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So if you use your computer to read the Guardian or NYT reporting on NSA surveillance, you can be charged with 'Unauthorized use of a computet?'

Or only primary source docs? Ok then, if so, when are they arrestint all those NYT, etc, reporters?
The metric shouldn't be #crashes but #innocent lives lost. I've never seen a study that accounts for all the influences to prove that autopilot and co. are better in that regard.
Regionalism is a word. Most countries suffer from it as well.
You can avoid interacting directly with Facebook pretty easily, but how do you stop them from tracking you on third party sites and maintaining a shadow profile for you? They are at least as evil as Google, even if you don’t have an account with them.
You could also make provisions to prevent that, as well.

If I cam granting use of my patent to you, I could request you put on a red fedora every day -- and if you fail to do so, then I will revoke you right to use the patent. You have to chose, put on that fedora, or don't use my patent. I guess you could chose to use the patent and be sued...

In any case, I am sure a document worded just right would either prevent that patent being used by a company who does not want to comply, or a lawsuit for violating the patent.

It could be simply put -- if you use this patent you may do so given the following.
1) You grant others the right to use your patents free of charge.
2) You don't sell your patents to any 3rd party.

I am sure there is some other things that might need to be covered.
The value prop is the same for them as it is for any other company choosing a single cloud: it unlocks a ton of services and basic building blocks which empowers and speeds up software development, as well as providing fundamental stuff like access control and auditing.

The concern over vendor lock-in and pricing is one that gets thrown around often, but doesn't really make sense to me. When has Amazon, Microsoft, et al gouged one of their larger customers in the past? Why would they do that when it would destroy their reputation and scare away business?

A large customer working with a large company is like any other negotiation, both have leverage and there isn't any feasible scenario where Amazon or Microsoft go completely crazy and start gouging their customers for some short-term gain.
Sure, there is discrimination everywhere. Basically, lots and lots and lots of people suck. Most people would not argue that. But this thread is about discrimination in China.

I should mention that you should feel free to post another article about discrimination in the US if you like.
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It'd be slightly amusing to see the Pentagon work Amazon over on negotiations like Amazon worked cities over on HQ2. Amazon ran into an entity that was larger than itself.
That's a great point. My only question is, would software still be written mostly in English if Fairchild Semiconductor had been located in Stuttgart?

It may be so, given that English had become the lingua franca of what was after WWII called the first world for political rather than technological reasons.
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They generally reduce their assist and completely cut out at 28 to 30km/hour, so to actually cycle 30km/hour takes as much effort as it would on a normal bicycle.

Most Dutch cycle at about 25km/hour (whether or not electric) - those cyclists that easily do 30 on normal city bikes are probably the last generation that will switch to e-bikes.
> Police were also able to bypass encryption on the suspect’s CyberPowerPC, where they discovered an extension app for LastPass.

Mentioning the brand of CyberPowerPC here is irrelevant in my opinion. Last I checked, they only really make cases and do fancy lighting on custom builds which are generally used for gaming and running Windows.

It would have been more relevant to say Windows PC, or whatever OS the PC was running.

But I suppose it's a bit much to expect Forbes writers to be in tune with this, and the police might not have given more details beyond the brand name.
Betancourt's survey is at least as good, and more up to date.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.02434.pdf
I don't know how your impression could be more wrong; I ride my bike to work in NYC every day. I've literally said as much in many of my comments here, and talked about my personal experiences. You have responded to some of these comments.
> Agreeing that relevance and importance are important isn't political.

Sure, but that seems to be nearly a meaningless statement. I bet we would have disagreements about what is happening around the world that is important.
indeed r >> g

and the velocity of money is much slower now than it was pre-GFC. And it if wasn't, Paulson would have made almost as much on his long gold trade as he did on his short housing market trade.
All that /plus/ security cameras. My neighbor just got a Nest outdoor camera that necessarily captures part of my driveway and front yard. That felt kinda creepy but, hey, security is good? (they had gotten burgled recently)

And then a few days later he off-handedly commented about the time I left for work that morning.... what a gross feeling.
What's your standard for AGI? Passing the Turing test?

I would also be willing to bet a lot that will happen within 30 years.
No, and it's unlikely to change given you have small armies of wannabe developers neighboring countries willing to work for a pittance and company owners that are too technically unsophisticated to know the difference. Hell, you can't even get a decent wage in London.
> 1. In most responsible news organizations, there is a significant firewall between advertising and news. In two places I worked, the sales people weren't even allowed to go into the newsroom.

Editor: "So your last screed about Facebook got a ton of clicks and shares, can you do another?"

Tell me more about that firewall. In modern news orgs, you're selling the words next to the content, not the readership.

> 2. News organizations are not IT departments. A reporter is not involved in how a web site is built, or what goes on behind the scenes. There are different people in different departments for that.

