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Law abiding to not law abiding if new law / repeal of amendment happens, and they gave an example of a relavent instance.

Is your argument that you believe most/all law abiding citizens that currently own guns will willing destroy/turn over their guns of new laws pass against ownership?

Looking at reports on Australia it seems the effectiveness on turning in guns was anywhere from 40-80 percent. Effectiveness for prohibited guns was at 70%, so ~30% went from law abiding to not law abiding.

Page 11 of 36 is most of the stats for this: http://faculty.publicpolicy.umd.edu/sites/default/files/reut...
We know how to make insecticides that are very effective, almost impossible for the target to develop resistance to, and harmless to most other species.

But to do so, we have to seriously understand the target species, bit there aren't anywhere near enough entomologists for that.

Briefly, what you have to do is extensively study the life cycle of the target. Insects are the biological equivalent of simple robots that follow a bunch of pre-programmed behaviors triggered by their inputs. Hormones are associated with this various behaviors.

Get a few PhD entomologists who make it their career to understand a particular insect, and they can figure out what pre-programmed behavior that insect has, and what triggers them, and most importantly what hormones are involved with which trigger.

You can then make a pesticide based on one of that insect's hormones that will trigger the associated behavior.

For example, suppose you have an insect that in its juvenile form causes a lot of damage to crops. Later, in its adult form, when certain weather changes occur, the females look for a particular plant growing in a still pond, and lay their eggs on the leaves. The males, when that weather change occurs, also seek those plants in still ponds, and fertilize any eggs they find. The adults then die.

If you can find the hormone that triggers the "go lay/fertilize then die" behavior, then you maybe can make a pesticide with that which you can spray on the juveniles. It triggers the "reproduce and die" program, even though the juvenile females cannot yet pay eggs and the males cannot yet fertilize eggs. That doesn't matter. They are essentially biological automatons, and they are running that program now. They find the pond, find the plant, go through the motions, and die.

The cool thing about hormones is that the hormones for one species usually are highly specific to that species. The hormone based pesticide probably will not do anything to other insects. It also probably won't do anything to whatever eats the target insect--things that eat insects and are not unharmed by insect hormones tend to evolve away from eating insects. Another cool thing about using hormones as the basis for pesticides is there is not much the target can do to evolve resistance. An insect that evolves resistance to its own "go and mate" hormone, for instance, is not going to be passing those genes on.

Another thing you can do when you have enough entomologists to actually seriously study insect life cycles is try biological control. For many pest insects there are predator insects that kill the pest. There are also often parasites that can control the pests. If the pest is also a predator, there are often other predators that compete with the pests for food. If you know enough about this complex web of predator/prey/parasite, you can reasonably safely try things like boosting the predators of your pests, or bringing in non-pest competitors for the pest's prey.

But you need to really understand a lot about all the involved species to do that safely, so it suffers the same problem as does hormone based pesticides, but more so.
On HN it's a question of article quality, not site quality. Crappy sites occasionally have good articles (not sure if this counts as one, though) and good sites often have crappy ones.
You would have probably been against the American Revolutionary War then? Meh, let's let the British tax us. They're big and powerful. They're the Government.

And what about something like Vietnam? Who won that one?

And even if you're right, that the US government is just that big and bad. What if half the military defects and joins the revolt?

People have the right to defend themselves, and must be trusted to do so. Otherwise you get something like England. Say the wrong thing and you go to jail. The 2nd Amendment keeps the government in check. Eventually, given enough time, it will need checking.
Why are people surprised by this? Did everyone forget about these early IMs between zuck and a friend:

Zuckerberg: Yea so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard, just ask. ‘i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
Friend: what!? how’d you manage that one?
Zuckerberg: people just submitted it. i don’t know why. they “trust me”. dumb f*s.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5518753/Cambr...
Yep, exactly..
Is there any indication that these transactions were criminal? Many states allow person to person transfers of firearms, and even those that don't still allow transfers through FFLs (licensed gun stores). Unless people were selling things like unregistered NFA items, there is no indication that these sales were against the law.
Good summary of technical evaluation from equipments. I think the other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16643056 delved pretty deep in various subject scenario too. It would be the best for Uber to release the raw sensor data during the event, and it might be worthwhile for the community to see exactly what happened.
In Arizona,

> 28-793. Crossing at other than crosswalk
A. A pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles on the roadway.

(https://azbikelaw.org/jaywalking-in-arizona/)
I passed there tonight, the place is incredibly well lit and the person was probably visible from before the underpass, and probably visible the entire time she was on the road because of the geometry of the curve.
Ha! I know that restaurant. Pretty abysmal - but I think it's the only place in town that's quite that bad.

But the town does have two redboxes, so it's got that going for it...

