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I actually like having an algorithm curate my timeline. Not everyone I follow is as equally important to me, and some posts are more important than others.
Deep OS integration, visual feedback, doesn't change the way you work. As true then as it is now...
I disagree. What we're seeing here IMO is targeted influencing in it's own right. "Regular people" are way too susceptible to influence - period. In this case it is the joint forces of old media (who are vying to keep their obsolete business idea of peddling influence using paid ads), and governments who are seeing their tax-base dwindle when global tech companies move to tax havens, and certain tech competitors pointing fingers away from themselves: all whom are targeting Facebook to set an example.

Add a sprinkle of righteous outrage at the unethical tactics of Cambridge Analytica and how the Trump Campaign was able to use data that the DNC would rather have exclusive access to.

"Regular people" don't care that their data is hoarded, they only start caring when it is framed nefariously (and disingenuously) by interests like the above.
While I don't like clickbait I don't actually find this to be a very offensive case. It ties into the "oh wait, Facebook sells my data?" discussion pretty well.
Also there are many other articles on HN that break the rule far worse, imo.
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Nothing wrong with having a chance to steer clear, but it strikes me as an odd reaction unless you live in a society where only the criminals can defend themselves.
It's certainly not a huge market slice relative to Google, but Purism raised 2.5m for the FOSS Librem 5 [1], so there's still some momentum there.

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The code exists! The collision detection and emergency braking feature which many new cars already have, and which (I assume and hope) has been heavily road-tested.
> As far as I know, the only consistently used Office365 tools are Mail and Calendar.

O365 includes desktops app, so they are probably using Word, Excel and powerpoint already
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My first guess was that it was meant to be "ass-covering". A "sphincter" is a generic type of "circular muscle that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice", of which there are "over 60 types in the human body" (Wiki), but there's only one sphincter people usually talk about (outside scientific literature). Looking more closely at the definition of the "per-" prefix, I get "through"[1], in which case a "persphinctery" statement is most directly defined as one that "came out of someone's ass".

[1] http://membean.com/wrotds/per-through
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> we're currently at 1 pedestrian fatality and 0 fatalities for "people in cars killed due to overzealous/conflicting automated safety systems".

Not trying to take sides here, but the last part strikes me as "citation needed".
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How do they feel about Facebook's business practices etc?
The human driver can't coordinate with the self-driving system either, he just makes overriding inputs. Treat the built-in safety system as another overriding actor.
... though the actual page is disappointing. Better title would be See what data Google has about you. Preferably mentioning that it's just a link to "My Activity".
I do wish Stallman articles wouldn't do this kind of thing. It's kind of like those guys who used to unironically write "Micro$oft" on documents during the 90's/2000's. How can anyone take a document like that seriously?

That page should be amazing because it's just a long curated list of every time someone has been majorly fucked by facebook. I really want a page like that so that whenever someone says "why do you hate facebook so much?", I can just say "read this" and then link them a massive litany of offenses.

Unfortunately, because it contains that snarky non-word, the entire page takes on an aura of conspiracy mania. It could read like a legal document, but with that one change it reads like a geocities site, and no one I link to it can take it seriously. What a waste.
The site informed me that pitythafoo.com is available if someone wants it.
Wait till we get fully AI controlled offensive and defensive weapons and nobody can turn them off because then the enemy would win and we live in this state of permanent AI killer robot vs. AI killer robot warfare.
Also in Europe it depends what road signs are at the roundabout. They have no special status in my country and can be looked as a "T" intersections connected to a circle. In most cases there is a yield sign for the cars approaching the roundabout so the cars already on it have right of the way, but it is not the case for all roundabouts. Also, some roundabout allow exit from the two rightmost lanes, others just from one—it also depends on signage.
Integrating the two systems must be fiddly, sure, but fundamentally not hard and fairly easy to test.

Compared to all the other aspects of making a self-driving car, which are genuinely very, very hard and require groundbreaking technology, it seems incredibly lazy and negligent not to get this bit right.
Median wages have decline by 4% since 2000.

Median wealth has fallen by 28% in a decade.

The middle class has been reduced by 11% since 1971.

Even in the chart you posted, things people NEED have become steadily more expensive while wages have remained flat.

Student loan debt has skyrocketed over 200% since 1990 which is needed in most cases for a good job.

How is this not decline?

