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That was also a bit irritating for me. I am from Germany and celebrating Germany became a bit frowned upon for obvious reasons. Besides during the World Cup, of course.

My first thought is, then what if people around the world started to care about spaceflight to the same degree they pay attention to the World Cup? But considering the broad geopolitical implications tied up in spaceflight and ballistic missile technology, this does become weird and problematic in just a few steps, doesn't it? Hopefully, from here on out, all of the jingoism will just be noise, and all of the major wars will be, at worst, cold.
Sorta offtopic, but the logo reminds me of http://ich.deanmcnamee.com/pre3d/ , except that one has the cute behavior when you move the mouse.
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Food for thought. I don't think you would clone it in such an obvious fashion.

Several other projects tried to do it, and we currently have some SV VC-fueled competitors. But I don't think they have the roadmap we do.

Funny thing is we spent the better part of last year VC-shopping and everyone passed on us. Some shit VC from Berlin forwarded all info to the CEO of EU's largest eSports business and they all said our business idea sucks.

So until some college buddy of a VC has the same idea and gets easy money (I'm looking at you USV) the whole pay-for-money thing still has to grow.

From a technical perspective the implementation of user-friendly real-time tournaments was really hard to get right and can't easily be copied.
Is identity theft not their issue? That site includes a history of your buying/selling habits, your address, your phone number, your payment information... screw the money itself, there's a lot more damage a nefarious eavesdropper can do than make a purchase with your account in Belgium.
This has been posted 18 times so far, yet never hit the front page until now. Max points before was 4.

Is this a record for number of reposts before an eventual front page one?
I would be interested seeing this coupled with a NLP library and a graphing library if this could be used to make a wolfram-like clone.
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It would be incredibly bold for a major subscription content vendor, such as the NYTimes, to set up such a program. You sign into your NYTimes account, and sites around the web either become available to you, hide their advertising for you, or offer extra premium content just for NYTimes subscribers.

Basically, the app store model built upon the NYTimes, where you get the basic news from the New York Times and the niche stuff from content partners who the NYTimes will reimburse for page views, out of the subscription fee they are already collecting.

This would be so bold that I doubt it will happen from an existing print content vendor like NYTimes. Seems like something Amazon might do as a Prime benefit, though. Basically like Prime video, just for text.
Ironically, that makes you the kind of person that the advertising company is the least interested in. You're not interested in buying what they're selling, you just want to cost them money. That means your "ethical" stance isn't really sustainable in the long term. In a world where everybody blocks ads by default, but unblocks them as a form of compensation of content providers, advertisements themselves will have little to no business value. Over time, as advertisers realize they no longer getting any ROI, the funding will dry up.
They shouldn't block adblock because ads are untrustworthy.

Ads are hiding the content, tracking people, and even distributing malware.

Publishers need to make money, of course, but they need to find a way to do so that respects other people.
Is there anyone who believes Amazon's prices wouldn't rise in the absence of competition?
Reminds me of the Nathan for You episode with the dating site that sends a bodyguard with every woman that goes on a date.
To be fair, single payer healthcare systems are a mess... A relic of 1940s Era economic thought. No one serious about designing national health systems even considers them anymore. The waiting lists, under and over staffing, wage setting and budget impossibilities make it impossible. Canada has been convening one health council after another for 20 years to try and fix their system, and every one says they have to go mixed. But politics of identity make that hard. I guess it must be the same for Bernie... Hard to reject your roots.

The most successful universal coverage systems are mixed models, like France and Germany. Make the private system compete with a public system (and vice versa). The details of how that works depend on what part of the outcome you want to target: best costs, best patient outcomes, etc...
I never understood all the fuss about the the movement of the barge until I saw this landing. Even after it landed I was nervous it would tip over given the apparent motion of the barge!
> A crypto-secured digital communication should be analogous to sending an untampered with letter, or having a private conversation in a secure location.

I don't think anything in the bill requires a provider to keep around copies of information they don't already keep. They need to be able to provide access contemporaneously with transmission (i.e. basically a wiretap), or if they have stored it or can access it on the device.

If you receive a sealed letter and the police get a warrant, they can search your drawer and open that letter. If you have a private conversation with someone, a prosecutor can subpoena that person and force them to testify about what you told them.

I'm amenable to the argument that the law shouldn't stand in the way of progress; it's possible to communicate much more securely now than it ever was in the past and the law shouldn't stand in the way of people taking advantage of those advances. But the bill isn't "regressive"--it's attempting to maintain powers the police already have with traditional means of communication.
Patriotic displays were one of the major tools that enabled WW2. Maybe not as a cause, but certainly as an absolutely required component.