I know a couple of people in that area (a bit up the mountain to the east) that choose to live there. One is a CostCo executive that is the regional manager some vertical (I want to say produce, but that might not be right) for most of the stores of the north half of everything west of the rockies. He's on the road a lot, but seems to want to live there. The other is an IT guy (well, internal developer) for Whole Foods and moved there and works remotely. Now - Montana is a more common place for remote hermit developers to go to, but a shocking number of retired/retiring people move to Buffalo. (Well, shocking to me because I wouldn't, but for a town of 4,500-or-so of that particular average age, having the influx-rate match (or exceed) the death-rate is in itself surprising (to me). It also fluctuates a lot with oil & natural gas prices -- I think the population was down around 3,000 by mid-2015)
Why have a society if you cannot trust the people in it to defend themselves?
Newsblur? Theres commenting and it's pretty easy to use.
Aside from android being easier to root, don’t the top-tier android phones have all of the other problems too?

Genuine question.
If we were really "exporting" housing services that would be an underrated opportunity, but when investors (foreign or domestic) purchase housing purely as an investment that just sits vacant, they drive up housing costs for local residents. And there's less to gain by selling to an investor as opposed a live-in homeowner since the homeowner will spend more money locally than the absentee investor that's just holding the property.
There is I think a broader legal/philosophical question here:

Are we to judge the car's ability to avoid the pedestrian on human standards or AI/machine standards?

From the video, it looked like this could be a situation where a human driver cannot avoid the accident (due to poor light, not enough reaction time etc) but a machine should be able to avoid it with it having multiple cameras, IR sight, and much faster processing speed.

Greater power comes with greater responsibility?
Forward-declaring Templates and Enums
FWIW it was a new moon in Tempe, Arizona on Sunday night, so it was probably darker than normal.
Article by the Washington Post on the same topic for those who may prefer a different flavor of 'biased source': https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru...
In high school I took a MS Office class my senior year - that was pretty much the extent of it. That was the beginning of my CS career, and I'm grateful that it was offered.
I own an AR15, but I never shoot it. Truth be told, I didn't buy it and normally I wouldn't be interested in owning it. The only reason I keep it is because it's one of a very few things I built with my father, from scratch, with a bunch of parts. But while building it I gained an appreciation for the engineering behind how it functions, and the underlying mechanism behind how it works. I think that knowledge is still valuable, even if the topic isn't favorable.
Human would have had significantly longer than this video. It's not that dark there at night. (Not as dark as the camera would lead you to believe). Swerving distance to avoid death is well within possibility. Aside from that, the possibility of death was further exacerbated by the vehicle not reacting to impact.
Not a luddite here (though definitely an Uber hater). I'm really disappointed by what this accident tells.

IMO this was still a hard case for a human[0], but it shouldn't be a hard case for LIDAR-equipped self-driving car. They were not doing Tesla-style stunts with "we'll drive only with a visual-spectrum camera". They had a suite of sensors on-board.

I expect it'll turn out that either it was Uber-specific problem (e.g. software bug, or lying about LIDAR capabilities, or both), or a deeper problem in sensor tech for self-driving cars in general. The second case would be really disappointing, as - given all that has been published so far - one would expect self-driving car tech to avoid accidents like this.

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[0] - I mean, really, a pedestrian going through a road like this with zero reflective lighting? Is it even legal in US? In Poland it isn't.
Redcode Raw is an example, I'm sure there are others. This doesn't mean there's zero in-camera processing, it just means it's not rendered, ergo it's scene-referred or camera-referred. There can be lens and sensor artifacts removed, like dead pixels.

OpenEXR is another such format that's camera agnostic, not totally dissimilar to Adobe DNG vs the (proprietary) Raw format used by a particular make/model of camera.
If you're going by second amendment rights, at this point it's more to the spirit of it for civillian fighter jets and tanks to be legalized than guns.

To some extent, I actually imagine it'd be safer for the average citizen.

* * *

From a more protectionist standpoint, you could say that an AR-15 or an AK-47 will allow you to stand up against your government. This isn't really realistic, however - no civillian weapon, especially not a semi-automatic rifle, will reliably take care of a tank, fighter jet, drone or military robot. [0]

[0] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150715-killer-robots-the-s...
More like bookstores refusing to sell any books on chemistry, out of fear that they will be held liable if some person uses one to make a bomb. Plenty of the things forbidden by these policy guidelines are entirely legal. Manufacturing firearms, manufacturing ammunition, and manufacturing magazines is legal in most states.
The incentives for GMO research are perverse, there's so much potential yet like most new tech it's been co-opted for evil.