* http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middl...
The human safety driver IS a completely different uncooperative system active at the same time.
maybe you could explain at least one mechanism

1. Arizona does things that are "business friendly" and "good for high-tech R&D" regardless of job creation.

2. It becomes widely known that Arizona is business friendly, and good for high-tech R&D.

3. This reputation attracts companies that will create jobs.

(I'm not claiming I think this will work - just that it's plausible a politician might think it could work.)
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The should ditch the human out of the care too. What happens if it gives contradictory command?
More seriously, as it was already pointed out elsewhere: Human > car safety features > AI. So it is pretty clear what to do when the car wants to engage emergency braking.
I find it interesting that the engineers' laziness may just happen to translate to an "evil" win for the company.
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You forget that if the graphic drivers crash in the userspace, it can be automatically restarted, while if it crash in kernel space, nothing you can do except hard reboot
The road where the accident took place is @ 45 MPH; the "35 MPH" figure came from confusing it with the road in opposite direction (they are separate there).
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i bet disabling these features make you stick out even more ;D
When resentment builds against an entrenched company, and a good alternative comes along, the shift can be pretty rapid. The Quark-X-press to Adobe InDesign exodus was particularly fast.
This is actually an article in the NYT’s photography section. It does not claim to be a complete survey of these sites.
Evolutionary computation has been promising self-programming machines for 60 yrs
Being in userspace doesn't mean compromised performance, just like how QNX has done for decades
Seems to be bendable so maybe breaking it is harder than current screens.

> “The materials are so thin and flexible that the device can be made transparent and can conform to curved surfaces,” said Der-Hsien Lien, a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley and a co-first author
Instead of mobile phones and TVs, look at bigger items like health care, housing, and education, all of which have gotten more expensive

Indeed. I can do without my TV. In fact, I turn it on only once or twice a week for a few hours. I can do without a flagship mobile. In a pinch, I can get a cheap-o no-name brand for important calls.

Housing, health-care, education - these are all key moneypits that are more expensive, for less in return. Don't even get me started on pensions. For as long as I have been actually aware of pensions as a thing, all I have heard is how the fund was lost, raided, payouts going down, pensionable age going up, and without exception, those tat subside off their pension only live in abject poverty, often making choices between eating or heating.
Then there's grep -whor which is also super useful.
By this definition almost all software would be an AI.

Making decisions or reacting to stimuli does not necessarily require any form of intelligence. You probably meant automation instead of "AI".
they had similar experiments with a bull and implant, where radio signal made it stop mid charge. i think people should also realise these days it's even possible to generate waves which interact with the low frequencies associated with brain function, where in times of this experiment that was more difficult to acheive, so theu put an implant to convert signals.

reallise, like you draw analogy with fake news being manipulative signals, all inputs which have interpreters behind it can be manipulated if one knows how the input is interpreted in detail. that's just the nature of interpreting signals, it opens possibility to 'fake' signals.
Yeah competition is good.

Temporary monopolies can be sometimes good like AT&T building telco/software with Bell Labs and C++ etc, Microsoft with the desktop and getting people online, early ISPs to get broadband started, but they usually end up abusing that position eventually.

Some companies get greedy when they get the market leader monopoly power and it can lead to less innovation if they focus on limiting competition rather than beating the open market.

Microsoft started to abuse their position eventhough they had won. Then Microsoft got slowed down both from the anti-trust/monopoly DOJ/EU strainer and the subsequent miss of iPhone/Android mobile market.

Microsoft got humbled and returned to innovation and is a better company for it today, but has lost power they once held. That speedbump allowed Google (Android/Cloud/Search), Apple (iOS), Amazon (Cloud), and more to rise. Ultimately slowing down Microsoft even a bit re-opened innovation and bettered everyone's quality of life when they had started stiff-arming and blocking competition rather than innovating.

There is a lesson to companies that get the market monopoly or top positioning, stay competitive and don't slow down innovation by attacking others, continue to research and develop and innovate. Resorting to limiting others to get ahead in competition makes the companies forget why they are the market leader, win in the open market and innovate to stay the leader.

Companies on monopoly/market leader watch: Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and others in tech. Some that have already gone beyond acceptable limitations of stifling innovation include Comcast, Verizon and AT&T and are in need of breaking up again as they turned to favored markets rather than neutral. These companies are not winning with better products but winning with bribes, lobbying and limiting innovation only.

As long as companies stay focused on innovations and winning in the fair competitive market, not with limiting others beyond open fair market competition, they will stay ahead and not forget why they are the leader. Market leaders should innovate instead of being the bully.
the disease is not that we are gullible or emotionally fragile, that is the 'weakness' which is being exploited.
the disease is that people actually want to exploit eachother for their own gains.
But they aren't conflicting: they have the same goal (not running into stuff).

