need a thing -- a site and a program -- that people will not look askance at as a possible pyramid scheme. I need more than a hand wavy "I have a dream" blurb.

I did post it here already as a link this morning. It got zero upvotes and zero comments. Thus, this Ask. Just posting my own writing on HN mostly does not go that well. Once in a while some piece gets well received. The rest of the time, I end up feeling like it was mistake.

I very often feel it is an excuse for people who don't like me to justify their negative opinions and their accusations that my participation is somehow nefarious. It often leaves me feeling like poor people and women are not allowed to want financial success. It often feels like it is against the rules to try to figure out how to succeed in accomplishing anything.

So with the feedback in another comment here, I am fleshing the site out more. I hope to post it as a Show HN soon.

Thank you for commenting.
> We should all be really, really glad that previous innovators did believe in fractional reserve banking, credit markets, and fiat currency. If you like modern life, I mean.

Was there no innovation during the free banking period of 1860-1920? I seem to recall at least one ground-breaking invention that happened during then.
On principle I agree, however Bitcoin poses additional complexities that other commodities do not, specifically in regards to contentious netsplits that result in irreconcilable forks (which may or may not be fighting for the name Bitcoin). In the event of a netsplit, barring physical delivery of actual outputs (private keys, not a settlement transaction), CME has the power to dictate which is settled and even which fork gets the BTC ticker for in-flight contracts. This gives CME quite a bit of influence in the outcome of a fork; for example, what would CME have called Bitcoin if their futures were live during the 2x hard fork? If they were swayed by some of the larger players in the space, this could cause serious consequences for the wider network (confusion, loss of funds and other moral hazards).

This is one of the complexities of the ETF filings, where the filers stated their intention to determine which fork the ETF represented by things like hashpower, market cap or other temporal data points. This is dangerous for many reasons, thus it is best for the contracts to represent all possible future forks and not make a decision on them, allow the private keys to be delivered and allow the party who the coins are delivered to take split as they see fit. While this condition could be represented in a cash settled contract, there are infinite possible forks and CME could not possibly keep up with them all, thus the only practical way to solve the problem is physical delivery of private keys.
Details worth highlighting.. They recommend chrony over ntpd, which makes particular sense given that chrony is designed to work well on virtual machine. They are doing leap second smearing like Google does internally. They don't say anything about what sort of accuracy you can expect but if the clock source is truly local it could be very good.

It's kinda neat they're using a link local address.
Same with object stores, nobody had an offer before S3 proved to be practical for almost everything.
Right, but (without knowing any more details about the case), I'd hope they needed more than that one thing to "nope" him away.
If a company makes less money than others, it will stop investing investingn in itself and divert funds to more profitable ventures. The rate of profit will regulate the amount of capital. The amoubt of capital will regulate the amount of workers.

You cant reduce a compnies profits and think that will increase employment.
The latest axtls port for esp8266 supports TLS 1.2.
The economics prize wasn't even one of the orginal prizes that Nobel created. It was almost definitely invented to justify Western political ideology. I believe the other prizes largely serve a similar purpose these days too, just think of that Obama peace prize.
The fact that a fixed number exists does not limit its utility, as arbitrarily more bitcoins can be created using fractional reserve banking techniques.
At which point you opt back in to the risk. It's not a workable solution.
TrueTime is a lot more than just the NTP service Amazon just announced.
When Spirit's pilots striked, they told me my flight was "delayed or cancelled" (huge difference there first of all) then wouldn't show the actual status until 24 hours before departure at which time they removed the ability to pick a different flight. They literally took my money, cancelled my flight, then refused to give any information or a new flight or refund. Straight robbed. Afterwards they offered everyone something like a $100 voucher that had to be used in 60 days so I said fuck that. I had screenshots of everything and their support was nonexistent since they had cancelled so many flights and it was absolute chaos. I disputed it with my bank which was successful after about 3 months. I am in the US, not sure how disputing is with non-US banks and companies.
Source? I'm pretty sure this isn't true. I worked in aviation for a while and you either work commercial, military, or private and there aren't a lot of private jobs.

Edit: BLS says average pilot salary is 126k[2] and majority are employed by airlines. [1] You're wrong.

1: http://work.chron.com/average-commercial-airline-pilots-sala...
2: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/a...
Can I suggest is encourging user's to get recordings from their children as well, as most speech recognition libraries are pretty poor with children's voices. (IMO Alexa Voice Service is by far the best with children voices.)
Should everything that "doesn’t serve any socially useful function" be outlawed? That seems like incredibly shallow thinking that would include numerous activities. I know the Nobel doesn't mean much these days, but come on. If this guy is the smartest mind in economics today, we're fucked.
> People were talking about this weeks ago on the Apple Forums, as a "neat trick"

Aren't Apple forums mostly meant as self-help forums, with minimal monitoring by Apple?

It looks like one person posted it two weeks ago, not as a bug or security problem but as a solution to the problem that the original poster had, not realizing it was a bug. People didn't seem to notice it and start talking about it there until yesterday.

I would guess that any developers at Apple that check the developer forums just look at the first post to see what problems people are reporting, and a few of the replies to see if others are seeing the problem and see what workarounds people have found.

In this particular thread that first post was in June, and by early July someone had posted a fix. Some people had trouble with that and someone posted a more detailed fix in the middle of October.

I doubt any developers would be still following that thread on November 13th, when the root bug was posted.

As far as moderators go, I'd expect that they just skim the posts to make sure they don't violate any major rules.
This is very timely, as today I was thinking of caving in and getting an Echo Dot so I can control my smart home devices by voice.

I would love an open-hardware microphone array that I could use with a Pi or something similar, to write my own Alexa. Not only would I love this, I would store all my commands and send them to Mozilla to help with their speech recognition models.