Most of the money is going into how to sell more pesticide rather than making the plants more resilient. GMO could eliminate pesticides altogether and that would make Monsanto and friends very unhappy.
Fair point. But the laws of economics don't treat people differently just because they are culturally different -- supply, demand, price elasticity, cause-and-effect. If you restrict supply while demand goes up, don't be surprised that the city's real estate prices far outstrip people's incomes.

Similarly, if you loosen the limitations to development, don't be surprised to see prices come down.
And what are we to do when half the population is armed and wants to install an authoritarian regime?
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> assessment of DHS and CIA, per congressional briefings. The

Is that Comey's hearing? I remember listening to that. He believed that Russians hacked the DNC but he has not seen any evidence of it and he (the FBI) had no access to the servers. He says it comes from believing Crowdstrike. It seems the only solid peace of evidence comes from this one company.

Crowdstrike has made up stuff before. In their report about the war in Ukraine they published a made up number about the losses of artillery units. The Ukrainians publicly called them out on it http://www.mil.gov.ua/news/2017/01/06/informacziya-po-vtrati... and they were forced to update their report https://www.crowdstrike.com/resources/reports/idc-vendor-pro... They put more effort into the zombie soldier from the front page than the content of the report itself. Given the thousands and thousand of hours and all the pages and books written on this topic, they'd be a lot more evidence than just the Crowdstrike's report.

> they were released through Wikileaks as an intermediary.

Assange denies they came from the Russians or a state actor. He could be lying, Hillary certainly wanted to "drone that guy". But as an organization, if he was speaking on behalf of Wikileaks, they have been pretty factual. They obviously pick what they report on but once they say something I have not seen them blatantly lying.

> https://www.factcheck.org/2018/02/words-trump-russian-meddli...

Thanks for the link! The first part is saw is point out how Trump is contradicting himself. There is a whole sub-reddit (trump vs trump I think) and is basically just that. He is saying contradictory thing about anything, I don't see that as proof of collusion.

The timeline re-iterates that the evidence came from Crowdstrike. I'd hope there'd be more evidence than that. Maybe let DHS should take a look those machines. They should be able to find someone interested enough to investigate that. Wonder why they didn't / won't do it

I see what you mean by Trump Jr. coordinating with Assange on tweeting a about emails and how Assange wanted Jr to "leak" a tax report from Trump. Yeah that does look shady, agreed.

One thing I still don't see is Russians colluding with Trump compared to the volume of news and articles convinced of it: "he looked at him at the G20 summit", "he congratulated him on a bogus election", "he acts like he is subservient to him", "they have a piss tape". Those are fun to listen to and pretty effective, certainly keep people clicking and retweeting, but there needs to be something more solid there I think.
Yeah, I thought that this line:

> "They know everything we click and like on their site, and know who our closest friends and relationships are."

was actually a big understatement - due to the ubiquity of the share button, which (as many HN readers know, but many average internet users do not) tracks logged in (edit: and also logged out) users, they also know a decent approximation of everything, done by everyone across the entire internet.

Now, it may be ironic, but it might also be poetic justice if something being shared over Facebook ultimately weakened it. Imagine a virally-shared post encouraging people to take a deletion pledge in 5 days by sharing it. They could use the intervening 5 days to get contact information, and establish what kind of relationship they'd like to have with the people they actually care about on there.
Are you in dialup internet services group? I heard AOL no longer sending dialer installer floppies.
All should works now :)
Employment in Israel is (if there's no union involved) mostly at-will as well, even if not quite as at-will as the US.

However, it is my understanding that e.g. California is similar. It's not that asking someone to sign a non-compete clause is illegal; what is illegal is not properly compensating them for it. That is, a clause like "in the event of lawful termination of employment by either side, for a period of up to (at the employer's discretion) 12 months, you will continue to receive your salary and will not be allowed to compete with employer".

Such a clause is legal in Israel, and indeed it is how binding non-competes are implemented. I haven't had employees in California in almost 20 years now, but AFAIK it is similar there. It is probably worded differently because of how the non-compete laws on the books are written, but I've heard of cases where something to that effect was deemed legal and enforceable.
This is indeed an alarming move of trying to censor gun information online is by far the most miguided approach to regulating guns I've seen thus far. There aren't inherent risks to knowing the mechanics of physical items much less channels that deal with proper handling of guns or gun communities online. You are literally moving their communities further into the deepweb and making gun ownership a nefarious thing! Optics based bans are extremely frustrating and dissapointing to memembers of both reddit and youtube.
Velodyne's current product has more than enough horizontal resolution for that.[1] Look at the pictures.

[1] http://velodynelidar.com/blog/128-lasers-car-go-round-round-...
Templates these days are pretty bad. And you can’t filter for stuff like no third party HTTP requests, or no animations.