In fact, there's yet another different, redundant, potentially conflicting safety system: the human safety driver.

If only one were to trigger, it still wouldn't be a conflict.

And yeah, redundancy through using non-identical systems is very much a thing, and considered much safer than having two identical things (which might make the same mistakes).

Source: I've worked on ASIL D safety-critical automotive systems, where diverse redundant subsystems were actually a design criterion.
I found the name for that concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture - subsumption architecture puts some of the intelligence in the lower level systems. While the higher level controls can tell the lower level systems what it wants, it can't do things that the lower system determines is dangerous.
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It's better to switch off JavaScript. Try panopticlick with and without it.
I generate random hexadecimal strings as answers to mandatory security questions. All authentication information is stored in a password manager entry.
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I'm not sure why it is so terribly important for you to defend Apple here, but let's just say that I'm pretty sure I would just avoid using a smartphone all together for anything important.

Contacts has code in it that is explicitly designed to expose this info (to provide features found useful by many Apple customers of course). And we know that the safety guarantees are somewhat noncommittal (and I would argue at least a bit misleading).

And that's enough, if you want to avoid giving out this info, I'd use other tools to communicate.
Increased birth rate is not necessarily a good thing for human development at this stage. Our planet cannot support an infinite number of people.

Since we are already facing unprecedented growth that won't be stopped except by famine, world war or some other calamity, it's important we find a way to stretch our limited resources further and develop technologies that will help us expand beyond earth like nuclear fusion.
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What definition of AI do you use that would qualify ABS as an AI but wouldn't also include majority of all software ever written?
Can't wait to wake up with ads on my windows...
Never said it's perfect, just not "zero".
This is why when I go out in general (I've lived in Boston, NYC and now Jakarta), I've just wore my head phones. I'm a somewhat tall-ish black guy, so people don't usually want to have a random conversation with me, and if they do (or anyone else is particularly loud about something I could care less about) I can choose to ignore or (dis)engage more easily with an acceptable excuse without becoming annoyed.

>Setting the standard that telling people about your day or telling them about yourself is "imposing" is exactly the kind of thinking that's producing our society where nobody ever has a real conversation unless it's via introduction by a third party and an app first.

Does "real conversation" have to happen in any particular medium, or is it the case that some prefer other mediums for "real conversation" over others?
Is it really that hard to implement the policies of the GDPR? The way I see it it is basically breach notification and right to access/delete data, which does not seem that difficult and probably not a burden for a startup to "not grow as quickly".
The biggest question in my mind about the ARC proposal is how well these new superconductors stand up to radiation. This is a concern for ITER as well, which uses more traditional superconductors. The ARC team is looking into it, but I'm going to remain unenthusiastic about ARC until they've really proven out the concept.
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And this is how the Cult Mechanicus begins. :)
Swift has essentially all the same constraints, and fretting about compilation speed with the C++ approach are hard to stomach given one of the widely-used replacement is equivalent: manually copy-pasting code, instead of letting the compiler do it.

In any case, the truth of the complaint about generics isn't actually relevant here: the rebuttal is to "people complain about Go not reinventing enough", and they don't, as they (truthfully or otherwise) think it is ignoring already researched and widely-implemented solutions to the problem and complain about this (that is, the complaint is "uninventing", not "not enough reinventing").
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Exactly. The Readme is horribly outdated, but the basic remarks are still true.
> "Regular people" don't care that their data is hoarded, they only start caring when it is framed nefariously (and disingenuously) by interests like the above.

If the framing is a good or bad thing is just a matter of opinion. A 'good' way of flipping what you've written is 'we've finally found a way to break through to regular people about these issues on a level they understand and resonate with'.

To call general articles on websites like cnn.com "targetted influencing " is a bit of a stretch.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
I expect once the material has conformed to a curved surface it would have to be rigid from there on out.
That has nothing to do with Android, but with the hardware (ARM, SoCs, ...).

There are also laptops where you can't install Ubuntu btw, still it's "more open" than Android.
Ha, well, not to get too defensive about my past defensiveness, this was at a time where the irrational hatred was constant and unrelenting. Some time after the 'Javascript: The Good Parts' book, but before all the ES6 goodies.

Just a few weeks ago I had some badstalgia when I mentioned I did front-end development to someone. He responded with a rant about how real programmers don't use javascript, and how it was written in ten days, and so on.