Journalists are inquisitive, intellectually curious types. You have to call into question the ethics of someone prepared to write about something they have a good idea that their own company engages in.

> 3. Just because a newspaper does something bad with its web site does not make what happens at Facebook/Google/etc... any less bad. SV needs to get over the whole "But Bobby jumped off the bridge, too!" mentality.

This is just tu quoque. It's not exonerating Facebook at all (though Facebook typically have a deterministic data set to work with, which reduces the kind of shady practices they need to engage in with third party data sets), it's merely saying that you don't get a free pass on calling this kind of stuff out if you're engaging in the same kind of data gathering yourself.
I want to make a potentially contentious point.

If you ever listen to Thiel/Weinstein talk about the current lack of growth in much of the sciences, you may be inclined to believe that we are woefully overcautious in our medical experimentation currently. The FDA does a critical job, but many believe (including myself) that it is too overoptimized for avoiding bad headlines. The balance of risk is perhaps not appropriately there.

When you look at China, there exists a number of more wild experiments. Sean Parker looked at the CRISPR twins as a "Sputnik" moment in science. While that procedure has numerous valid criticisms, how can we in the west constructively move towards accepting more risk to promote more innovation?

I believe that China has a larger appetite for more risk in science, but they may not have a culture/politics that optimizes for "Screw the established thought! I have this new crazy idea!" kind of mentality which is potentially integral for medical advancement.

How can the west promote further scientific innovation to break out of this stagnating hump? No political party is currently having this discussion. Republicans may be more likely to deregulate and get out of the way, but simultaneously want to defund the NIH and NSF (critical sources of funding for basic research). Democrats may be more willing to spend on research, but do not consider the threat that regulations can have on innovation (ex. Company tries something innovative, something goes wrong, democrats may easily mark it into the narrative of corporate greed experimenting on patients. Bernie Sanders was one of the few senators who voted against the 21st century cures act).

How can the west move forward?
Humans fail in unpredictable ways all the time. Look at the cases of people using vehicles as a weapon of terrorism. How are we supposed to predict that?

Yeah, we can go back and investigate the person's life and say "see, they had a history of browsing extremist websites, making bigoted comments, suicidal thoughts, etc." The problem is that this description fits a very large group of people, compared to the subgroup which actually carry out the attacks.

So while it is true that we may have difficulty (or it may even be impossible) auditing a self driving car after the fact, it should not be any more comforting to know that human failure can be explained after the fact, given that the human failure was not predicted beforehand.
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He could sell to Berkshire Hathaway, easily.
We have intersections like this in NYC. Look at 8th and 9th Avenues in Chelsea for one example. There are separate phases for bikes going straight and vehicles turning left across them.
Just like your credit report and score, and that's probably more meaningful.
I still do. Since 1994 I have been Mac only and feeding my family. Some work situations I had to use Windows though.

I dropped my MacBook Pro going through airport security 2 years ago and it still runs perfectly just with some dents. I recently bought a 32gb model and love it.

The pain points now are the software instability and general lack of polish. Also I am beginning to feel like Apple just doesn’t care about use lowly folks who believed in them when they were close to being extinct. They say they care at every WWDC but I’m still waiting for them to show it. I finally upgraded to 10.14 last week and it bricked my machine and I have to do an internet restore which took 15 hours to get back to a point I could reinstall my apps and data. The reason? APFS issues when blasting back from a disk image I keep with my stuff installed and ready to go. The Genius Bar wanted to replace my touchbar citing that as the issue for a disk error.....

Overall I’m still hanging in there but I have started working my daily tasks on an old Linux laptop and I’m very happy. Time will tell.
>It seems to me that self-driving cars can't be just as safe as the status quo, but have to be far far better. It's an unreasonable need, but human nature.

What would be the point of self-driving cars which were no safer than the status quo? That's just removing freedom from drivers and adding more complexity to infrastructure for no added benefit.

It's also exactly the narrative that proponents of self-driving cars have been driving (pun intended), self-driving cars would eliminate all, if not nearly all, accidents and fatalities.
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js

Search “jQuery” in there, first result will be the copyright comment plus the version.
Correct me if I am wrong, but it sounds like you are asking me if I think changing voting results is equivalent to attempting to influence voters?

No, I do not think those are remotely equivalent.
I was running WebOS on the HP TouchPad. And it was much more pleasant to use than Android on tablets at the time. I meant to the responsiveness from scrolling and swiping through pages.
Probably could be done but it would require significant reengineering because it introduces new failure modes. Best approach is what everybody else does: Assume the AoA sensor can fail and design the software accordingly. Boeing didn't do that and the results were fatal.
Can we switch the link to MIT technology review?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613277/chinese-scientists...

