skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we really need is for all of the logs from a company like Uber or Google to get streamed to some third party.

All of the logs are encrypted (with different keys), and only when an issue occurs, the company who owns the data gives the key for that particular car at that particular hour for decryption. Basically a data-escrow.

This way we know the logs are not being tampered with, and we keep the data hidden from the third party.
> I specifically mention that it's not a great idea. It's a code smell. Instead, interfaces should be defined at point-of-use.

You still have not said WHY it's not a great idea, or what the benefits of defining the interfaces at point-of-use are.
This is common. Either it’s a back old listing or a failing SOE that is looking to exit the steel industry with some cheap capital.
Do you have any evidence to show in Jurisdictions where GPS is added as a condition to pretrial release that: a. Cost of bond went down; b. More defendants were granted release; or c. Less defendants violated conditions of bond?

It’s pretty common to have private contractors providing pre-trail release and probation services (at least in Florida) and I think you will find the opposite.

Take your contract for GPS Tracking, that won’t help anyone get bond who isn’t entitled to bond, and it won’t make bond cheaper for those that can’t afford it. GPS Tracking is just an added expense, it’s a condition of Pretorial release that: a) makes the contractors money and b) results in revocation of bond for violations of Pretrial/probation/parole conditions.

In my experience all these private contractors have exclusive contracts and are incentivized for people to violate (leading to charges, additional penalties, costs, etc...), for example:

-traffic schools

-DUI schools/programs

-DUI boots for cars

-DUI ignition breathalyzers

-drug testing facilities

-drug courts/treatment facilities

Ive seen more than a few HN discussions on the issues with privatized prisons. Same with the types of contracts/services I listed above, they ensure all their privatized services are added as conditions of release to the detriment of defendants, including financial burden and likelihood of violations so they end up right back where they started.
Which is curious since a LOT of the technology they develop is done under gigantic government contracts.

Apparently few people remember back in the 80's when the biggest SV employer was Lockheed Missiles and Space who developed weapons for the DOD.

More recently you can point fingers at the complacency of Facebook, Google and Yahoo who were willing participants in the PRISM scandal.
Redditor gives detailed breakdown of how Zuckerberg is linked to the olig
Towards the end, this article has a bunch of random suggestions you could try. I will caution readers that randomly trying stuff is about the worst way to do this.

If you want to self experiment, at a minimum, start a food diary. Record what you eat, when you eat it and track any health metrics you hope to change, whether sleep or something else. Establish a baseline for your current normal. Then try no more than one new thing every week or two to establish whether it does anything and, if so, what effect it seems to have.

Supplements are easier to work with at the start because it is the best way to try to isolate a factor. Dietary changes are much harder to understand because they always involve at least two changes: the new food you are adding and the discontinuation of whatever you used to eat. This always leaves the question "Is the new food helping? Or is the effect from removing the old food?"

That's before getting into the issue that most things you eat are complicated products containing multiple ingredients.
Users gave the app permission. The app also harvested the data of their Facebook Friends, who hadn't given permission.
I'm not sure, I guess it depends on the person. For me 10mg is enough to give me a pretty good buzz and be satisfied with watching anime for the night. 20-25mg and I'm time traveling. I wouldn't drive on either amount. 5mg is probably _okay_ but still I'd rather just take a cab/lyft/uber/transit.

I think if they could do three things (other than be in my jurisdiction which is currently complicated by laws) I would be an avid customer:

1) Make it taste pretty good with food

2) Make it fizzy

3) Make it not terrible for you (vs soda, juice, alcohol) so you could have a couple at the end of the day / with dinner to de-stress.
Just about a week ago the Raspberry Pi foundation released an updated Pi 3 B+ (see this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582878).

This update was an incremental release and was a disappointment for some who hoped for more memory, some eMMC, faster USB and so on. These are all high cost options and the Foundations goals are really education at lowest possible cost - something which they have been very successful at.

This new carrier board for the Raspberry Pi 3 compute module attempts to satisfy more demanding users as well as the industrial market.

Among quite a few other features this board has eMMC, a RTC and a separate bluetooth micro controller for use in low power situations.

All in all a very interesting little board. I think it will be very popular for people looking for industrial solutions.
If Google didn't want the two connected in peoples' minds then Google should not have named the two so similar.

Indeed, I cannot fathom an initiative which would not tie directly into Google News, as yet another data point to profile you (the product).
Am I supposed to get in a car to cross the street?
Keep reading:

> Mr. Stamos would be the first high-ranking employee to leave Facebook since controversy over disinformation on its site. Company leaders — including Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, and Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer — have struggled to address a growing set of problems, including Russian interference on the platform, the rise of false news and the disclosure over the weekend that 50 million of its user profiles had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company.