But yes, I'm happy to have largely stepped away from the language wars. I occasionally join the #javascript channel on IRC and it's truly astounding how much of the conversation is just people attack or defending javascript passionately, and for very silly reasons.
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> they store my search history

by default they also remember every time you open what app and where exactly you go.

i know because they can show me where i've been and which apps i've used. I let them collect the data because those are things I am interested in as well.
Having gone down a similar path with a team "Barely any git" is still a stretch for non-programmer types.
>There was a person at the wheel.
That person wasn't paying full attention to the road. From the video of the crash, it looks like the woman at the wheel was looking at their phone.
>Why is no one acknowledging that this woman was responsible for taking over the wheel if necessary for any reason.

The woman was part of their safety program, but ultimate responsibility for the effectiveness and failures of said program lies with them. For instance,

Other driver assist programs (eg, Cadillac) have eye tracking and hand sensors in the wheel. If your eyes leave the road or hands leave the wheel escalating alarms are initiated until driver assist is deactivated. This is a technology that takes into account normal human behavior. Uber did not do this.

Uber previously used two person teams, to minimize tedium and lapses in awareness that emerge when a single person as the job of staring out an uneventful window for hour(s) at a time. This is a policy that takes into account normal human behavior. They did not do this.

Either or both of these could have prevented this death. Both of these decisions occur at a level above the proximal driver-pedestrian interaction.
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A colleague (not direct colleague) was fined because he, while executing his normal responsibilities, accidentally broke a German custom rule. He's not German, nor located in Germany. German custom fined him at his private residence. He performed this work on behalf of the company. German customs didn't care; figured out where he currently lives and sent the fine to him personally (his name is on it). So he's basically liable according to German customs.

If you do business with EU then you have to follow certain laws.
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unless the obstacle appears half way through an intersection where only one direction stops?
> No way to download it, no way to get a pricing.

Instructions at https://nextcloud.com/collaboraonline/ .. There's even a docker image for that.
Which is a shame because Belkin equipment was crap
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I flirted with it briefly, had a few phone interviews, then realised that there's few things I want to do with my working life less than help to progress facebook.
Can anybody explain to me why this command can return instantly but "lsof -i" sometimes takes ages to complete?
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A 'general chemical printer' would be pretty tricky.

A 'general gene printer' on the other hand - http://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/
Certainly not transparent file system compression. Can save developers couple 10 GBs but hey (source code, binaries, debug symbols, all compress nicely).
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Nothing about whether or not the person involved happened to have a permanent place of residence is a relevant descriptor to the situation at hand.
I don’t think they can disclose that. Besides they get paid pretty well to do their work and not ask questions about the ethics of it.
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I've spent the last 15 years or so dodging between Microsoft and Google's email solutions. I've tried escaping them to smaller providers including old fashioned pop3/smtp, but I feel like I've been strong-armed back into using them. The smaller companies tend to have numerous problems with delivery to providers such as Yahoo and MSFT Office 365. It's almost like there's a conspiracy between the larger providers to automatically accept email but for the small guys, they don't get a look in.

I want to move away because I entirely distrust them.
That's quite opposite to how autonomous systems should be built in the first place: start with isolated modules that do not depend on each other, and stack them on top of each other as the abstraction level goes up.

If you have an automatic but a brutal, on-off style emergency-braking module based on, for example, lidar then it's much easier to develop another, maybe less aggressive but much smarter, auto-braking module based on the regular camera inputs. You can count on the failsafe system to act if higher-level modules fail. With braking in particular, maybe even a couple of redundant low-level emergency brake systems would be a good idea before you even consider any of the more high-level systems. You really don't want to hit jaywalking pedestrians or wandering drunks because both kinds do exist in reality.

Similarly, once the car has a couple of obstacle-detection and auto-braking systems up and running, it's easier to work on autonomous driving because you can be confident that your computer won't be able to drive the car into anything as these isolated and separate systems will take care to stop the car.

Consequently, when you're developing the navigation and routing system it has to be able to rely on the driving functions that deals with the present-time traffic situations, like keeping up with the flow of traffic, slowing down, changing lanes, etc. Again, same thing as with emergency brakes: to develop a smarter higher-level system you need to have lower-level failsafes in place.

In the case of autonomous driving a failure should mean a harsh but unnecessary full stop or the inability to continue, not a collision or the inability to stop. They should definitely have left Volvo's own system on as an additional failsafe mechanism.
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