I love futurism.com's enthusiasm but they are not often too substantive.
Most expats I know work there under contract at least here in the UK I see a lot of £1200-2000 a day contracts for Singapore being advertised especially for security/fintech roles.

Unless you are being relocated you usually don’t want to work for a local firm unless you are contracting.
For comparison, Amazon supports up to 16TB in their basic service, with an $80 flat handling fee per storage device and then $2.50 per data loading hour. Since they support 2.5"/3.5" SATA and external eSATA & USB 2/3.0 interfaces and it's a pure sequential transfer, it's not much trouble to get at least close to maximum sequential, which even for decent spinning rust should allow a good half TB an hour at least. I've never tried an SSD so I'm not sure if they can saturate 6 Gbps, but as even a 32 hour transfer of 16TB would only be another +$80 it may not be generally relevant anyway.

Amazon's equivalent to B2 Fireball is "AWS Snowball" (amusingly enough, not sure if there is a bit of fun name riffing between the two here), which is a service fee of $200/50TB and $250/80TB device, any onsite days after the first 10 at $15/day.

It's interesting how the pricing mix is on this feature though. Amazon offers lower potential ingress pricing depending on your use, though notably if you kept the Snowball a whole month the pricing would get very close to the Fireball (+20 days @$15/day brings the price to $500/$550 respectively, though the former with 20TB less and the latter with 10TB more).

Backblaze and Google are both much cheaper to get data out of though, Amazon's Glacier and descendent services remain very much deep freeze focused.
I really don’t get what the purpose of trying to make this the Oppression Olympics is. That one group is oppressed does not minimize another group’s oppression.
Looks like investors were very hungry for this one and the high jump on the first date indicates that they are viewing Pagerduty in the same market segment as MongoDB and Twilio. Same set of customers, expanding market as each of those customers increase their server foot print.

Also with the 50% pop looks like investors were ready to give them future growth so the company definitely left money on the table with their IPO pricing.

But none the less amazing IPO. Hopefully stock stays in the range on Friday.
> Why spend public money, and inconvenience drivers in the process, for their sake?

Because the cyclists, too, are part of the public? It's not like that public money is solely sourced from automobile drivers. Many people I know who live and work and pay taxes in Atlanta cycle and drive, depending on where they're going. Are you really suggesting auto-drivers are more important citizens whose convenience matters more than the safety of others? Should Atlanta also start de-prioritizing safe sidewalks and crosswalks so people who are walking all over Midtown and downtown don't inconvenience the drivers? Suggesting the many people who aren't traveling along on 4 or more wheels should be ignored for the sake of convenience to those who are seems awfully silly.
> I don’t mean that it’s physically impossible. I mean that it would have created an enormous international incident if the CIA abducted Assange without the cooperation of the Swedish Police, or if the Swedish Police had collaborated with the CIA to disappear a suspect in an ongoing criminal investigation. Take a look at the case of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery in 2006. The rendition of two Egyptians that no-one has heard of caused enough of a diplomatic incident that Sweden stopped CIA rendition flights.

I mean... it wasn't all that bad in the Agiza and al-Zery case for Sweden. No heads rolled in the Swedish government over the matter. And there were literally Swedish personnel assisting.

Do you have any evidence that Sweden has stopped allowing rendition flights?
The electric assist on e-Citibikes here in NYC diminishes with speed and cuts out completely at around 15 mph. Above that speed they're just a heavier normal Citibike. I know because I've enjoyed pushing these things to their limits.

There are many different types of e-bikes, and you're probably thinking of what are effective electric mopeds, with big batteries and engines and a throttle control. Those certainly go very fast. They're also not legal in many places, including here in NYC, and aren't necessarily what people mean when they're talking about e-bikes; that's usually referring to pedal-assist.
And his pretext was also that he'd face the death penalty in the US, which is a bit absurd. Chelsea Manning was his co-conspirator and look what she got. She didn't get a death sentence, she got government funded gender reassignment surgery, 35 years which Obama commuted down to 7 years, and contempt of court for refusing a direct court order to appear. Not great, but neither is leaking droves of classified information she was sworn to protect.
I see that graphic a lot, but it's not a very useful one, because it ignores residential patterns. Most people can't use a bike. So if you displace one car, you're not going to replace it with one bike, much less than 5 that would otherwise fit in the same space.

The efficiency question is: what minimizes the amount of collective time people spend getting where they need to go. Bike infrastructure might actually make that worse, slowing down the majority for the sake of a tiny minority that can use a bike to get where they're going.
Better than AndroidTV?