Sandberg's name, and the inability to address growing problems "including Russian interference", are all in the same sentence. If Sandberg called in a favor for this, it was a pretty weak-ass favor. I don't think it matches the OP's assessment that Sandberg re: Russia was "wiped clean off the ether".

In fact, it seems the OP itself requires a correction, because it made the same mistake you did:

> Now, Sandberg’s name and the story’s only reference to her alleged role in frustrating Stamos’ attempts to highlight and root out Russian troll influence on the platform are gone because someone at the New York Times replaced the entire sentence.

Again, people can argue that maybe Sandberg asked NYT to move the reference to later in the story. But I mean, there's still the issue of why Sandberg would not pressure NYT to hold off on this story which is extremely damaging to FB as a whole.
It's almost as if the journalism is decoupled from the commercial arm.
Yeah, actually, I do that all the time. Regex's are awesome, and so is spamassasin. There are plenty of other "rule-based" type tools out there too.

What is the problem with an email being public? I don't think I understand what you mean.
Wait wait.. Isn't it "Treat others how you want to be treated"? Isn't what your suggestion essentially "an eye for an eye"?
It's incredibly rare that warrants are issued at all; since the late 18th century, it's a Speaker's Warrant that's used (and enforced by the Serjeant-at-Arms of the House; prior to that no warrant was needed at all). They are formally issued by the House, and not Parliament as a whole.

Non-subjects can be compelled, most recently Rupert Murdoch in 2011 (wrt the News International wiretapping scandal), which along with his son James was AFAIK the last time a Speaker's Warrant to summon witnesses was issued.
Well, if you saw that video and it really did show a < 1 second time between the pedestrian becoming visible and being hit, then the autonomous systems don't matter at all. That accident is physically impossible to prevent in that car.

So whether or not the police understand self-driving systems is not relevant to the fundamental physics problem. The key question is how long was the ped visible.
You could add the one thing I do: post links and comments warning everyone on FB how bad it is. It's the people who live on FB who most need to get these messages.
Wtf is a "protected class" and why is she dark skinned?
I haven't read the words "defensive driving" in any of the articles about this incident.
Downvote the above hard to confront your withrdawal symptoms then make your posts with your contact details announcing you are going to leave facebook, a few reminders then do it.

Life is better without them. They really haven't got you, you can break free just by deciding to do it.

(Apologies for mentioning up/down voting)
As soon as you leave the UK the BBC advertises extensively, including on their website. If you are a UK national try visiting bbc.co.uk next time you are abroad, you may be in for a surprise.
My problem with Pi Hole is that I'd rather have it return NXDOMAIN, instead of redirecting to some other IP.
We only have the word of the Arizona police on the veracity of the headline. Not exactly a stellar source.
> With Cambridge Analytica, the customer data wasn't used by any government, but by a political party.

It was used by a political campaign; that it was not used by a government is...less clear. The Trump-Mercer-CA-Lukhoil-Putin connections are intriguing, and part of the reason this is getting so much media attention with the ongoing Mueller investigation.
Hah, that’d be ironic – the UK is of course still a full member of the EU but for them to push any agenda but brexit can’t very well be good for negotiations, nor the public perception of it all, can it?
The post I was commenting on claimed similar actions were, or would have been lauded if carried out by Democrats. I simply posted an article critical of similar moves.
It's warm HN bottled, not on tap.
For what value of “soon after” is very expensive automation going to reach Africa, India, and other places in numbers sufficient to put a dent in those fatalities? The slow march of other tech, safety included, suggests decades. Meanwhile the safety gains of automation are so far hypothetical, amd until they’re well demonstrated, potentially a distant pipe dream. Nothing about ML/AI today suggests a near-future of ultra-safe cars.
I doubt that this is legit story. No links, nothing to back-up the claims, no response to previous request of links.
> I fully admit to not being an expert on voting and don't know about any reforms taking place. I was simply stating that a blockchain solution might be better than just casting a plain paper ballot.

I am being dead serious and I'm not trying to antagonize you here: the fact that you responded and seemed to have a firm opinion on an area you admit you aren't well versed in... well that to me is a huge problem with the way democracy works. It's a trait that we complain about when non-nerd voters vote in uninformed ways on technology and science issues. Blockchain isn't going to solve that.

Better educated voters will do a lot more to improve democracy than blockchain will.

We can't even get reasonable technology choices for the evoting approaches we've tried (we can't even get vendor transparency), and that's not for lack of good proposals for evoting systems over the years. It's because the people choosing the technology don't understand it super well, and are often in the pockets of the vendors.

In practice, it feels like paper ballots are a much better solution than most of the evoting systems we use in the real world currently, and paper ballots certainly feel better to me than any of the completely nebulous "but what about blockchain?" proposals here and elsewhere.

to anyone still harping on blockchain, can you give a detailed description of a realistic threat model where it performs better than paper ballots.

