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Dodging questions like these to stay focused on Google only tells great amounts about bias.

- Do you want your ISP tracking you and selling your private data? Do you think that is the place of an ISP?

- Does it bother you you are PAYING your ISP and they are reselling your data as well?

- Do you trust Comcast and Verizon and like that you are paying them to sell your data when you just want to use them to get online and are ok with this?

- Since you have no issue with ISPs selling data that you are paying them to keep private, you would be fine with Google Fiber ISP also doing that?

I am against Google Fiber ISP having access that ISPs just won with bribery over innovation/product offerings that people want. This is about the level of privacy and access ISPs should have not about Google.

- The ISPs already charge too much and little of it is going towards innovations/network advancement, instead they want to be content creators and ad platforms instead of charging more to get to gigabit and beyond. ISPs need to get back to innovating on providing better/faster internet service, what they are are network providers.

- ISPs should not be involved in content/ads/selling private data as that leads to bias and throttling, we need to have a separation of power from ISPs, the network gateway to the internet, and content creators on top of the internet.

When is it a good idea to have content creators own the network outright? All that leads to is bias, preferential treatment and monopolies (furthering them).

We have made immense mistakes in 2017 allowing ISPs to sell your private data, remove privacy protections at the network level AND the removal of net neutrality.

Net neutrality makes the network provider neutral, simple as that. ISPs you pay to get access to the network which is a utility today and to keep your data private, not sell it.
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This might sound a bit retroactive, but why not require that systems which allow for even temporary autonomous mode have road-embedded systems and real-time comms with neighbors in order to be activational?

That is, do not allow autonomous mode, unless there is an old-school road-embedded autonav system and if there are other vehicles on the road, it be able to realtime comm with at least xx% of its directional and radial neighbors (to add predictability and reduce misinformation.) This in addition to all current guidance systems.

Obvs road-embedded systems do not account for debris, accidents, etc., but know the ideal path and would be backup-of last resort (incapacitated operator, other systems down). Real-time comms with neighbors surfaces good information and buries stale or inaccurate info.
flow, not ts, right?
> This is how many open source projects handle criticism.

No, this is how some projects handle bullshit.

Criticism is fine and even useful.

Lemme explain the difference, because you are still not taking a grip on yourself.

When you think developers introduced a regression and refuse to fix it, and you can use arguments other than 'because I said so' to prove your point — this is criticism.

When you completely disregard all explanations why a certain feature was added, when you completely dismiss people pointing out that no, in fact other software has the same feature, and people do use it, then continue arguing ad nauseam — this is bullshit.

Got it? Good.

Now, you can be constructive and pay attention, and then we can have a conversation, or you can continue dismissing facts and go on living in an echo chamber. Your choice.
I really like this idea. I'm happy to hear about anything that has a chance at reducing political toxicity, but most ideas are simply ideas. This had already been implemented elsewhere in cities throughout the country as the article states and seems to have done momentum behind it.
Hahaha, also, 100% safety on 90% of trips sounds like the kinda thing Google would do, and 90% safety sounds like the kinda thing Uber would do.
They call all of their sources "the people".
It's not coming out yet, "the people said".
Kinda strange...
>US aggression towards China does not reclassify actions by China as nonaggressive.

It might well reclassify them as defense.

At worst, it puts them in perspective.

Else, it's like saying "someone fighting back a bully does not reclassify his actions as nonaggressive".

>*
China's actions regarding Taiwan are nonetheless absurd because it was basically a colonial possession of the Qing Dynasty, having not been part of China before the 17th century, so China has no serious "historic" right to claim it aside from nonbinding agreements between the US/RoC during WWII.*

So, the US would for example would easily give away California to Mexico, Hawaii or Puerto Rico to the natives, etc, if it came to some schism, right? After all, they're way younger possessions than a 17th century one.

(And it's not just about state ownership -- China itself was divided in many ways over the course of history. It's about common culture and ethnicity, not about it being a part of the "official state" since forever. Taiwanese are settlers from China, and even the previous local (aboriginals) had come from China).
What's frustrating for me is I don't know how much to trust the ratings agencies any more after their involvement in the 2008 financial crisis. Moody's in particular was fined over $800 million. Admittedly part of that is ignorance of how the agencies have performed overall, but that is such a strong black mark. Trust is one of those things that once lost is hard to regain.
I like this site and hadn't really read much from it - it's interesting how much it's been front paged over the last couple of weeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rachelbythebay.com
Oh this is really cool, makes me want to build one
>The US claim to the mainland US is not based on history but on de facto control, so history is not an injuction.

