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Extremely exceptional access only, in cases where thousands of people's lives could be at stake or millions. Since we can't create a fully unbreakable software/hardware security systems anyway, if ever, companies can use technology + psychology. Unintentionally create an extremely difficult to find bug that requires extremely talented engineers and large hardware resources to break, then unintentionally share it with at most discreet way probably just verbally to very few trusted 3rd parties. And it is not officially approved by the top management or even knows about it. We don't live in a perfect world and we don't have a perfect solution. JUST COMMENTS, NOT A SUGGESTION!
Another good book is The Bread Baker's Apprentice by Peter Reinhart. If you're also into homemade pizza, his book American Pie is also great.
Because nothing helps solve an intractable problem better than poorly defined outrage right?

"Hey I'm really mad that I'm gonna die! Someone do something about this!"

Wow you mean this whole time you didn't want to die. What an absolutely shocking revelation. That changes everything.
By Pivoting, Major Tech Companies Could Benefit from Increased Data Regulation
Why couldn't they get the sanitized archive they wanted with robots.txt, but just excluding the specific URLs they wanted excluded in robots.txt?
H&R Block is the egregious example, with their lobbying against making tax returns simpler for taxpayers, their customers.
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The Tesla in the recent accident you reference did not “suddenly steer into” the divider. As other owners have since shown, the car centered itself between what it interpreted as lane markers marking a lane but which were actually two outside markers diverging as the highway split.

Edit: while the end result of both “steered into” and “failed to avoid” an obstacle are the same, the method is very different. If a car suddenly steers into an obstacle, an attentive driver might not be able to react quickly enough to avoid it, whereas driving straight into something the car fails to see is very unlikely with an attentive driver.
Last discussion of Briar on HN (9 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14825019
Please change link to the BBC story[0] this Jalopnik article links to, as this is riddled with errors.

"Note that this took place in England, so the left-hand side is the driver side"

No, in UK we drive on the left, the driver side is the right of the car.

He was not banned from the M1, but banned from driving for 18 months. ie he got his driving licence suspended.

Neither does one pay the Crown Prosecution (a clue to their role) Services (also CPS is Crown Prosecution Service singular) one's fine.

That's enough proof reading :)

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-43934504
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Document: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court 2017 Annual Report
I see a mix of good and bad arguments here.

I believe the story of Bon-Ton and Herberger's being over-leveraged. It's happened to a lot of retailers lately (Toys R Us for example). And I'm sympathetic to his claim that they "had a fragile business model, one that was far too responsive to investors far beyond our little city limits."

But a few things undermine his argument:

1. He makes a passing reference to Herberger's having "cheaper clothes" compared to the downtown stores, but that's not really doing justice to the fact that the downtown stores went out of business because the local people preferred the prices and products at Herberger's. No one issued an edict saying "there shall be no more mom and pop stores downtown."

2. He complains about Walmart, Target, etc. being "in the neighboring city". But if you look on Google maps, the distance from downtown Brainerd to Walmart is 3 miles. A 7 minute drive. That is not a major inconvenience for residents. It sounds more like sour grapes from a city planner who resents the commercial taxes going to Baxter instead of Brainerd.

3. He mentions the sewer, water, and roads that were built to support the mall location, without identifying who paid for them. Was it the town, or the developer? I'm worried he's trying to puff up his argument by being vague about this.
Automating the Game of Cricket with Deep Learning
The pizza looks great. Do you have a high temperature oven?
Meh, my local mall is failing because they built a different local mall that was newer, cleaner, felt brighter and all the stores that could find the money to sign a new lease moved to that one.

Then they built another mall didn't put a roof over it and called it a shopping destination...
> I really hope Gates gets nominated for a Nobel Prize. He deserves it.

For creating a monopoly and setting back computer science and computing by decades? For sheltering his billions from taxes in a family controlled charity?

It's amazing what tens of millions in PR spending/campaign can do for a billionaire's reputation. There are people who actually believe bill gates is a good guy.

In 30 years, zuckerburg will retire, shelter his money in a family controlled "charity" and hire a top notch PR firm and the naive people will demand he be proclaimed a saint.
Sounds like they didn't want to be too offensive towards Christians and risk even more conservative backlash.

For a little context, the Republicans are currently trying to kill PBS.
I've seen something similar at other institutions.

The School of Engineering, in this case, is trying to teach something more than just domain knowledge about engineering disciplines. The goal is to take those "18 year-old polyglots" and turn them into world-class problem solvers.

You see this is every elite educational program. Mathematics at Chicago. Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. Engineering at MIT. Their programs have a difference in kind, and are very intentionally not built for "the average college student".