We frown upon these things not because of what happened, we frown upon them because of what we don't want to happen again. The past might be long gone, but the future is always right around the corner.
>I often wonder why Microsoft doesn't just bite the bullet and adopt Linux as the kernel for Windows.

Linux doesn't have the massive data collection apparatus that Windows 10 does. If they released an OS with the Linux kernel + NSA, there would be no reason to use it over some other Linux distro.

Microsoft makes a lot of money from selling and analyzing your data. The main purpose of Windows at this point is the data collection tools.
One of the many practical neat things you can do when you're emulating all the software of a machine, is visually analyzing memory relatively easily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25nLk1Z8wd0
But it's not just GNU running on top of the Windows kernel. It's GNU executables which think they're communicating with a Linux kernel. I understand being frustrated about the already-forming naming conventions (although they've been chanting GNU/Linux forever and it still isn't used in common parlance), but GNU/kWindows doesn't capture the nature of the system either.
Overweight and unhealthy are very different things.

There is never been a scientific study that showed being overweight (not obese) causes health problems. And the opposite causality (weight gain resulting from unrelated health problems) is incredibly common.

Julie Guthman's book "Weighing In" goes into detail.
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it's kind of like what I do at my local bakery/patisserie. I hate that I have to ask for something from behind the counter, and the person wants to handle my extremely dirty cash with the same fingers that they use to take out and give me what I ask for. It's disgusting.

So I just reach behind the counter (technically quite easy) and take it out, without bringing cash into the equation. It's not my fault they make it so easy for me to leave without paying them. The fact that they have a broken business model isn't my fault!

How is it up to them to say "You can take this from behind the counter, but you have to let us take and handle your cash and then give you this dirty version" when I can just take the clean version myself!

In what way is it up to them to dictate what they will and won't serve me!

If they want me to stop taking their pastries without paying, they need to make it not technically possible.

/s

(how I feel people sound when they talk about their right to use ad blockers over the wishes of the people who the ads would be paying and whose servers are serving the content.)
Think what it does for all the creditcard companies. The TLS stream contains also those nice back-of-the-card control numbers that card processors are not allowed to store.
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> The lawsuits are $0, after rounding to the nearest trillion.

Exactly so!

Wait, you caught the sarcasm tag right?
The ship can hold position to within less than a meter. It's easier to just plan the position beforehand than try to have the rocket receive the ship's position in realtime somehow.

It's interesting to consider how much more difficult this stuff would be without the GPS satellites already in space.
Given that courts have ruled open-source crypto code to be constitutionally protected speech, it might be difficult to make that stick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code#Legal_issues_in_th...
This argument doesn't really make sense to me. What browser, OS and device are you using to post this comment? Someone made profit when you bought the device, bought the OS and/or browser.

A healthy system needs some kind of motivation. In economies, that is profits/money. What's wrong with that? (I know I am being simplistic here but...)
Resubmitted = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11458621
> IMHO As one of the top DriveNow customers i'm pretty upset that they shot themselves in the foot here in SF by attempting to get 100's of on street parking permits for ELECTRIC cars which need to be constantly charged. I really don't understand who thought that would be a great idea for a parking constrained city like San Francisco.

Since they are paying for the parking I don't really see what the issue is. If the cars are out somewhere being charged they won't be in a parking spot. Using parking spots for shared cars is more efficient and should actually increase the turnover of spots while still providing consistent revenue to the city (without having to worry about enforcement or actually collecting the revenue).
Content is not dead. Our current content delivery mechanisms have failed.
His maternal grandfather is American and he took the citizenship oath in 2002 -- Which is why America is pretty cool, many millions of Americans have foreign accents!
That's very cool.

The API seems fairly similar to SymPy. It would be great to have a CAS that can perform simple operations in the browser, and ship more complicated things to a SymPy backend (or another CAS).

http://live.sympy.org/ is great, but do we really need to call the backend for everything?
The problem here is not so much someone stealing stuff or making money I think (e.g. if a rogue company puts it's game for sale without approval, after Valve finds out they're going to get sued and probably have to return all earnings); the problem is anonymous vandalism. If the system is really bad some people can wreak havoc stealing sensitive data, unduly charging people for games, polluting the front page with fake games, subtly undermining competitor games, etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_occupational_quali...

There's an exception to US anti discrimination laws for jobs that require a certain age/sex/gender/race etc. Catholic schools for example can exclude non-Catholics from being theology teachers, for instance. Actors can be excluded on the basis of race, if the character requires a certain race.

