skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good for these people. If Uber really had lidar+radar [1] and disabled Volvo safety features [2] (such as radar) there is no excuse for this. Uber should have clarified the video released may not be representative of the information they have.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/heres-how-ubers-self-drivi...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/uber-disa...
The commenter isn't arguing that they're the same:

> That said, this really doesn't address either the Cambridge situation, or the fact that Facebook themselves allowed the Obama campagin to pull demographic information in violation of their own polices...

The sentence is essentially "this doesn't address A, nor does it address B", which requires that A and B be different.
Wow these designs bring back some memories. As a kid I probably had several hundred cassettes, some pre-recorded, but mostly recorded from the radio or copies (remember high-speed dubbing?). I used to ask for cassettes whenever we'd end up at the store (well, until I got my first computer, then it was disks). I guess I was a bit of a weird kid.
The "hit-by-a-bus" scenario for me is expressed quite often where I work. I have no problem with it, if it is not repeaded a dozen times. Then it starts to sound like a threat..
How much translating is he looking to do? What languages does he translate to?

Sandstorm.io recently added i18n, but only has a handful of community contributed translations so far: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/tree/master/shell/...

Sandstorm is a self-hostable web app platform which can help free people from proprietary cloud services. It's also a nifty way for people to develop and deploy small/niche web apps that aren't sustainable as a business on their own.

Various apps I use inside Sandstorm, of course, also could always use translation help as well. Etherpad, EtherCalc, Wekan, etc. Some are much more translated than Sandstorm, some are in about the same place. (EtherCalc could really use some translation love: https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc/tree/master/l10n)
Would you recommend "Software Tools in Pascal" vs the original?
>Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over

Awesome. So he's going to give everyone his e-mail login and password, right? Because nobody gets privacy anymore and he's going to lead by example, for sure.

Oh, wait. He means the age of privacy is over, except for hypocrites and rich people who can afford to pay for it.
There's a lot of similar responses regarding the API copyright issue. APIs have been 'subject to copyright' for 4 years, since the 2014 decision in this case. Lets see some key details:

This is the 2012 ruling:
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-1202.pdf

Alsup indicates that SSO isn't dead law, but finds that APIs aren't copyrightable because they are 'the only one way to write" things to get the key functionality. Copyright doesn't cover purely functional elements and since the expression and the function are the same, copyright bows out.

Note: I like Alsup, but this argument is based on obviously factually incorrect premises which are blown up on appeal.

Here's the appeal in 2014: http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-or...

They summarize the facts as follows: " And, the court informed
the jury that Google conceded that it copied the declaring
code used in the 37 packages verbatim. The court also
instructed the jury that Google conceded copying the
rangeCheck function and the eight decompiled security
files, but that Google maintained that its use of those
lines of code was de minimis. See Final Charge to the
Jury (Phase One), Oracle Am., Inc. v. Google Inc., 3:10-cv3561
(N.D. Cal. Apr. 30, 2012), ECF No. 1018 at 14 (“With
respect to the infringement issues concerning the
rangeCheck and other similar files, Google agrees that
the accused lines of code and comments came from the
copyrighted material but contends that the amounts
involved were so negligible as to be de minimis and thus
should be excused.”). "

Ie: Google copied and admitted it copied. This isn't a cleanroom implementation.

For more details on why they found copyrightability, see the discussion starting on p.17. There's a lot in there, and having a discussion about it (or at least a proper one) requires people to look at the actual text.

Edit: Made the formatting better.
Google is way worse, you have other options in social media and many, many people are moving to other platforms.

Google on the other hand is everywhere, both on your side and on the servers you visit. They probably track less proportionally, but you give them far more data than facebook, no doubt.
I wondered the same thing on the following thread, posted about a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16477295

I believe some manufacturers will take entire responsibility while in some cases it's the person that "starts" the self-driving vehicle. Legislation seems to be on a state-by-state basis at the moment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car_liability
It didn't get published
It works similarly to Private Browsing Mode - it actually uses the same architecture.

But the Facebook container retains your Facebook cookies (and therefore your login) after restarts.
It's Kansas.
This thread has been worth is just to learn about explainshell. I'm so happy that exists.
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Read about all the new features but no mention of performance. Anyone know if there are any improvements or regressions in performance?
> But we still have work to do regarding Google

Slay one beast at a time, otherwise your thin your army and are defeated.
I'm downvoting this not because I disagree with the sentiment (I'm in favor of gun control) but because there is zero chance this doesn't descend into a hellscape flamewar, when there's plenty of very valid on-topic discussion to be had here.
There _are_ incremental improvements, in the form of 5 gamma ray, 6 x-ray, 5 UV, and 4 visible satellites. Actually, there are more than that since Hubble went up.