I even thought about creating a place for minimal themes that don’t load remote JS (and don’t do silly stuff like scrollbar hijacking).
Also ironic given that Mozilla continues to violate software freedoms by removing control from the very users they pay lip service to protecting. Until they go back on requiring their own cryptographic signature on all add-ons and the Facebook style walled garden this creates these PR moves will fall flat.

And before anyone says,

Yes, you can use developer version but that's a beta (yes, it is). Using a beta as your daily driver shouldn't be a thing.

Yes, you can use the unbranded not-Firefox version. But now you have to install it manually (not in any distro's repository) and keep it up to date manually.
Helicopter+Drone Proposal Done Right
Unsurprisingly, not the blood of the regulators.
Ask HN: Why is Facebook 2FA enrollment so restrictive?
When I try to set up 2FA for Facebook, I get the message "You must add either a phone or both security key and code generator in order to turn on two-factor authentication."

I prefer printed recover codes. They can be read over the phone in an emergency, are harder to loose (if you have a document safe), can be used and understood by anyone, don't break down and cost basically nothing. Phone based 2FA is well known to be open to social engineering attacks, and I don't have a security key because recovery codes.

I was able to set up a code generator app factor, but when I afterwards click on Recovery Codes I get "You need to enable Two-factor authentication before you can view your recovery codes." Clicking on the Set Up link again still gives the first message above. So in Facebook world, you must either use known-broken SMS verification, or learn to live with a Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) security key.

I just set up 2FA with Google and Dropbox, both of which were happy with the code generator app and recovery code combo. Does anyone else find Facebook's restrictions ridiculous?
The difference between Waymo and Uber here should be the difference between being allowed to continue, or getting barred from further self-driving research.
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> Facebook being slapped with a massive fine/being broken up might not do a lot to stop the general trading and exchange of users data online,

Or it might; the other companies are watching, and precedents do matter.

I honestly don't see how bringing Google/Amazon/Apple into this won't do more harm than good. In fact, if I were Zuckerberg, that's exactly how I would try to mitigate the issue for Facebook.
What's the Difference Between a Frat and a Gang?
I am not super familiar with gun channels, but I'm going to assume that they work same way as many other hobbies. Companies contact the Youtubers to showcase their new products, which are essentially adverts, which means there are always "affiliate links in the description box" to buy the stuff.

At least how I read the announcement this kind of linking will be forbidden which means that the companies making the products have no feedback mechanism on how successful the advertising is, which in turn can kill channels
The Mr. Robot extension wasn't an ad (it did nothing from being installed). With Cliqz they announced it would be bundled with the installer some of the time as a pilot program. I don't know how silent it was, and I can't find a good followup about what actually ended up happening in/after that pilot program.
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Japan also has a cultural interest in space that the west does not. Case in point for me was seeing a major japanese house builders website - their top marketing point was a ~1.3m/4.5ft high space in their home. With examples of someone using it as a (sit on floor) workdesk, a childrens play area, a library, storage space etc. This would not fly anywhere in the west.

As noted its also typical to modify a family home over time - maybe one child moves out and another starts a hair salon in their old ground floor room (yes the planning rules allow this)

Demolishing a home is also related to historic cultural use if timber where in the west the wealthy built out of brick and stone for the ages
This blog post, like much of the HN discussion, is full of baseless speculation. There's really nothing here except "LIDAR should've seen it." Duh.

The idea that Uber should release more data which won't be analyzed Donnelly but will only fuel even more speculation doesn't make much sense.

The NTSB is investigating. They are extremely through. Most importantly once all the data has been carefully analyzed and the failure mode had been understood the NTSB will be able to devise guidelines and protocols to prevent it from happening again.

Until then I don't see how all this speculation helps except to fulfill some sort of misguided anti-Uber fantasy.
The Brits weren't actually that far ahead of the civs in the ARWar, it was mostly a numbers issue, not a tech issue.

Vietnam wasn't on US soil, home-base would be infinitely cheaper.

> And even if you're right, that the US government is just that big and bad. What if half the military defects and joins the revolt?

The higher up they are the more nonexistant that chance gets, and the higher up you are the more likely it is that you have a kill-switch to any devices that can be used against the nation.

> People have the right to defend themselves, and must be trusted to do so. Otherwise you get something like England. Say the wrong thing and you go to jail. The 2nd Amendment keeps the government in check. Eventually, given enough time, it will need checking.

Actually, you have the US. People have been arrested for bible burning, [1] promoting Communistic views, [2] Japanese Internment Camps, [3] and more. It's absolutely anti-democratic, but the 2A supporters never will speak against these practices.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150715-killer-robots-the-s...

[1] http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/23/bible-burning-incident-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act_trials_of_Communist_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...