skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Elaine Herzberg was struck while walking her bike across the street somewhere in this area

How do I know this graphic isn't entirely speculative?
My guess is that they won't release video footage out of respect for the victim and her family. That's mostly an excuse on their part though.
It's probably just PR.
> I didn't realize that people with criminal records like this could become Uber drivers.

In a civilized society people should be able to get jobs when they get out of prison. It's called "time served" for a reason. Everything other is just paving the path to recidivism - when people can't make a living because no one will hire ex-cons, they don't have any other way of literally staying alive than living as hobos or breaking the law.

The attitude in your comment is imho perfectly representing why the US has such problems with career criminals.

The only class of people where even after time served there should be safeguards are when there's a psychological reason that actually makes people dangerous, like pedophilia.
> Is that a question or a statement?

Which sentence, the one with the question mark at the end or the other one? The answer is different for each, and which is which should be obvious.
Sure, I agree with everything in your comment.

I do think that technology like this will be less and less corruptible over time though - I am fairly optimistic about this use case for cameras (but also have concerns about how unpleasant jobs like teaching and policing could become if people are monitored in an authoritarian way).

In terms of the system being fundamentally broken, my view is that 'ripping it out and starting again' is just not viable (esp with the US having essentially a 2 party system) - Incremental change such as introducing body cams, reducing its corruptibility, and general 'liberal' policy introduction over time is the only feasible path if relying on traditional government.

This incremental change, however, is far too slow, which is why I support Ethical Capitalism to provide an alternative path, guided by 'enlightened' public demand. Which brings its own problems and exploitable weaknesses of course.

>How often do you see headlines where the police commit outrageous atrocities and get a slap on the wrist?

I am fairly optimistic too in this regard - People are slowly wising up to Police perjury and other indiscretions, and it is more at the forefront of people's minds than ever before. I have no justification for this optimism in this conversation though unfortunately, as it is such a large nuanced shift to examine.
Math works so well because we consistently abandon any math that doesn't work well.
Wow, tough crowd. Is this on? `tap`, `tap`, `tap`
Threema doesn't have forward secrecy on the message encryption layer, but it does on the network transport protocol layer.
Such devices exist and they are LED lights that pedestrians and bicyclists already use.
But why is accurate classification needed, when the overriding decision is about how the car should react now that an unidentified, moving object is moving directly into the car's path? Even if someone were riding at an angle, it's still in a direction that may intersect with the car's path.
Perhaps we're using the term "asset" differently.

As I'm using it, it could be a wide range of intentions, including:
* a willing ideological traitor,
* a paid agent,
* a double agent,
* a person cooperating semi-willingly to get out of a jam,
* a compromised person unwillingly cooperating,
* a dupe or 'useful idiot".

The only thing in common is that they have people on the other side successfully working to make some of their actions work for that side and not ours.

I do not believe that we'll ever have specific detailed classified evidence revealed to us, at least withing the next 75 years. However, we can take a clue from the people inside the intelligence agencies who have seen the evidence, and they unanimously classify Snowdon as a full-on traitor.

I;m not sure I go that far, but he's at least a step above useful idiot. This can be judged just by Snowdon's own a public activity since his taking up residence in Russia (Manning, and Reality Winner, OTOH, are probably mere dupes).

edit: & thanks for the tips.
I wonder if test drivers should also be video monitored to record their alertness? It's quite a responsibility.
Sounds possible - but what about faked video that looks real?

That is - deep learning NN generated aerial drone footage (or altered footage) - could certainly be done...

I'm not sure where this ends...
Yeah, but even a simple survey would at least start to unravel this. "Did you either fail to vote or change your vote based upon paid advertising you saw on Facebook?" would at least be a good start. Even anecdotal stories of people being swayed by a paid Facebook ad would be a start. I haven't seen a single one, and I've looked.
Facebook’s path into the future (2016)
I have had vehicles blow by me on a bicycle at 50 mph, on fairly narrow county roads.
> And yet the police were so quick to say that camera footage indicates that Uber was likely not at fault.

I was surprised at that -- it doesn't seem to me that the police would have the technical knowledge of Uber's hardware and algorithms to categorically state that, let alone so quickly.
My experience is the same with Common Lisp: it is very strongly typed, so type mismatches never pass without an explicit error.
The woman who was hit ran across the road. It's easy to be safe: don't do that.
'summoned' ◔_◔

For a moment, I feared we were treading the same path beaten by the US Congress with parliamentary extra-territorial over-reach, but it turns out it's just the BBC using the wrong words; the chairman of the select committee has merely requested that he give evidence before the committee: https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/cultu...
My comment was largely about a situation where there there is no ethical choice involved.