Unfortunately there are real physical limits to visible light telescopes, and there are not many ways to get around them without drastically increasing the size of the lens/mirrors, and drastic increases in size and weight are not something that plays well with our space capabilities.

I know it seems ridiculous from the outside, but do you really think thousands and thousands of astronomers, physicists, etc., wouldn't be exploring every single possible way to improve visible light telescopes? That the idea of "incremental improvement" never occurred to anyone? They are using the current approach because it is the only approach, at least for the time being. Perhaps in 10, 20, 30 years we'll be able to launch hundreds of smaller telescopes that can achiever a higher effective resolution, but, again, it's pretty damned hard.
In other words, for data-bound processing (such as most web services), async approaches are faster (specifically they have greater throughput).
Advertising isn't necessarily a bad thing. There are restaurants and niche products I value that I only discovered due to a postcard ad or a sidebar ad on a forum I frequent. In moderation it's an informer and can be good for society by helping break up local monopolies.
This quote from the responsible parties says it all:

"Obviously things do fall faster than Newton said."
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I use WebEx daily and have almost no issues. That said, I work for a very large company and we have our own instance, so maybe we have something custom.
From the ruling:

> The Java API is a collection of “pre-written Java
source code programs for common and more advanced
computer functions.”

I'm not too familiar with Java, but I believe they are mistaking APIs for libraries there. Did Google infringe on the libraries or the actual API?

Like did Google actually infringe on what Oracle calls the "Java API" (but is actually a library), and are we all talking past each other when discussing "API copyrightability" when Google may have actually been found of infringing a library?

I think the CAFC may be just as confused about which one is which and on which it's ruling.

Additionally, how would this relate to the Java programming language being "free" and why would Google infringe on anything if it was free?

I don't know the actual details of Sun's licensing, though, but even from what Oracle is claiming now, it seems that Oracle's case is quite weak, and I don't see how its license specifically banned Google from doing whatever they think they did.

Finally, the CAFC's pro-patent rulings are almost always overturned by the Supreme Court, and if I believe they wouldn't even have gotten this case if Oracle hadn't also accused Oracle initially of patent infringement. If Oracle had only accused Google of copyright infringement, I think some other court would have gotten the case, maybe a court with less of a bad record in understanding IP law (going by Supreme Court's rulings at least). It's just a shame that Obama's pro-IP laws lawyers got in the way and convinced the Supreme Court to reject the case.
>>When the military develops a plane for more than a hundred times over that, no one bats an eye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...

Program cost: US $1.508 trillion

Space missions come at chicken feed expense.
> Sure, having a pressure sensitive stylus opens up new options, but it's not a unique iPad feature compared to ...

Isn't this kind of an Apple specialty? Something exists but isn't used. They release a version that is good and is actually used.
The FTC investigation regarding default privacy settings and privacy settings attributable to past posts has been settled https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb... so very unlikely.
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This is also the man who built a mile-long six-foot wall around his Hawaii estate. This is his idea of 'planting roots and joining the community.' [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/23/mark-zuck...
That still doesn't really make sense. A bankruptcy reorganization would make more sense than a complete shutdown, if the stores themselves were really profitable.
Imagine if you invited an electrician to your house to fix something, but he would secretly search for your documents and copied them. That is what many apps do today. They advertise themselves as a game or as a map app but secretly they spy on you or use your phone for their purposes.
IMDB should host one :)
Definitely. One PR approach would be to capitalize off of this tragedy for sales. That doesn’t appear to be the approach they’re taking though (“Please don’t regulate us into oblivion” or “Self driving can be done safely, don’t judge the industry by the failures of one participant”).
>Price is the kicker here though. When I own a car, I can pretty much drive as frequently or infrequently as I want.

if you've ever actually sat down and priced out how much each usage of your car costs you, it's not that good of a deal. Personal vehicles seem cheap because people treat them as a non-optional fixed cost, but between the cost of the vehicle itself, insurance, fuel, maintenance, and your time spent driving you can price a car service fairly high and still have it compare favourably to owning a car.

The trick will just be to convince people to start thinking about a car service the same way they currently think about their car payments or fuel costs. I'd be curious to see what a per-month subscription service would look like instead of a per-ride fee structure like taxis or ubers currently use. $300-400/mo for unlimited rides would be, for me, a better deal than owning a car. I'm curious if that could be profitable.
This is a solved problem.