On my nexus player I was able to install Kodi, which I love for all the formats it supports. Roku doesn't support nearly as many formats.
There's nothing "short-term" about having the entire Department of Defense locked to your services. Our government still runs systems from decades ago.
>we want, or rather demand government to be that way

This is something so many people miss. So much of the endless red tape is a direct result of public concern over wasting taxpayer dollars. The irony of the situation is the government would be able to save a lot of money if taxpayers stopped caring about where their money was going.
But if it helps the political establishment that's in power then they can just not enforce the laws or change the laws to make it legal for them... everybody (that is them) wins!
Ignorance of rules seem to be part of the issue. Using bike lanes (in Cambridge!), I've had turning drivers honk or yell nasty things at intersections as I went straight through, not knowing they are required to yield. Drivers are trained to be forgiving to pedestrians and the crazy jay-walking that happens in Boston, but still treat bikes like aberrations.

I drive as well, and admit it felt very unnatural at first at check behind me for bikes when turning right.
Discovered a cookie-persisted version of this at a large multi-national (Global Fortune 100). It affected almost all of their SSO pages. They all had multiple XSS issues, and then they read from a cookie and then wrote that value to the page inside some Javascript(!), so I was able to persist the XSS on the user's machine indefinitely (until they cleared their cookies).

The result was the ability to capture user credentials at any of their login portals, and the "infection" mechanism would have just been the victim clicking on a link to one of their login portals.

The company has a bug bounty that awards "schwag", which I knew going in. So now I have two of the same really dumb t-shirts.
I didn't ask what language you would use. I asked what you would do in C++, given you're criticizing people for writing such code in the language. If you're put so much thought into this problem like you claim then surely you must have a better alternative in mind.
> trying to crack a system, which has nothing to do with hacking, properly understood

As much as I'd like that distinction to be made, I think that boat sailed a long time ago. I think the public has a clearer distinction between white/gray/black hat hackers than between hackers/crackers.
The title of the article reveals a lot about the biases at play here. "Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind..." - keyword 'the'. She isn't 'the' computer scientist behind it, she is 'a' computer scientist behind it. If it were merely a case of putting an interesting person with likable facial features at the heart of the story the news articles' titles and descriptions could actually be accurate. In actuality we have misplaced attribution caused by the biases of the news media. Whether they're political or not, its easy to see through them and it adds an unnecessary off-note to the otherwise interesting scientific achievement.

EDIT: it looks like the title of the article has either changed or SEO causes some to see different titles than others. Regardless my initial comment should still be valid.
I feel like they provided excellent value on my 2013 MBP, but if it broke I wouldn't buy any of their machines.

The way they have handled their keyboard design problem, bent iPads, too-short display cables etc is simply deceitful and unethical, that makes me less interested in dealing with them. I don't want to argue about hardware flaw repairs again and again over the life of a machine while it periodically disappears for a couple weeks until Apple finds legal justification to stop free keyboard repairs.

But mostly it seems like the Mac has come to a grinding halt. Four years to do a CPU bump on the Mini, two years for a CPU bump on the iMac, five years and counting for the Mac Pro. Rumor has it they maybe can show a prototype in a few months of the 2014 Mac Pro in anticipation of a 2020ish release lol.

We'll never know for sure, but they probably invest more on evading taxes than continued Mac development.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey....
For me personaly its hard to avoid FB. All my friends talk via messenger and they invite me to events using FB. I can use DDG, Fastmail and Firefox, but I cant so easily ditch FB
If a pilot goes anywhere near a stall on a normal commercial flight then they have fucked something up.

MCAS is only required to maintain a positive slope to AoA - stick force curve.

MCAS resulted in 2 crashes because the implementation was completely brain dead. Not because the aircraft is impossible to fly without it.
Do we want to save it as it is?
I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic but this only works in specific cities. Lots of cities have issues with sprawl, weather, lack of bike lanes, or even a place to lock your bike. It's also extremely difficult to do with a young family.
If almost all commuters are car drivers, then there won't be many bikes buzzing around inconveniencing them. And if there are enough bikes to inconvenience the drivers, then there are enough to justify investing in their own infrastructure.
The policy on Hacker News, according to their guidelines, is they use the original article title, unless there's a good reason to change it.
They probably don't delete your profile, but keep it with a "deleted" flag. I'd still recommend getting rid of it. It reduces the noise in your life, and while you will lose touch with a few people, most of the ones who matter will email you.
Please, tell me again why Firefox is not evil and respect their users.
I'm suggesting that it's not right to inconvenience the majority (drivers), for the sake of a relatively privileged minority (folks who can afford to live within cycling distance of their jobs downtown).
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> Eastern District of Virginia

As expected
Exactly, this is also a legal one. I'm curious what happens when we get human driven cars crashing into auto piloted. Are we going to have an assumption of guilt on the human or the auto or will it actually be balanced.
Yeah, it's sort of like conflating asking for money with stealing... they may result in the same outcome, but result from extremely different actions.