For example: something comes in front of a car and a decision needs to be made, whether to turn left into the opposite lane, or whether that is dangerous and only brakes should be applied. Humans have a hard time making this decision, because it's hard to asses situation quickly.

The decision to only apply brakes (a common advice to people) - is only safe in the sense that in most cases it will be the safe thing. There will be cases where it will not be safe - but they will be in minority.

A machine will be better equipped at assessing whether driving onto the opposite lane is dangerous in that specific situation. If it is not dangerous for anyone - the machine will be expected to do that, instead of applying brakes, because in that specific situation it will be the safest thing.

The choice here is not an ethical one, it's purely computational one. There are situations where there is no one in the opposite lane, and it is simply safe to turn there. But humans are generally not trusted with being able to make that choice - because of poor computational ability (in such restricted timeframes).

Of course there are ethical considerations for other situations.
> This is about as feasible as putting smart chips in all roads so that cars know where the lanes are.

Lanes are marked, usually. So why not embed something like an UV/IR-only color pigment in the lanes? Invisible so it doesn't affect human drivers but can easily be picked up by cameras.
Self-driving car companies have no intention of building an average system.
You can analyse the traffic data being sent by the App, also there are third party Apps that work on the WhatsApp network.
The whole point of using the data like this is to change people's opinion without them knowing why, so I doubt anyone can answer a survey like this accurately.
It will work if you set the /etc/hosts inside the VM.
> According to the UK DOT the estimated pedestrian accident survival rate is 55% at 30mph and just 5% at 40mph (due to kinetic energy rather than reaction times) so 3mph in this range is not exactly an insignificant difference.

You'd have that range whether people went at the speed limit, above the speed limit, or below the speed limit. As long as speed limits are made with actual speeds taken into account (they are) that argument is irrelevant to whether you should speed. It just means that if you really want to be safe to hit someone you shouldn't go above 25mph, no matter what the speed limit is.

> The strangest thing about watching this story is that people who are apparently ignorant of this still feel sufficiently certain of the relative unimportance of speed differences in this range to sneer at other people for commenting on it.

The speed limit here was at least 40, wasn't it? Your own numbers say that the differences are unimportant above 40.
No more or less a breach than any social engineering attack. No more or less than Chelsea Manning for that matter. "Our servers weren't compromised" is totally irrelevant.

Did the sensitive data end up someplace it shouldn't? Yes? Then your data security was breached. The end.

But hey let's argue over the technical definition of breach rather than how evil facebook are and how much power they have - both of which are vastly more interesting to consider. I'd like to see some support of the not very, not much school of thought.
WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
> Further, this was NOT about providing ads, instead the data personal information was shared with a third party without this being explicitly consented to. People have been profiled without this been explicit, further no consent was given.

Is it personal information? AFAIK the facebook T&C states that as soon as you put information into facebook it is their data. You're giving something away freely an then complaining about how the recipient uses it.

Facebook may have broken some laws and they are definitely a scummy company, but the onus is still on people not to give away their private data.
Golden West College: Campus Cops Crack Down on Questions about Islam
Original: "investigating and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook".

Final: "policing its own platform"

Note that the reference to disagreement about disclosing the information was removed. This seems like a significant change.
True for federal loans, but Bush also made private student debt difficult to discharge during a bankruptcy.
Please don't assume that the problems that are specific to Javascript also happens with other dynamically typed languages.
You’re contradicting yourself - they cannot simultaneously shift all profits to Ireland and to a non-Irish head office. They split the profits on their international sales channeled through Ireland between both. The non-Irish profits are taxable by the US which is why the US government is fighting the EU over this as they rightly (in my opinion) see it as a money grab.
Whats wrong with Skype?
> if you declare bankruptcy to evict student loans, you are ineligible for retirement account contributions like IRA and 401ks for the 7-10 year window.

That's something that a large percentage of people do anyway. What a strange and poorly-thought-out suggestion.
They had gotten kinda back into the parts business within the last ~5 years or so? At least the ones near me did. They were starting to embrace the maker movement, and was at least dedicating some space to them.
I don't think any founder that wants to fix a problem is going to talk about and saying 'making a clone'.

I agree with 90% with you, but a founder will never say the word 'clone' in a conversation with a candidate or VC.
If you could buy directly ala Instagram shop button but for the web, you could have a chance. E-commerce can help a lot to bring people to your platform.
But Pinterest is already doing Buyable Pins
This is a really great point. I wonder if at some point self driving cars will be taught with these regional anomalies in mind. And will they be activated/changed depending on where the car is shipped/activated (Asia vs. America)?
Ignoring scale of emotional reaction here for a moment, do you believe that the actual on-the-ground outcomes of this will be greater or lesser in scope than the Snowden files? I feel like there was a lot of bluster about the government tracking private citizens illegally but nothing really happened. Conversely, this time the wrong political candidate won using social media data, and now we might get some valuable privacy regulation.