It's good that there's an alternative path within the same institution for those students who need to focus their efforts on baseline competence. But it's also good that strong programs expect more out of their students.
200k == about 11600 take home a month after taxes and insurance

Monthly
Rent : 3300 ( east bay 45 minute train ride into SF)

Utlities : 350

BART riding : 260

BART parking : 60-100

or Drive to SF and Car parking $500 ( instead of the 360 BART )

Groceries : 1400 ( 2 teenage boys eat )

Car payments + insurance : 800 ( 2 cars )

renters insurance : 120

Clothing : 300 ( teenagers outgrow stuff fast )

Cell phones : 300

6930 so far... no savings, vacations, entertainment or misc taken out

4670/4 = 1167 per person a month / 4 is 291 a week per person left for savings vacation misc and entertainment

1 family outing in the bay will run $300 to $ 500 easily

BTW to buy a house you typically had to come in with an offer 10-25% over ask and typically a full cash offer would get the house. Good luck buying a house with a mortgage ( the house across the street, in the east bay, went for 699k and it was only 900 sq ft )
Similar to this experiment, where people continue to follow an order even after the original group members have left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keBh_LK5Ha4
How technology firms keep track of journalists
A lot of people are correct in stating that sales reps are there to find the path to the most sales (not just today, but tomorrow as well), and that path is learn as much as possible about your use case, company, and people. That provides a path to how they can upsell tomorrow.

I know you are talking about hardware, but let me offer some perspective on the sales side when it comes to software sales. The job of the sales rep is also to prevent wasting the time of the sales and technical PreSales teams. They do that by qualifying a sales opportunity.

I've seen plenty of situations where "Can you just give us a trial or single license of your product" turns into A) A massive drain of time as the customer basically has the sales team chase a "We liked the trial, but there are a few points we need help with before we make a bigger purchase" and it turns out after a lot of work that the software wasn't a fit in the first place. B) The customer doesn't really have the skillset to utilize the software they are trialing so they get a bad impression. Then they badmouth the software internally so other teams avoid it as well without even evaluating it. C) The customer is actually looking for free services but they don't realize it (or worse, they do and are malicious about it), so their desire for a software solution ends up being them getting free services/consultants.

The sales qualifications process, in theory, prevents these kinds of situations. However, I would agree 100% that there are situations where you should just let the customer put in a credit card number and buy what they want. Especially if a competitor lets you do that. I worked in company that had a product that got hammered in the market because they only entertained large enterprise deals and the main competitor started letting people buy a monthly license with a credit card on the website.
What if the proposal is changed so that the keys do not need to be kept forever? What if Apple is allowed (or even required) to publicize the private key(s) after, say, 10 years?
The M1 is a motorway. That means there's normally 3 lanes (but I think 4 here) and a hard shoulder, traffic travelling at 70 mph (if they're obeying the speed limit), and no stopping allowed.

I agree the reminder needs to be stronger, but it's not possible to safely slow or stop on English motorways.

Here's the road on Google maps: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.793955,-0.4119246,3a,75y,1...

I don't know which direction he was travelling.
> Surely you shouldn't need to struggle in the dark so much to learn.

You have it all wrong, IMO. Successfully clawing their way out of the dark is by far the most important skill they're learning.
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You're splitting hairs on the definition of "suddenly". It only took a couple seconds for the Tesla to go off the main road's path and drive straight into the divider.
Two things:

1. Clocks don't use a lot of power. Think of a pendulum: there's a lot of movement but the energy constantly swings between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Although there's lots of movement, the device uses very little energy. Similarly, a clock circuit (called an oscillator) barely uses any electricity: it mostly "Swings" energy back and forth between an inverter and a capacitor.

2. Distributing a clock over a long distance similarly uses very little power (!!) due to transmission line theory. You can effectively use the parasitic capacitance in wires themselves to effectively do this pendulum effect for efficient long-distance transmission of clocks. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_line

This gif shows an animation of the pendulum effect in a longer-transmission line: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Transmis...

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I guess things could be de-sync'd for more efficiency. But your question is kind of like "Well, can't we get rid of V-Tables in C++ to make branch-prediction more efficient??"

I mean, we can. But V-Tables / Polymorphism really doesn't take a lot of time. We only do that if the performance gain really matters.
The price they quoted was for a disc with a valid license. His discs didn't have licenses, so they were worth a few cents apiece.
Yeah, let's pay for research using leaves from your magic money tree.
Whenever I find an application hosted on SourceForge, I assume it is abandoned.
You started a wretched political/national flamewar in this thread and then heaped fuel on it to keep it going. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again.