Well, de facto control is no moral claim.
The post says the UNSAFE_ versions will continue to work in V17
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This does bring up an interesting question though -- does self driving doom mass transit? The answer is no -- the real ultimate benefit of mass transit that taxis can never replicate is _thoroughput_ in a dense area. Articulated buses or light or heavy rail are the only way you could ever service an area like Manhattan, because even with high occupancy, using just sedans would require the building of like, literally 50 more highways. A single lane of train/bus can do the work of dozens of car lanes and nothing can change that physical law.

Self driving buses will reduce the price slightly though. And importantly, people today often drive because of the "last mile" problem. Driverless taxi on the other hand, may make it much easier to connect to mass transit seamlessly. You could even connect more than once. I could get from suburban Queens to the suburbs of Philadelphia by taking a taxi to the train station, a train that is faster than cars due to traffic, then another taxi on the other end, seamlessly. Actually I can do that today, it will just be cheaper, that's all. So more people will do it.
>A clever configuration of industrial lasers is set to finally make laser weapons practical

Finally? Really?
Why is this a good thing? Because star wars manchildren want to roleplay?
We're looking at terrible burns and very high chances of being blinded. These weapons should be banned from use on humans.
That's a good point! I definitely had my US centric blinders on when I posted that thought.
I'm not sure if it's meant to be sarcasm. One thing that comes to mind is a lot of shady public companies don't have an IPO, but instead do a reverse merger with a public shell or operating company. I don't know if companies with IPOs are always non-fraudulent, but I think the process goes along with a certain amount of scrutiny and conversely there are ways to avoid it.
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I'll add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faery_Tale_Adventure (1987) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_of_Lore (1988)
It's hard to say for sure but the released video[0] makes it seem like most human drivers wouldn't have avoided the pedestrian in time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO9iRUx5wmM
Seconded. What a breath of fresh air. He has both candidly admitted his mistakes, and apologized.
Too many companies and start-ups are drinking their own champagne and thinking their culture is awesome, or pretend it is because you need to lie to yourself to get out of bed and justify yourself why you committed voluntarily to slavery. Great culture starts with respect and appreciation for your co-worker's contributions. But fake respect and appreciation won't cut it.
https://www.uber.com/info/elevate/

Not a joke...
> The number of bugs found should be trending towards zero

Only if no new features are ever introduced.
Snapchat is building the same kind of API that just got Facebook into trouble
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And apparently they had Tamiko Thiel come and speak last year!
Palantir.net is not the same Palantir everyone is talking about here. Palantir.net seems to be a website consultancy for drupal-based sites.

Palantir.com doesn't seem to have anything referencing the source of the name.
Financial Independence = Living Expenses < Stream of Income From Assets You Own

That's it.

What you choose to do with your time, whether that be work, or whatever, does not enter into that equation. If you think MMM is lying about being financially independent, then that's a different story. But that he chooses to work has no bearing on his financial independence.
Duverger's Law is why FPTP elections are close.
Fuel and maintenance. Airline margins are already extremely thin.
Can you describe what this means?
The iOS 9 upgrade dialog was terrible. It would appear seemingly at random, often (but not always!) first thing in the morning as I was just unlocking my phone. Sometimes it would appear while I was in the middle of swiping around.

I was one mistaken tap away from accidentally upgrading to iOS 10 and losing access to my phone for the next hour or however long it took.

They finally got me. I'm on iOS 10 now. It's ok. One great feature is that the insistent iOS 11 upgrade dialog requires a passcode to actually do the upgrade, so it's very easy to avoid triggering it accidentally. It still pops up randomly though.
I believe Mark later used this to fund Canonical (it was worth $575 million). This is a good example of the debt based economy being flawed, including how it encouraged extracting more money from "consumers" (remember that for example IE did not support anything other than VeriSign, Thawte, and GTE CyberTrust until the then recently released NT4 SP6 and IE 5.01).
>While I'd rather there were no nuclear weapons

Counterpoint: nuclear weapons have forced countries to find alternatives to war. And have likely saved more lives as a result.
So we need to invent magic to make that happen. Because optimistacally that is at least 75 years away. Wide scale self driving cars is probably a good 20 years away.
I like my code to be safe.
My manager at work especially has the reverse attitude where the person who broke it is more significant than what broke/how we fixed it/ how to avoid it in the future. I have seen people get taunted for a bug they caused two years ago, a bug which didn't affect any revenue or was pretty easy to fix. And of course it still gets pointed out during appraisals.