The best outcome would be privacy from both private and government, but if I had to choose I'd pick privacy from government. It appears I'm either in the significant minority or it's just easier to kick private corporations than it is to kick the government.
What exactly is the point of reposting yesterday's unsubstantiated press release? The video can't "show" anything if the video is unavailable!

flagged.
I am not sure if the Bay Area is that (or any) better, food-wise, than Chicago, and I've tried most of the well-rated places in both... Matter of taste, of course.

For the difference in cost of living, I probably could fly myself from Chicago to Tahoe every week and still come out ahead. And to each his own, but I like looking in the window and knowing what season it is.

I'm not really a midwestern local, but of all the places I lived or visited in the US, I would certainly pick Chicago well ahead of Bay Area. It might be more "interesting" professionally (although I'd rather work on something actually useful, not the next Juicero or Theranos), but having some money left is pretty sweet, too.
block all of Google's IP addresses: https://support.google.com/a/answer/60764?hl=en (note: your internet (the web) will stop working properly if you do block all of those IPs, which is a big problem)
You forgot that Ek = 0.5 * m * v²
So it is "more dangerous" to be 3 MPH above the speed limit when the speed limit is higher.
>> it caused human drivers to try and go around

Nope, drivers made that decision on their own.
They were not forced into it.
A blacklist approach to this is for sure a cat and mouse game. A better approach is to incrementally whitelist the domains you trust.
Or, for a more concrete American example:

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-toyota-president-ag...
> name another time you read so much commentary about the details that caused a car crash?

Doesn't this happen every time a Tesla is involved, too? I think this might be so high-profile because it's the first automated vehicle incident (that I'm aware of) that involves a pedestrian.

I know that one of the Tesla incidents resulted in the driver's death, but that was clearly user error. IIRC Tesla was very quick to release the data on the incident as well, so it was pretty clear versus this situation, which is mostly people guessing.
The board of directors? The other C-levels. What does it matter. Does anyone know if company culture wants him gone?
From the article:

“It’s possible that Uber’s automated driving system did not detect the pedestrian, did not classify her as a pedestrian, or did not predict her departure from the median,” Smith said in an email. “I don’t know whether these steps occurred too late to prevent or lessen the collision or whether they never occurred at all, but the lack of braking or swerving whatsoever is alarming and suggests that the system never anticipated the collision.”
I fall more into the "AZ wants the SDC companies in state and having a death due to a SDC would hamper that with the public" camp. Better to find the SDC not at fault and save face.
Aye, that it will
That was easy to see coming... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620315
Yeah no. If the stores were worth keeping open without the debt, then the bankruptcy court would keep them open. They lost money in each of the last 4 years, without as much of a debt load maybe they'd have broken even or a small profit, but not enough to justify the existence of the company.
I mean... the police just make shit up all the time. And Arizona was very happy to attract Uber with their regulation-free state law.

The fact that they came out with a statement instead of saying "we don't comment on ongoing investigations" makes it even more shady.
This perhaps?
https://tettra.co/
Deep fakes take time. No one could possibly know that an incident is about to occur, so I wouldn't worry about that.

Also if a police department wanted to undertake a full on conspiracy to fabricate evidence, their will be so many cameras from so many angles, that there lies would quickly be outed.
zero knowledge proofs fail to address this concern:

> all you have to do is to set up a fake website advertising "Look up if your vote is counted as it should be", let people type in their credentials, and you now know exactly how millions of people have voted.

this is a social engineering problem, not a cryptography problem. said social engineering would be much harder to implement with paper ballots than a system that's available over the internet.

further, your reply does not address this concern:

> That you cannot "look up your vote" later is not a bug: it's a feature.

i should not be able to verifiably let another party know how i voted. to use your own rhetorical device, i'd suggest you look up vote selling and voter coercion.

>>>> Paper ballots with automated scanners is a solved problem. It works, it's cheap, and it's virtually tamper-proof. (Tampering with the result will require physical access by many people: if you allow that possibility you're basically conceding that you cannot trust the government to run the election properly, and using any technology won't save you.)

>>>> In other words, paper ballots is a boring, unsexy technology whose only benefit is that it works. No wonder people aren't excited.

> Blockchain is the only legitimate way to carry out voting, imo.

you'll have to forgive me if i'm still unconvinced.
One minor feature I miss from noscript is that (unless I've missed a setting) umatrix can't block site scripts but allow bookmarklets. Though with the new extension API, I don't know if it's possible at all or not.
We are already seeing that happen with HNA.
Don't even need to highlight the words. Just hit the end-key and then press Ctrl+Backspace three times.