You really violated the site rules quite egregiously here. Other commenters did too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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1) regarding BUNCH: the nonces are random and hence there will be as many as there are phones drawn from suitably large n-bit space, but Apple does not need a local copy of the nonces, if the government requests a decryption and Apple agrees, it will decrypt and find the user pass code and the irrelevant nonce.

2) "and force anyone who wanted to look them up to do it physically, in person, with paper" I dont understand your proposal? If the government wants to decrypt a phone, they should come to Apple in person with what paper? How do you insure that everyone knows when a phone is audited? (Ozzie's proposal or what we read of it in the article does not adress insuring the populace finds out whenever a phone is decrypted). In your scenario the well observed building is operated by Apple or by the populace?
You don’t need intelligentsia. You’ve got the municipal governments (elected with 25% turnout) who have banned building a house on less than 1/3 of an acre or mixing retail and commercial.
It's a way to structure a discussion. Because philosophy is a pretty wide field, clarifying that you're talking about Rousseau's concept of human nature is simply a way to indicate that you're talking about a particular school or flavour of thought, without having to recite the entire body of work. Classification is always useful, not just in philosophy. It's no different from classifying mathematical fields as 'number theory' or 'algebra', just to indicate what frame of mind you're in when you talk about a problem.
University College London (UCL) Severs Ties with IOTA Foundation
Homeostasis means that the system is stable even though is varies slightly. It doesn't mean that the system is completely frozen like a rock.
I'm not sure Cupertino is a good example, because until the 1960s it was all orchards and fields, and the entire town was built in blocks of subdivisions like your usual checkerboard suburb like Henderson or Chandler. Sunnyvale was the closest real town, with a real main street, a train station, and businesses.

Anyone can build 'fake' downtowns. They sort of work too. That's not the issue here at all, though. Cupertino had no commercial core that was left to decline.
I think it's a thing about how you like your life. Are you looking for an exact taste every time or do you want to be surprised now and then? What I have seen from Germans, they are very routine-bound and don't like it if it's out of sync. Swedes are a bit looser but still want the normal bland stuff, no exotic tastes. However this seems to change slowly thanks to lots of baking/cooking programs on the telly the last 30 years.
Progressives love regulation mainly because that's the only way for outsiders to get a voice in capitalist institutions which are run by a small minority that can cause extreme externalities on the surrounding community and their employees for their own benefit. One alternative solution to regulation is to let the employees and surrounding communities participate in the management of the business. This would lead to fewer externalities and hence, in some cases, less regulation.
All: the flamewars that raged in this thread are bannable offenses on HN. It's no excuse that the article was bait; the thing to do was to flag it and move on, as others fortunately did.

We're not going to let HN go down in the flames and fumes of nationalistic battles. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do that. Do this instead: when someone provokes you with an egregious comment, flag it (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and/or email us at hn@ycombinator.com to be sure to get moderator attention. Don't reply, and especially don't reply aggressively.

In other words, call the fire department, don't pour fuel, and don't start fires of your own. Sounds easy, but it's not, because it requires tolerating the burn of annoyance inside oneself instead of taking it out on the commons. That's actually what tolerance means. It's a physical process, just like any structure can tolerate a certain load before snapping. Containing this energy does not feel good, but it's the capacity we all need to build if if we want this community to survive as a place for curiosity.
Would your professor have espoused the same actions were the costs of medical payments for harmed employees greater than the profits to shareholders? I doubt it.

The purpose of a business model is to simplify the truth. Actual implementation is up to you. In any business, people get hurt and profits may be used to compensate them or may be re-invested into the business to reduce the harms. By quitting business you unfortunately removed a more measured business graduate from the pool. Had you stayed, corporate policy today might be more enlightened a bit.

BTW sounds more like "British Victorian-era capitalism" than "modern day American capitalism."
a la checkers on bigger board.
In that case - if you are not - congrats! Seems like you ended up in well organized places :)
I'd prefer dropping wealth distribution from the discussion and focus not because I disagree with it, but because 1. I'm already sold, 2. it's trivially implemented (technically if not politically), and 3. it tends, as evidenced here in another thread, to generate predictable and unproductive discussion.

Actually, I'll go a step or two further and suggest that a mix of rentier taxes (land and other monopolistic elements) and income supports (UBI, living minimum wage, additional targeted support as needed), workplace and labour protections, collective bargaining, are almost certainly required.

UBI without LVT merely pumps wages to landlords. Similar further arguments extend to otther elements above.

But that leaves us with the fundamental issue remaining: natural clustering tendencies of many economic activitties, particularly dematerialised ones ("informattion work") tend toward clusteering (where skills are scarce) or outsourcing to the lowest-wage centre (where skill is automated away). All other areas are effectively dead zones.