>>> I still think it's worth investigating if this is more secure than plain old paper ballots.

I would agree with that general sentiment, but the overwhelming evidence right now points to "no", IMO.

i will also say, the thing that you're doing that i'm complaining about is a thing that programmers do a lot, and is a thing that i'm plenty guilty of myself (thinking everything is more solvable than it is because you can envision rough pseudocode or systems diagrams for it in your head). this is a thing i'm really trying to get better about not doing.
It's running fine for me on a Pi Zero W. There's honestly like no slowdown at all
seems like we could give him the benefit of the doubt in this case, no?
The government doesn't have to resort to conspiracies to get your personal data from Facebook, if it wants it, it can get it. We live in the age of PRISM (in which Facebook is a participant,) secret orders, and NSA bulk surveillance. They could literally just build or hack an app that uses Facebook's API, apparently, or buy something from the black market, or in the narrow case get a warrant.

Not to mention... I don't think this would actually give anyone "Legal authority to examine all that juicy personal data Facebook holds." I don't think "legal authority" actually works that way, but IANAL.
So your farmer understands this real world problem really well. And now he wants to automate a solution to it. And to do that he needs... all that stuff that the SV guys know. And they know that stuff really well, better than anyone else. But they don’t know the first thing about farming. Which leads me back to my original post.
Show HN: Dummy Link – The SMARTEST Hyperlink Placeholder You'll Ever Use
Zuckerberg has sold more FB stock in the last 90 days than any insider
It's referred to in the motorcycle community as 'Spidey Sense' - the way your subconscious picks up dangerous situations before you consciously become aware of them, giving you a chance to slow down and become more vigilant.
The benefits of defining interfaces at point of use is decoupling of dependencies.

Imagine you have two packages: A and B. A defines interface Fooer and struct FooThing. Package B only requires anything that can call Foo(). But because the interface is defined at A, now B is forever tied to A. When you change something in A, you have to worry if it changes something in B as well.

If instead the interface Fooer is defined in B, package A can change as much as it likes without B needing to change.
TL;DR: I needed an easy way to test referral information for my side-projects.

When I'm developing my side-projects I am always in need of placeholder data (images, avatars, text, etc) but when it came to hyperlinks, I always defaulted to using a hashtag ("#").

Why? Because it was the shortest and simplest value for me to enter into the HREF.

So for years I've been using # as my placeholder hyperlink in all my side-projects but then had an "aha moment" when I started working on a project that I needed to test referral information.

The project needed to detect both referral-in-and-out information which isn't a huge coding lift but it does get somewhat messy with all the echo, print, etc statements for testing. This was a pain point I needed to solve.

Enter DummyLink.xyz.

In its simplest form, Dummy Link allows you to create a page on our website that will display referral and browser information for links clicking in AND create a clickable link out to the URL so you can test referral information on your server.

Wow ... that's a mouthful to even type!
I hadn't realised tetra was considered outdated, I believe Ireland only moved to it for certain emergency services over the last few years.
Well said! I'm immediately reminded of the paradox of the 4th down punt in American Football. Put simply, head coaches choose to punt far more often than they statistically should; but, they do so anyway because it ensures they won't take the blame for the "unorthodox" decision.

In this case, it's management giving the impression that they are "doing something." We see the same thing with, "can we add more developers to speed this up?" The answer is almost universally "no" and, presumably, any manager in the modern era should have read (or at least be familiar with) the over 40 year-old book, "The Mythical Man Month." But, from a senior management position, there aren't many levers to pull--and when the heat is on, they have to be seen to "do something."

One interesting source on the topic (there are many others):

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/upshot/4th-down-when-to-g...
Well that's the trick isn't it?: "plead guilty to Possession or we charge you with Attempted Murder"
According to the HISTORY section at the bottom of the OpenBSD man page for unlink() , it first appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. [1]

FWIW, all OpenBSD man pages have a history section at the bottom that notes when the command first appeared.

[1] https://man.openbsd.org/unlink
I think that's a fair question, and that includes the text that says "Body seen in this area". I had tweeted at the author about it but hadn't gotten a reply (note: this may be because they don't see/reply to tweets from nobodies like me).

The distances, as depicted, are a little strange. If Uber AV hit the victim at 40mph, you would expect her body to be seen farther away from where it says "Body seen in this area".

It is incontestable that the Uber hit her on its right-front side. Here's a clear picture recently tweeted by NTSB: https://twitter.com/NTSB_Newsroom/status/976215176323194880
I'm a dreamer, but I'm dreaming self driving cars or even just sensors on normal cars are able to record the data and make this kind of thing indisputable.