I know. It was just an example to illustrate the sort of syntax that you'll find more of.

If I myself actually properly knew Vim, I would have given you an example that by itself is most definitely quicker than normal keybindings, too. But I figured, if you actually care to understand, you'll see that it's just an example, if you don't, then you won't.

All I know, is that you can find videos of people using Vim well and they're most definitely faster than anyone I've ever seen with a normal text editor.
There's at least two other trends that are, IMO, more to blame. SUVs in general for one, and the proliferation of particular mixed-use road antipattern.

SUVs is an easy one. When an SUV hits a bicyclist, motorcyclist, or pedestrian, the unfortunate person tends to go through rather than the over they'd be subjected to by a sedan. Motorcycle accident stats bear this out - the overall accident rate has gone down as people have started riding safer, but the fatality rate has gone up as SUVs have taken over market share.

The roads this is a bit more complicated, but basically roads need to either be slow enough to safely share space (25mph or below), separated out so that only cars can use it (freeways), or kill an alarming number of pedestrians and bicyclists. Four lanes and a 35 MPH speed limit with infrequent crossings is pretty much going to have a body count.

I'm not trying to excuse Uber here, just trying to maybe convince urban planners to stop building things that convince people to try to cross four lanes of traffic going 35 MPH.
The word you're looking for is "vigilant". "Vigilante" means "a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate".
Perhaps if there were two similar candidates, this would be true. However, that wasn't the case here. These candidates and their supporters were polar opposites. If they were swayed at all, it wouldn't have been through subtlety. The stories would be "I was going to vote for Hillary, but then I saw [X] on Facebook and was so horrified that I decided to [not vote at all or vote for Trump]".
That's why people are calling for a guild. A way so that developers can push back against this, and not have to worry about being fired.
Chatkit: Hosted API for Building Impressive Real-Time Chat Features
Tenures track professors are very easy to cut loose since they don’t have tenure yet...
If the reported location of not-Seattle is correct, then 38 in a 35 isn't speeding.

(disclaimer: I don't want to be defending Uber, I just don't see the need for the red herring)
We're implementing the gdpr. It comes into force at the end of may, before we leave the EU. Our information commissioner is very keen on the legislation.
Isn't this normal and the reason for the rise of indie games?

People want do make games, but they don't want to be crunched into oblivion, so they leave theae studios, go indie and do their own stuff...
Or not necessarily pragmatism, but a shift in focus from overbearing justice (commonly seen as retribution and punishment, or more generally some kind of revenge) to rehabilitation and giving people the resources they need to get out of crime, rather than ostracizing them or putting them to manual labour for pennies an hour. In this sense Promise is being pragmatic because it can't transform the American attitude to crime all by itself (the punishment of which doubles up as a profit motive for the prison industry), but it can attempt to make one aspect of it less shitty. However, it is miles away from ideal.

Coming from a European perspective I find it utterly perplexing that a society would not only accept high rates of incarceration but also support venture capital to optimize that status quo. Because that's what is being offered - making it affordable for poor people to go into custody, as opposed to lobbying against private prisons and extreme sentences for trivial crimes, and disentangling this horrific 'tough on crime' narrative that has taken hold over the past decades. How on earth is it positive to see an opportunity for profit in all the people being locked up before trial and to what end will that investment be pursued?

It's fascinating that many viewpoints from the US are so exceptional in their notion that they completely ignore how systems in other countries tackle the problem without generating a criminal underclass.
Their pricing has monthly subscriptions, that’s not serverless. Serverless will cost nothing when idle, that’s the whole idea.
Personally, I think the interaction model is closer to Self than to Smalltalk. A walk-through of building a morphic app is here: https://lively-next.org/doc/todo-list-tutorial.html

Lively also got some influence from Emacs in terms of integrating tooling and support for remote development. One example, connecting to another webpage and modifying it via lively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbp30e_QYvY. Apart from JavaScript, it is easy to integrate other languages as well, e.g. you can connect to a running Python process via https://github.com/LivelyKernel/lively.py) and then use workspaces and file editors inside of Lively to modify and run Python code. This stuff is based on a generic RPC mechanism that connects Lively worlds and other runtimes: https://lively-web.org/users/robertkrahn/2015-06-12_l2l-map.....

cloxp is following more a traditional Smalltalk-model, the core component is a system browser for Clojure namespaces.
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Promised a Criminal Justice Revolution
Me, my partner, all my friends and my mom uses it. It is my main messaging app and has been since the TextSecure times.
I appreciate OpenBSD. Among other things their focus on making APIs that are impossible to misuse and hacking down the scope of a problem to the bone result in a lot of interesting products. Basically if you have to consult anything beyond the man page for their stuff they've failed. Given those restrictions they tackle big problems with good results.