(In-person services, repair, and construction remain, but these are poorly-scaling, low-profit sectors.)

That's the dynamic I see as needing addressing. And UBI + LVT don't get you there, that I see.

Any insights there?
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The more false positives they have, the more false negatives they're going to have and that's where it becomes an issue.
Copernicus was employed by the Catholic Church, but did not publish until March of 1543 - and he died in May 1543. So yes, he was employed by the church and openly promoted heliocentrism for less than two months and then died.
There has been a big resurgence in Go interest after AlphaGo beat the world champion last year. That made a lot of headlines, and brought in a lot of interest.

The AlphaGo documentary on Netflix is worth watching, if you have an interest in Go, or AI.
The top MBA programs require that applicants have at least 4 years of work experience.
Nobody disagrees that he is profiting. But he is only profiting off the fact that Microsoft makes it very difficult for you to re-install software that you already have a license for, particularly if you didn't save your OEM install disk.

The actual moral crime here is that Microsoft profits off the fact that users don't know they still own the original license they purchased, and/or there is a huge hassle in getting a new OEM disk. If Microsoft wasn't doing this then there would be no "black market" for it.
Every adult has some discipline, what we often lack is practice. Discipline is not a binary skill, there are levels - at minimum, most adults know not to impulsively buy candy when checking out at a store. Leveling up is just a matter of exercising discipline to ignore greater impulses.

Start by calibrating yourself. Where do you already have discipline? Going to work every day at the same time? Paying bills as soon as they arrive? Or maybe something harder, like cooking healthy meals every other day, going to the gym, or practicing an instrument?

Understand your level, then find something just a little harder. Ideally, it should be a recurring task which you recognize requires discipline (ie something you want to have done, but don't look forward to doing). Find that task, then do it. Keep doing it until you can effortlessly climb over that mental barrier. Then, continue doing it while challenging yourself with something harder.

As someone with ADD, it took a long time for me to become disciplined. I started out by going to the gym every other day, eventually working up to climbing mountains, learning instruments, and becoming one of the most organized people at work (while still being ADD).

It's not easy. Of course not, discipline is the skill of doing hard things despite the difficulty. But if you're looking for "a training regimen with benefits that transfer to the rest of one's life" - this is it. Discipline is a higher-order skill that transfers to learning or doing everything else.
Sure, but warehouses are placed such that they can revert to open fields rather than leaving craters in city centers.
It sounds like you want to be able to generate language with the same basic meaning as the original but without whatever bias was there.

I'd recommend starting by trying to detect the presence of the bias first. Language generation is a very difficult problem in general and this is an especially difficult instance of it. Even detecting bias will be challenging because of how subtle a phenomenon it is, but it's much more tractable than rewriting what was said to not include the detected bias.
> For sheltering his billions from taxes in a family controlled charity?

Yes, this is the part I'm happy about the most. Money is better spent by him than by the government.
> His discs didn't have licenses

That is where you're wrong. Read the docket, better yet here is a screenshot from the demonstration that the discs had keys replicated from original Dell recovery discs:

https://imgur.com/3eHjPjO

Moreover, "so they were worth a few cents apiece." - The value of financial damage (especially in this case) matters only towards deciding the restitution amount. They also have a cut-off, above which the crime is considered to be under federal jurisdiction which wouldn't have mattered in this case since the amount was obviously above the cut-off and the crime was of inter-state nature.
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You write "Let's see if she renounces her citizenship anytime soon and put her money where her mouth is."

There's a long tradition of people placing absurd requirements on Americans who criticize American culture.

During the Vietnam War, anti-war protesters who (correctly, with the retrospective understanding of history) criticized the US involvement in SE Asia, and were told "America, love it or leave it."

Now we have someone who did leave, and so the demand gets even more absurd. "American, love it or leave it and renounce citizenship."

Suppose she did spend the time and ~$3,000 to renounce US citizenship.

Would it really change your mind?

What I've seen in the forums which discuss renunciation is that there become new attacks, with the most common that it was done to cheat on paying taxes.

I say it's absurd because it's hard to move away from the country where one was born and grew up. She's almost certainly got more skin in the game than you do. Since you don't seem to have any skin in the game, and you thinking having skin is important, why should we listen to you?
That's just one of the reasons why some intermediate levels of autonomous driving are scary.

Drivers get a false sense of safety and stop paying attention. This case is just one extreme example, but I'm sure that many of the drivers that stay in their seat are just as absent as this guy.
They’re not necessarily lies. I usually assume myths are faithful transcriptions of actual historical events, just stylized in order to aid in their retelling.