I'm not sure though if this qualifies though. Seems like there would be caselaw somewhere on it though.
Seems telling that you're getting downvotes but no replies explaining how your comparison is wrong...
That's not what it means. You have to be diligent in asking properly and vetting the rules for what's to be done. It may also include gate meeting type things and regular status reporting. You just don't downshift the project into high torque when some phony date rises up.

I don't remember if it's "Mythical Man Month" or Thomas deMarco where I'd read it. They're better at explaining it than I.
Seems awkward (and pricey, as mentioned) to handle an actual transaction each time. Why not just have a browser extension that aggregates and bills monthly? Like the opposite of an ad-blocker, an ad-unlocker.

This has probably been discussed somewhere...
I would like to see what your app is about, but spreadsheet.io returns a 503 error, can I see something about it on another place?
It's an operational cost, not COGS. And, sure it's a standalone line item as much as any other.

Not sure I understand the distinction you're attempting to make. It's a function of their model that can affect their competitiveness and may well argue for (or against) closures.
It was mildly amusing, just chuckle a bit and move on.
Overselling how? I'm interested what you mean by this - that's a pretty hand-wavey response for the main business model of the 5th most valuable company.
https://blendle.com/ is attempting just this. They have a beta service available now, and its rather nice. You pay a few cents per article and you can easily get refunds if you don't like the article or if it isn't what you expected.
Phoronix is my go to site for Linux-specific hardware, graphics, benchmarking site. Other sites have those as well but they are also Windows / Mac focused, which I am not as interested in.
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I also got the impression because after they took the company over that provided the rental service before (Lovefilm) everything got worse. Amazons website is far worse than what existed before, prices got up and in the first phase the delivery also took longer.

However Streaming and especially Amazons offering is no alternative for Blu-Ray rental in my opinion:

- The video quality for streaming is lacking.

- The amount of movies (not shows) that amazon is offering through VOD is quite low and most of it is old and uninteresting stuff. Outside of prime you can get newer videos also through VOD. But the prices are not really attractive when you can get a higher quality version on disc for a lower or equal price.
As a rule, don't buy a Mac Pro when you're doing single core operations. It's often not worth the money even for multi-core, multi-core plus using the GPUs is when it's the right pick. I'm referring to choosing a Mac, not comparing Macs & PCs.
I've watched several times now and seeing things like this make me optimistic about the future of humanity. The commercial space industry is literally being born before our eyes (not the utility space industry of lift/transport, but the one where private companies begin to capitalize on the resources of space).

My only problem with this whole thing: Weyland-Yutani Corporation sounds so much cooler than SpaceX.
Wired has always been garbage. You're just getting old enough to realize it.

There's always going to be garbage content sources that are more popular than the quality content sources. If you appreciate quality content, your duty is not to bitch about the garbage content but to support quality content.
The reason I got Prime in Germany (at student rates: €24/y) was free delivery without a minimum amount. Nowadays it's even free same-day delivery (when it's available).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11358041
Seattle isn't at a significant risk of a tsunami thanks to the large mountain range between it and the Pacific, but it is an issue for those on the peninsula and even more so for coastal Oregon (higher population). A big quake will happen, but that shouldn't deter someone from SF.
That landing was amazing to see. The landing they did on land was more spectacular, but having seen their failed landings on the barge earlier it feels so good they succeed at last. Godspeed SpaceX!
c) targeted more poorly (albeit without the privacy concerns.)
d) expensive for the publisher (they have to do their own sales.)

And therefore only feasible for very large sites.
There is now: https://github.com/aaron-em/ten-hundred-mode.el

(There was before, under the name "1000-words.el", but it isn't very good, and it also isn't, and can't easily be made, available via MELPA. So I wrote this instead. The PR to add it to MELPA is open and awaiting review; pretty soon you should be able to M-x package-install RET ten-hundred-mode RET and get it.)
“I’ll just keep writing over my junk DNA for storage.”

http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
I want to add Cubase. It's not even that cluttered, but was the first program I encountered, that I could not easily learn by doing.
What they do know is that this would break tech companies. Tech companies with a lot of cash, but comparatively very little spending on political fundraising. Nudge nudge.
My rough view of emulating userspace and the syscall ABI is that the three main tricky parts are (1) signals (2) threads (3) mmap and generally handling the guest address space; most of the rest is just a big pile of fiddly details. How does Usercorn do there currently? (Among other things there are some pretty tricky race conditions to avoid between signals and syscalls to make sure you return to the guest and don't acidentally block forever in a syscall.)