I don't want to be the guy who wishes someone else would do all the work and then give it away for free, so I'll do what I can to help (which is probably limited to writing a bunch of code and documentation on how people can set this up more easily). Congratulations and thanks to Mozilla for this.
Newtonian mechanics wasn't wrong, it wasn't right enough at certain scales - AFAIK, it correctly predicted the orbits of all of the planets except Mercury, whose proximity to the sun was close enough that relativity had to be taken into account to explain it.

However, flat Earthers aren't "wrong" in the same way that Newton was, they don't simply have an alternative model of reality which is useful in its own peculiar way. Newtonian mechanics and Einstein don't contradict each other, and one doesn't override the other. Flat Earthism, meanwhile, is like the crackpot who denies all this newfangled quantum timespace relativity mumbo jumbo and refuses to believe in anything but Newton, because Newton is simple and obvious. It doesn't refine and augment existing knowledge, it denies its validity altogether.

Thinking of the earth as being flat at human scale is simple and obvious. Thinking of the earth in its entirety as being flat is simple and obvious and wrong in ways that even the ancients could figure out. There's no domain in which that's useful.
> Its a bit surprising that I'm being downvoted on a tech forum for asserting that information doesn't have weight.

You are being downvoted for espousing an erroneous definition of the word "physical".
> On Nov 23, the staff members informed Apple about it.

For everyone kvetching yesterday about "responsible disclosure".
>it is really so easy, just become a founder.

you've missed the important point. It isn't for everybody. I specifically mentioned that it is already successful people with a lot of good connections. Thus such a startup is just the next step in the career progression. For a plain engineer, like me for example, who can't make even a CTO/VP of engineering of a small company or a Director/division Chief Architect/etc. at a BigCo creating a startup would be exactly or even worse than described by grand-grand-parent. There is a reason that early stage VCs, for example YC, invest in people, not ideas/business. One of the friends got invested with "just name the number" amount right on the spot the moment he mentioned that he got his own startup even without telling what his startup is intended to do (of course there were due diligence done by small people afterwards before things formalized on paper) Where is couple other friends, engineers more like me, who went through a very harsh interviews at those few VCs who agreed to listen to them and got, unsurprisingly, nothing, and still sitting as engineers.

>It sounds like you're complaining,

there is huge difference between recognizing reality and saying that the reality is unfair (which it just can't be by virtue of being the reality)
This is another great indicator. The skeptic would suggest it’s just a derivative of the price, but I think the simple fact that Bitcoin is exposed to more people indicates it has more utility so I’m good with this indicator.
For what reason do you think a stock exchange would want to add artificial delay to Bitcoin deposits?

I could see holding a portion as 'pending' until many confirmations, or perhaps until the Bitcoin can be liquidated on the market, but both of those seem like they could still resolve an order of magnitude faster than the 'competition'.
>costs for those drivers very expensive because they're driving among automated vehicles which increases consequences of bad driving.

Or very cheap because the people who self select to drive will be the people who care enough about driving to not do things like text and drive and when they do slip up the machines around them will prevent it from causing problems.

>shunned as a socially unacceptable risk like smoking.

Among the middle and upper class in Bubble Valley maybe. Everywhere else it's more of a "you do you" thing.
What text were you reading from a satellite?
Feinstein is one outstanding oligarch.
It's unfortunate that Stiglitz made such a lazy proclamation. First of all, BTC can be used with sufficient anonymity as to frustrate any meaningful enforcement mechanisms. But if we stipulate the notion of a successful prohibition of BTC, what about all the other cryptocurrencies out there? Should we ban them, too? If so, it seems to me that we'd have to ban most of technologies that underpin the modern internet.
That’s an exceptional bet. Would you suggest that someone who took the ‘yes’ side of that bet was ignorant simply for being on that side?
can we also outlaw dollars since basically a huge chunk of them go to bombing third world countries?
The issue for me is we don't have funding, so just pay coming out of savings until we make money.

The cheapest seems to be more than $40, but based on the description its only allocated $5 to $10 worth of computing. I am using Linode or Digital Ocean pricing for that, but even with Amazon's inflated EC2 pricing it's probably like $25 max.

So I can't justify paying $40 per month when I can get the same horsepower for $10 or $20. I can set up an open source system for monitoring and containers restart automatically.

For people that have $200,000 burning a hole in their pocket, it may be a different story.
Making it illegal didn't make people not have it, just like the gold executive order, so that hasn't proven your case. Making the government cease to exist and therefore ceasing to be redeemable only proves my case.
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There has been a wave of minor cryptos in 2012-2013 experimenting alternative economic models such as long tail emission, stable inflation, unlimited issue tied to difficilty, demurrage, etc. Most perished during the last major market crash and the only old school alts that survived are Dogecoin (2% fixed inflation p.a.) and Litecoin (almost 1:1 copy of bitcoin).
Yeah, 'myopic' or 'out of touch' would probably have been more accurate adjectives.
the good news is that when network neutrality ends, we'll go back do downloading and storing our data instead of renting it from service providers.
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The trick here is that the whale does sell but profits in Fiat. Then using those profits you can buy the now cheaper Bitcoin. Wash, rinse, repeat.
That’s just the price argument rephrased. If the price tanks tomorrow this utility is removed.
The US economy expanded from subsistence farming in 1800 to superpower in 1914 conclusively shows that fiat money is not a requirement for that.

What fiat money is good for is so the government can spend whatever it wants to without needing to tax it or balance its books. Fiat money makes financing of wars possible, for example.

The notion that fiat money makes for stable financial markets is obviously false, although it is persistent.