Then maybe we'll have corporate pressure aligned with social pressure to change the laws and move traffic patterns beyond what random luck has 'evolved' to safe and sensible defaults.
>When all police are held more accountable in this way, are your grievances eased at all?

No, because then they pull this nonsense[1]. They are an institution historically grounded in anti-labor terrorism and slave catching, crafted entirely to elevate the security of private property above all other societal concerns.

>(Is Sessions a White Supremacist, or protectionist and somewhere on the nationalistic scale?

You should reconsider your hesitance here. Intellectuals need to stop tapdancing around the issue of white supremacy, and call a spade a spade. He prosecuted a group of people that were helping African-Americans register to vote. He's pushed back time and time again against sentencing reform that would treat people more equally under the law.[2] Calling his actions "protectionist" or "nationalist" is explicitly excluding black citizens from The Nation in question. By attempting to misdirect and misattribute these actions you are complicit in the practices that sustain the root from which his hateful policies grow.

1. http://fortune.com/2018/03/19/uber-self-driving-car-crash/

2. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/can-a-new-cri...
I didn't make claims nor did anyone else. There's only facts that he's been selling stock.
At the time, there were a lot of voices pushing the idea that public-private partnerships in the Japanese MITI vein were the future. Economists like Lester Thurow vehemently argued that the US wasn't doing nearly enough in this vein and was going to lose out to Japan as a result.

The history of AI research is sort of messy but around the end of the 1980s you were entering one of the AI winters. As you say, a lot of money had been pumped into expert systems without a lot of commercial success (and some high-profile failures). The Lisp machine market was collapsing. It probably didn't help that a lot of the big computer companies at the time (the Route 128 minicomputer makers) were collectively struggling.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
Seems to me like there's a lot of people lying between "Can't afford $30 phone" and "Can't afford $5,000 bail".
Swift: What about garbage collection? (2016)
I wonder how Facebook devs feel when they read such posts.
Do they feel rejected ? shameful ?
Does their salary really outweigh this collective disapproval
of their peers ?
Most companies fire about 2%-4% of their work force a year for cause. Most police departments don't.
This will only protect you while your on your own network. A lot of the juciest data is about your public location, for that you need something device/browser specific.
It doesn't matter what facebook's terms say. It matters what the law of the land says.
Yes it is, I added a correction to my comment.

But that doesn't change the argument. The US wants to be treated as equals with China. Not like a sucker being tricked by a hustler, but as equals.

The only thing we control is our own actions. So to make our selves equal with China, why not make our deals with China based on China's rules?
...and here come the lawyer vultures (full disclosure, I'm a lawyer).
Cause most management still considers developers to be interchangeable.
Mediaeval helpdesk
But the system has the ability to detect whether an object is moving in parallel (i.e. within its own lane) vs. across lanes, right? That would seem to be fundamentally necessary in everyday conditions, e.g. day traffic in which cars are switching/merging lanes.

If the problem is that the system didn't detect the woman moving between lanes, then that seemingly contradicts the police statement that the victim moved quickly enough to surprise the AV and its driver.
Ultimately, we have to design systems for the humans that actually exist, not some hypothetical superhuman. If it's not safe for actual humans to use then it's not safe full stop. It's not like this is some new issue; it's one of the main reasons why experts have been pessimistic about the prospects of self-driving cars and why existing car companies have been reluctant to deploy heavy automation in the field.
I believe you that it was a failure, but that doesn't follow from the minimum price dropping. Perhaps as they gained confidence in the system, they allowed smaller buys with smaller prices (but still just as profitable).
This is perhaps the single biggest thorn in my sister-in-law's life. She is a public defender in Marin County.

I feel if we could make the number of times an officer was found to testify to something that was shown to be a lie, was submittable as evidence in rebuttal to all of their testimony, it would quickly make bad officers unable to participate in the justice system.

I would hope that an officer that cannot make arrests because their testimony will always be stained in court will find themselves out of a job.
No he is not contradicting himself, and yes they can do both of those and spirit away the entirety of their EU profits into a caribbean island with minimal taxation. Read up on the double irish dutch sandwich tax strategy.
[amount of data collected from phones]=[amount of data collected from desktops]^[some exponent]
I don't think I understand that response. If a project is forked that could very well be someone deciding to base their work on another's work without regard to the parent code editor's attitude. I could make my own GNU Emacs fork, for instance, just because I wanted to. I don't have to wait for someone to "step down as maintainer" nor do I have to wait for a project to appear to be unmaintained. I can compete against GNU Emacs by building my variant on the same code. Anyone can choose from the published forks and there is no need for the one maintainer per project approach your comment suggests (nor does one maintainer per project exist).

I don't share that objection to forks; I don't find forks to be a problem. One can't do anything to change in the free software world, nor would I want it to change because changing that would mean losing the software freedom I value.