(I work on qemu, including its linux-user stuff...)
Ask HN: What's most important when creating software?
Also, how would you the following be ordered (most important to least): clarity, brevity, elegance, correctness, simplicity, speed, robustness, and efficiency? Why?
shrug seems fine to me. Doesn't change the enjoyment of the car. Yeah, it's got a sticker on it, but likely an urban dweller without a car who only rents one for occasional trips would be relatively proud of their lifestyle, not embarassed by a sticker on the car.
Elon is having a very good week!
An advertisement is not a transactional fee.

I don't have to look at your ads when you're giving away free pastries.
off-topic, but the guardian crossword went back to being free a while ago (and there was much rejoicing).
I think your answered your question: From a technical perspective the implementation of user-friendly real-time tournaments was really hard to get right.

So you have your "secret sauce" (that is real-time tournaments). You just need to make your design not to be plain bootstrap so that it does look like you cloned somebody's else website.
I agree very much, and think that a lot of the problem comes from the fact that as a society, we are not taught enough about how to think (and especially read) critically. In combination with floods of data coming in 24/7, people's compasses start getting out of whack, and online journalism becomes a marketer's dream. I'm guilty of it too, even though I try to make a conscious effort to pick my sources more carefully now.
I'm no fan of Feinstein, but that sort of thing is the most brainless sort of smear attempt. There's no evidence that Feinstein had anything to do with the awarding of that contract.
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Could just operate the crane from home in pyjamas
Yes there is. People use can and do use networks of trust to navigate the latter. It's messy, but it works to an extent. In the former you have no such option.

As a species we're becoming more knowledgable at a staggering pace right now. If you think the non-academic world is not benefitting from having access to the Internet you are crazy.
The guy scours a lot of mailing lists and posts about small releases and such. There isn't much content, but I've had phoronix in my rss reader for the titles alone; it's nice to be informed about that stuff.
Why is Linux coming to Windows exciting to you? There are already all sorts of problems and I'm sure they'll get better, but you go on to say:

> I want to work, not endlessly configure my Emacs

Which implies you want a system that stays out of your way.

How will this new compatibility layer stay out of your way when you constantly have to find new work arounds whenever you develop anything?

For example I've seen a lot of user complaining about setting up a full android development environment. I'm sure this will get support, then other dev environments one by one, but on Linux they'll just work 99% of the time (at least in my experience), on GNU/kWindows you will be debugging things for days, I can see it now.

Windows has been coming out with a lot of new stuff lately but nothing has really caught on. I don't see this huge mess taking off or replacing Linux any time soon. Has typescript replaced javascript?
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What really annoys me is the usefulness of ugly color coding. But maybe there are better palette choices than on the avid keyboard: http://www.drted.com/IMG_1225.JPG
The PRNG is certainly involved in the generation of the one-time pad. You could tell if they used the ascii text of hamlet.
Because they are shallow layers over their REST API? There's nothing useful in there anyway.
According to https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4dtoly/rspacex_spac... this one did have enough fuel, but the next couple won't, so they wanted the practice.
>GNU/kWindows is a better name for the resulting OS

What's the issue with “Ubuntu” so that it needs to be dropped completely? The article only contains:

>It would also be best if you avoid calling it “Ubuntu on Windows”; it isn’t a factually incorrect statement—you are running Ubuntu’s distribution of GNU—but it still avoids mentioning the GNU Project.
GNU/WSL
Your choice not to have a dic player is what is limiting your options then. That's not the future coming to fast, that's you cutting off the present too fast for your own interests. For that, only one person is to blame.
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Correctness is certainly the most important. If the software does the wrong thing, who cares if it's elegant, robust, fast, etc.?
Nice. 3D360?
"Bona fide occupational qualifications generally only apply to instances in which the BFOQ is considered reasonably necessary to the normal operation of a particular business. For example, a Catholic college may lawfully require such positions as president, chaplain, and teaching faculty to be Catholics, but membership in the Catholic Church would generally not be considered a BFOQ for occupations such as secretarial and janitorial positions.

Mere customer satisfaction, or lack thereof, is not enough to justify a BFOQ defense, as noted in the cases Diaz v. Pan Am. World Airways, Inc.[6] and Wilson v. Southwest Airlines Co..[7] Therefore, customer preference for females does not make femininity a BFOQ for the occupation of flight attendant.[8] However, there may be cases in which customer preference is a BFOQ—for example, femininity is reasonably necessary for Playboy Bunnies.[9] Customer preference can "'be taken into account only when it is based on the company's inability to perform the primary function or service it offers,' that is, where sex or sex appeal is itself the dominant service provided."[10]"

My guess would be that excludes gender discriminating people driving cars outright. While obviously, as discussed in the article, women may prefer women drivers, the driver being a woman is not functionally necessary to drive a car.