Worldwide probably...

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/01/yep-gasoline-l...

Tl;dr Two researchers claim they can use convolutional neural networks to pick criminals from pictures.

For the criminals they use pictures from government id cards. For non-criminals they searched the internet for random pictures.

These bozos just trained CNN to pick government id photos.

This is scary stuff because police are not very technically savvy and use biased scoring systems already[0].

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...

All of the photos in the paper, both "criminals" and "non-criminals" are from government ids. Though as the article mentions, in the pictured example all the "non-criminals" are wearing collared shirts.

This reeks real hard of overfitting. 2000 images for training a CNN feels so tiny. The paper should have included a learning curve.

The paper shouldn't have been written at all.

At SXSW one year IBM had Watson come up with a bunch of new recipes to try. I thought they all tasted awful. Some things are just not suited to the current AI tools.

Edit: typo

This is not an issue just for China. Naver/kakao in South Korea also are like this. Apps that are all-inclusive are the norm. It's because the government is picking winners. Ie, someone tied to the government.

Edit: Alternately, West-style VC wasn't funding companies so Asian gov't stepped in.

>> email

I agree that it's likely not "either" but both email addresses matching but I'm convinced that some friend recommendations come from gmail. There's no other way.

No, I used Mac then Windows in the PowerPC days, then back to MacOs on the switch back to Intel. I still need to use Windows for work sometimes and I still think some things about it are better (file management). But in so many ways it's way better. If I needed to build a high end video/gaming workstation now I would buy a PC. But I would still have a mac laptop to do everything else. Let's see what Apple comes up with, but my guess is that this is the reality going forward.

HTTPS works in most places too.

Edit: the HTTP vs HTTPS is interesting. My guess is because it is slightly cheaper to use HTTP and they serve a fuck load of music. But this only saves you from MITM attacks. People can still grab music out of their cache. So confusing.

I'm not sure if Spotify does this, my experience is mostly in video, but if some or all content is going to be encrypted, you start with a small http/unencrypted section and then get the license to play the encrypted part. This is because you can put the unencrypted section on a edge CDN but getting a license is going to have to go through a server that could have some significant time (say up to a couple of seconds depending). This makes it so you start right away (better UX).

I do have some experience in music, and this is likely for uncompressed or hidef playback. Some labels force encryption for hidef (but in general most of the music services stream straight progressive unencrypted even though their contracts require encryption in all cases).

Edit: but doing this is really tough. You're going to need to stitch together those two stream without a gap. This takes a lot of engineering. I've done this in flash and pure js. So this is not an arbitrary decision.

Couldn't the preview always end after N seconds, and the licensed stream always begin at the very next frame? Then it's just a matter of appending the licensed stream to the playback buffer after exhausting the preview stream.

Exactly. This is how you do it. But you'd be surprised how complicated this is.

They could still serve the first few seconds from a CDN at the edge via TLS.

My guess because it will save them a few $$$. Millions at stake here. Why would someone do a MITM attack against 5 secs of intro audio?

Obviously the NSA would.

Edit: exclusives. https://qz.com/949942/spotifys-new-deal-with-universal-gives...

Forget MITM, it also leaks information about your listening history which some may be uncomfortable with.

Welcome to America. People who complain about tipping annoy me. I agree it's a pain to have to tip but companies in America like to not pay their employees.

Instead of giving the tipping option Uber should just automatically add 15%. But knowing Uber they would just keepo this 15% and not pass it on to the driver.

I'd like to see country of origin for tweets/accounts. I know this can be worked around with a vpn, but it's a start.

That would be wherever the cheapest servers can be bought. Or just random open proxies.