You have a neural network which inspects the code change, and predicts which tests/scenarios might be affected (a change in the vision system is unlikely to affect the handbrake tests for example). You run only the most likely to fail tests. A test which hasn't been run for a long time is more likely to fail, since more code changes were done since it was last tested, so all tests end up being run on a semi-random schedule.

When any test fails, you then run back through time, bisecting every revision till you find the code commit which caused the failure.

At that point, depending on your engineering workflow, you either create a ticket to an engineer to fix this commit to pass the test before the next release, or you auto-revert that commit.
I think Russell has him sized when he opines that he has ”some mischief about him”
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Well it seems like everybody else here thinks that your perspective is the naïve one.

That one of the top three companies in the world is struggling to stay relevant is ridiculous really.
I deleted my facebook and use HN more. So technically yes, at least for me. I wonder how many other people who frequent HN have either done away completely with facebook or give it less attention than a control group
As a company why would you prioritize your developer's time on that? At best it sits low on the backlog. Your performance reviews aren't based on how much you make it easy for people to leave. The only way that stakeholders can drive behavior is if they actually had any power, but Facebook users don't sit on the board.
> The fact that Git contains two different but largely equivalent formatting languages is kind of emblematic of its whole design, really.

tip of the iceberg.
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Lol, I've been emailing back and forth with LogMeIn, trying to understand the privacy policy regarding Lastpass. This is my fourth reply, starting to get a bit of details, reps statements are in italics:

While we may have some level of customization in our advertising to each user (if the product they are using has in-product advertising)

I'm going to assume "may" can be understood as "do" and the section before and then inside parenthesis can be taken as:

if the web page is serving ads, "we use http ad-removal & ad-injection to replace those ads with our own" , however the "our" part is still unclear...

Do you serve those ads solely in house?

Do you only have ad servers injecting pages for "your own" products?

Is it possibly you use 3rd party ad-servers/ providers?

Do you preform requested targeting on behalf of someone else using this marketing profile data?
And if so, do you get compensated somehow other than "for profit purposes"?

they may opt-out of external marketing, and as stated, we are not selling their marketing profile data to a third party for profit purposes.
#BranchScope is a new side-channel attack method against #Intel #chip
Maybe, maybe not. What's the big difference between cabs and Uber? Price and convenience. Uber and Lyft are successful because they fill a huge need in the market that the overregulated taxi industry couldn't (or wouldn't). If there's clearly a need for more cabs, and the answer is just to add more cabs, why do you think nobody addressed that concern?
> Does 10.11 still get security [...] updates?

Yes.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208465
Indeed. However, atomic thick layers can probably be levetated easily (electrostatic or magnetic), and it doesn’t need to be solid to fool our eyes.
Uber driver gets stuck driving down stairs, blames Uber’s navigation system
I enjoyed the first edition immensely. Some folks are calling out that most of the refactorings are mainstream, but IDE integration doesn’t mean that it has become common practice or second nature to most engineers.

If I was going to read a refactoring book while waiting for the second edition, I would take a look at “Refactoring to patterns.” (https://industriallogic.com/xp/refactoring/) R2P combines the best parts of Fowler’s Refactoring and the Gang of Four design pattern book.

Notably: it emphasizes the fluid nature of Refactoring and design patterns. Every Refactoring to a pattern in the book is shown in a few different ways, each explaining some of the trade offs. It has the same recipe book feel that Fowler’s book has and it lends itself to browsing and reference.

The recipe-driven approach makes it easy to carry out the refactorings and provides a fun new way to think about modifying code.

Imho, the section on the “Compose method” Refactoring in R2P makes the purchase worth it. How can such a dead simple Refactoring make code so much nicer? Read the book to find out ;)
i think that's only after they received a request.
That sounds interesting and scary at the same time. Can you elaborate some more on that?
I think that such strategy with data poisoning will not be effective because based on current data your activity will be marked as anomaly and will not go into any dataset. So this strategy is the same as doing nothing.

But I agree that it's pointless to delete visible data about yourself, because statistics are already stored somewhere else and you don't have power over it.
The market had already set the cost of a private ride long before Uber: cabs. Uber has taken a huge market share by subsidizing their passengers with investor money, undercutting the cost of traditional cabs. One could argue that Uber is more efficient, higher quality, has a better UX, etc., but in the long run the cost passengers have to pay for a private ride with a human driver will return to yellow cab levels. Drivers need to eat.