Its a nightmare, because there's no room for experiment left anymore. Everyone just sticks to the template, afraid to do more than required, never deleting unused code etc. An attitude like this never ever helps!
Ooh, this is good. Part of it's covered under the name of "blameless post-mortems," but I don't remember searching for similar breakage, which is a great idea.
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Lucrative military/government contracts.
The UK's (gov.uk) is pretty modern. Also companies house (the uk company register) (beta.companieshouse.gov.uk).
My apologies if I came off harsh, I have a love-hate relationship with React.

> I totally see what you mean but this particular lifecycle is for a very rare use case.

It's not that rare. Consider a route change where some state needs to be preserved or, like the article mentions, a scroll position change (or reset!).

> You're right—but this solution doesn't solve async data fetching. It only works when the data is synchronously available, and per the post, in that case you can already use the constructor.[3]

I just want to point out how fundamentally flawed this is. The constructor is meant to initialize internal and initial state of objects. Making a data/network request in the constructor is beyond bizarre. In fact, the general consensus was that doing that sort of thing in the constructor is kind of an antipattern[1].

> The mentioned “suspense” API is both much less verbose and actually was designed with server rendering in mind. It would let us fetch data on the server and on the client and suspend rendering until the data is ready (and show a placeholder if it takes too long).

I'll have to check out suspense, but I feel that it's yet another API that reinvents the wheel. We'll see.

[1] https://discuss.reactjs.org/t/constructor-vs-componentwillmo...
If your content makes you significant money, you'll be willing to invest/pay. Return from even one piece of content will typically very comfortably pay off software pricing. My wife and her business partners run a completely bootstrapped startup and they do pay (often others rather than make content themselves) for wherever is critical for revenue generation.

If your content doesn't generate revenue or revenue generating leads, you have a hobby and need to decide whether to invest in the hobby.

Edit: in my last trip to China, I actually saw the mushrooming "mobile live video streaming influencer" industry and looking at their equipment (portable large battery powered klieg lights, audio gear etc.), it's pretty clear the influencers were investing.
Sure. Let's even leave aside the whole corpus of data you need to make a even remotely useful voice assistant.

But if you think there will be people willing to self host and maintain a whole voice assistant service, you're off your rocker.

It's just like saying "Why doesn't everyone just use Tor and PGP?" Because it's an enormous pain in the ass and really only accessible to technical users.
Not referring to this case, but to self driving vehicles in general..
I was watching a stream at one time (wish I had a link, but it was a Microsoft project), and they called that concept 'source open' (viewable but not not modifiable).
Sounds like it's past time to go job-shopping.
I think this is an important piece of organization culture. If the first reaction to problems is blame and punishment, issues are covered up. But if finding bugs and fixing them is considered valuable, there will be less issues in the long run.

Of course I write enough stupid bugs myself that I'm bound to think this way.
Hardcoding the exact certificate they expect, to prevent MITM attacks. Of course, not every MITM is malicious, as this item shows.
The argument you've started here isn't meaningful. The project we're talking about doesn't (AFAICT) declare any license, so the fact that it's not open source (in the usual sense of "released under an open-source license") hardly warrants arguing.

The "problematic" bit is that the project's page describes it as open-source, says "you can even make improvements", etc., though the project isn't actually licensed that way (or at all).
Not for currently available deep learning frameworks.
This is going to be the first commercial Waymo fleet.

It makes sense to have a premium brand to first introduce this.

'THIS IS THE FUTURE !' is what they want to promote.

While I think that their beetle-like test cars would be perfectly fine once the technology is everywhere, it makes sense to showcase it with premium cars.
The gig economy is just furthering the pain and competition that labor is facing while capitalists prevail because they own everything. Subsistence isn't really new.
That is a huge misconception. You can get to rural beauty with mass transit and/or a bicycle in metro NYC actually. My friends regularly organize a bike ride where we take the metro north to rural Putnam County then bike back the 30 some miles. You can go miles without seeing anyone but a tree and a snake...

You can take the Long Island Railroad to Montauk.

New Jersey Transit will take you to the shore.

There's a bus that will take you to Hunter Mountain to go skiing in the Catskills.

Look up maps of the above 3 train systems. In many cases you can take a train, then bike the last couple miles, and end up in a very very isolated place.

I can also go to places that feel isolated and rural like the Jamaica Bay, the Pelham Bay Park area, or Inwood Hill Park, but are technically not because they're so adjacent to developed areas. But they do feel locally rural if you avoid a view that lets you see the city, because there is a jump discontinuity in density.

Also, you can do traditional car trips and just rent a car for the weekend. City people do this crap all the time. You really think we don't get outdoors, huh?