The key phrase there is human driver. It's no secret that Uber is betting on autonomous rides in the near future, which completely changes the economics of ride hailing. It looks likely that they will be able to limp across that finish line with their dismal human driver financials, into the world of real automation profitability.
Oh, I completely get the point, I'm just saying I'd do it, too. My family, my house, heck yeah.
“depart without notice and without looking back” can be just as much of a threat, though, especially if the person raising the scenario is a Key Person themselves.
Ha, I also wear blue-blocking goggles hours before sleep time.
Basically, yes. The mirror is the same size as Hubble, and the field is much wider. However, there are some technical differences that make it less useful for imaging extrasolar planets and the most distant galaxies. Details are harder to come by, as this is ex-military hardware, so certain things are still classified.
But they do a better job of keeping that information private, whereas Facebook provided the actual data to their partners and advertisers.
> And if you don't trust Google, then Bing and DuckDuckGo are a click away

I really really really really want to like DuckDuckGo, but it simply doesn't work compared with Big G.

I switched my default search engine to DDG once again last week, and after a frustrating week of rarely finding what i want, had to switch back go Google.

Last night was the final straw. I was trying to find out the delivery area for a particular newspaper. All DDG gave me was irrelevant ads, links to the newspaper's home page, outdated links to newspaper pages that are 404 now, and links to Wikipedia and other articles about the city.

Same search query on Google gave me as the first result a link to a page at the newspaper where I could put in a ZIP code to see if delivery was available.

I'll try DDG again in six months to see if its improved, as I have three or four times now. Fingers crossed.
Yes, I did. That's when he explained his situation to me. I mean I was aware of his background, but up to that point I didn't really grasp how strongly that influenced his decision making. In the end I didn't really agree with his POV but I surely did understand and appreciate why he was thinking the way he did.
Pretty sure that driving tests for humans do absolutely nothing - if you eliminated the whole process (and replaced it with a simple age requirement) it wouldn't show up in safety stats at all

On the other hand, any self driving company is running an extremely complicated and extensive test suite on their code. Developing these tests is a core engineering challenge to making a sdv and any test developed by a regulator will be a joke by comparison (unless we give the regulator billions of dollars to essentially replicate the work.)
I like rocket a lot - practically as easy as writing flask but with glorious type-safety thrown in - but I really wanted async ('like, now') because my project will have a large number of persistent connections. I'm sure rocket will get async eventually but it looks to be some way off.

In comparison to rocket, actix-web does not use codegen tricks so is not as ergonomic or as safe - e.g. it cannot statically check that the path variables that you ask for actually exist on the route - but these are things that a simple test suite easily picks up (incidentally actix-web has a nice built-in test server).

Also I was a little concerned that rocket development has stalled somewhat. 26 PRs waiting at time of writing. As I recall the maintainer is teaching a Rust class as Stanford so he's most likely just very busy.
You might also enjoy "Beautiful Code" then. While not everyone will agree that every example in that book is "beautiful", usually there's something in there for everyone. It's currently my favorite generalized programming book.
Yeah, at the time they were also talking about being like Apple and being a software and hardware company...so the Sun hardware was part of it too.
I chose to stop the relationship. It probably still has all my information in a shadow account, and might be collecting SMS messages I exchange with people who maintain FB accounts. Facebook doesn't have to force people to do anything -- are you going to cut off contact with everyone you suspect might possibly have an account, to prevent them from creating a shadow account on you?
GaiaGPS - I wish there was an easy way to query my GPS tracks!
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rotten tomatoes should host one : )
Thanks for the insight jsight. I sure hope engineers wouldn't use it.

To be fair, it has been a few years since I took the survey so I can't recall if it mentioned what the data was used for.

I don't know enough about machine-learning and self-driving technology but my one question would be, where do engineers get that kind of data to feed into a system? At some point a scenario like the Trolley Problem is going to happen (near or distant future) and what kind of data is going to be making that decision to swerve or remain on course?
I remember 'w' from reading Cuckoo's Egg some 25+ years ago as a teenager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg

I still do it instinctively on my own boxes.
And they may as well shoot one out in various directions if the majority of the cost is R&D... Who knows what we'll find if we look .
Would be cool to make a script that just deletes everything older than 30 days. Then most of your friends wouldn't notice anything unusual about you in their news feed, but you wouldn't be making as much a large dataset for advertising and political marketing
It's incredibly effective! I find I get tired shortly after putting them on. Changes in screen color temperature are great, but I don't trust it to be enough. The blue-blockers are killer!

Thanks for reading.
> This is misleading. Synchronous sequences are generally faster than asynchronous ones because yielding and getting scheduled back has a non-zero overhead

To get a bit pedantic, synchronization introduces overhead. If you've got an 8-core processor running things async/parallel may complete faster since you aren't pinned to one core.

That said, it's much harder to get right since you have to deal not only with thread sync overhead but also cache/pipeline sharing and a bunch of other gnarly things.