Demand more from your transit systems!
Well you do have a choice when it’s raining. You could take the bus. I guess you don’t like the bus, but you do have a choice!
Show HN: Open source guide for avg Joe to gain back his privacy
I used to work with a designer who lived and breathed CorelDraw. She could do everything she needed to in it, and preferred it over Photoshop. The rest of the designers used Photoshop and there was always some pressure for her to switch, but she was productive and that's all that really mattered. She used to have a few digs at them about how quick it was to do something (or even possible), but all in good fun.
That is probably correct. But I am skeptical of even Waymo. I don't think even with Waymo's tech it's reasonable to expect any deployment of self driving cars on a meaningful scale in next 5-10 years (apart from some very controlled conditions like roads or lanes dedicated to self driving cars but that will require infrastructure build-up which will take decade or two).
When a car's engine fails on the freeway it doesn't fall out of the sky onto my head.
in which condition does Facebook asks for microphone access ?

On my install Facebook has zero permissions and remains useable. It is by design though.. they have already way too much data.

IIRC in P only a foreground app can access sensors, still, don't give this permission to facebook.
I commute on this part of the road every single day, and every day there are people whipping and and out of the two hov lanes as they approach the flyway fork. The model X was probably trying to make it into the flyway at the last minute or continue down the 101 part at the last moment, cut across thinking they had time, and fatally misjudged.

NTSB should look into this in the event that the person was under autopilot at the time, or if there was some flaw in the design of the model X that should have helped or mitigated the death of the driver. I would love to see better guidelines for tesla and for emt/fire staff as the road was shut down for about 6 hours while they tried to deal with the battery. Someone from tesla eventually came down and helped the fire dept deal with the fire...

So, sure, this is a tricky and maybe even dangerous fork, and caltrans will probably put in those dividers like the ones on southbound old middlefield road, but its okay and smart to look into the driver, the model x and the subsequent 6 hours of delay and blockage to improve safety across the board.
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The first use that came to mind for me was easily deployed and reusable missile defense systems. Not every country can spend billions on disposable anti-ballistic missiles, but lasers could eventually become affordable for most countries.
Thank you; I'll take a look.
The functionality is the same, it’s just being marked as dangerous to use. Your code is just as (un)safe as before.
This is a big enough market I'd be surprised if there isn't just a checkbox on the app "Do you want the taxi that responds to be one equipped with (0 / 1 / 2) child car seats?"
now this headline is more accurate
This is not geared towards privacy experts but for avg internet user that might do some of the things mentioned and get him more interested and find out more about how they can have their privacy back..
here's the code if you want to contribute https://github.com/surfer77/becominganonymous.com
> An inattentive driver killing a pedestrian isn't typically treated as criminal, as far as I know

They certainly should be treated like a criminal. They used a deadly weapon to kill someone because they didn’t respect their responsibility.
Interesting. I've not seen those before, but I wonder why they weren't able to make it automatically reset itself (providing it hadn't been damaged enough to prevent that).
A) no I don’t because it’s not “compiling” anything B) learn the meaning of things before you try to sound knowledgeable about them C) switching off Browserify sped up bundling by 200% on my development build and about 500% on my production build. You’re doing something wrong.
Maybe someone is conflating those things; I'm not.

I agree that doing 90% of possible trips could be a good business. But it's not the same thing as true autonomous taxis. And we don't have any idea what the actual percentage of achievable trips is. 20% would still be a good business if you pick the right 20%, but it's no threat to Lyft.
Ah, I was wondering how there could be so much velocity relative to a "lane divider".
We don't touch production. We don't upgrade. We are are a X million company we can't afford the risks.

These are some of the excuses they put up.

And then they sit 10 years or more with that bad stuff in there, build even uglier ways around it.

But the time comes to actually do something about. And what was once a one day job becomes "we will hire a consultancy firm to guide us".
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Facebook has over two billion users; it's network effects are insane. If you want to trade anecdotes, I have a chrome extension that allows me to track which Facebook friends are deleting their accounts, and exactly none have deleted their accounts since this whole thing started (500 friends from around the world, mostly university students).
Genuine question: when does startup stage end?
An IPO is an IPO, but let's not forget about the reverse mergers...
You're free to compile XNU yourself; it's just the part where you load it onto your iPhone that doesn't work.
Whatever you do, Maine, do not do the "top two primary vote getters", regardless of party, win (here in CA that leave us with deciding between two underwhelming Dem choices rather than competition from at least two parties --in other places it might leave you with two underwhelming repubs)

That said, we have that in SF and to me, it makes me diversify my vote, which in principle seems good, in practive, I "upvote" weak candidates too much.