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For those not running apache, or afraid of messing with their front end settings. I found the DNS verification system for Let's Encrypt to be a breeze, especially when your DNS provider has an API of some sort (CloudFlare, Route53, etc.)
I came here to say the same thing. I wonder where all these rumours about a car are coming from? Smoke and mirrors?

Frankly, that idea sounds ridiculous, but the first "good" VR headset is something that Apple is absolutely capable of delivering and importantly, it fits the R&D spending figures in the article (a car would cost them a lot more).

They also happen to have a number of unique strengths such as their own OS, their own SoC that give them a huge advantage over anyone else in market.

It also makes sense that Apple would not want Facebook to gain any traction with the Oculus Store in competition to their own App Store, so frankly it would be a huge strategic mistake for Apple not to release a VR device within the next 2 years. I just think they won't release anything until all the user-hostile kinks have been worked out.

Apple is not, as many seem to be suggesting in this thread, about applying "disruptive UX" to random markets like cars. They are about giving new technologies mass-market appeal. They take something niche (like MP3 players, smartphones, or VR) and they make it into something that everyone wants.
Good to see Zuse on HN. It's possible to go and see his machines in Germany and I highly recommend it. This is a "forgotten" part of computing history because of WWII and deserves the light of day.
I think we should discount The Widget Formerly Known As The Address Bar from these sorts of discussions. The omnibox[chrome]/awesomebar[ff]/frustrationmaker[edge]/etc. is a field where a human can type or paste all sorts of guff, and where the browser can present the human with a representation of the location of the cat video currently playing on the screen (complete with optional scheme, padlock icon, elided path elements, fancy colours and shading, Unicode snowmen, etc.)

Sometimes the guff from the human looks exactly the same as a URL, sometimes it's close enough to work out what they meant, and the rest of the time it's just guff. If it looks exactly like a URL or IRI, it's trivial for the browser to turn it into a proper URI and emit an appropriate request. If it's close, then some assumptions can be made, but the browser is still responsible for constructing the actual URI. That doesn't mean that what the human typed has any bearing on the underlying protocols or standards, or the definition of a URI/URL.
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> The problem is fundamentally that "encrypted tamper-proof streaming" is not possible

In an absolute sense maybe not, but you can have decent approximations. As OP points out, music ended up being ok with watermarking. Hollywood might be ok with something like hardware tokens (which imho would be superior to "just download and execute this blob and shut up").

> There is no risk to money or jobs.

If that was the case, we wouldn't be hearing musicians crying foul about Spotify every other day.

> Eliminating DRM would reduce piracy by improving the experience of legitimate purchasers

At current prices, that's unlikely. The experience is not terrible with current players either; what drives privacy at this point is mostly price. Hollywood doesn't want to give up margins that are unrealistic in the digital age, which is why they fixate on DRM.

> When you encounter someone [...] You teach them that it isn't possible

There is teaching and there is shaming. Shouting at them that they are morally-corrupt buffoons is not "teaching".
> The interesting effects, which EPR considered paradoxical, arise when we make measurements of both members of the pair. When we measure both members for color, or both members for shape, we find that the results always agree. Thus if we find that one is red, and later measure the color of the other, we will discover that it too is red, and so forth. On the other hand, if we measure the shape of one, and then the color of the other, there is no correlation. Thus if the first is square, the second is equally likely to be red or to be blue.

That's not paradoxical, that's just two objects with the same random shape and the same random color. Quantum entanglement is stranger than that, it can't be explained by hidden correlated information about both objects.

Here's an example of quantum entanglement. Imagine that Alice and Bob live far from each other and can't communicate. There are three possible yes/no questions you can ask them, but each person can only answer one question. These facts are known:

1) If you ask Alice and Bob the same question, they always give opposite answers.

2) If you ask Alice question 1 and ask Bob question 2, the probability that both will say yes is 5%.

3) If you ask Alice question 2 and ask Bob question 3, the probability that both will say yes is 5%.

4) If you ask Alice question 1 and ask Bob question 3, the probability that both will say yes is 20%.

Under classical assumptions, there's no way for Alice and Bob to prepare a strategy beforehand that would lead to such probabilities. The reason is that case 4 is completely covered by cases 2 and 3, but has higher probability than the two of them combined. Here's a proof:

(4)
=> A1Y and B3Y
=> A1Y and B3Y and (A2N or A2Y) // tautology
=> A1Y and B3Y and (B2Y or A2Y) // by (1)
=> (A1Y and B2Y and B3Y) or (A1Y and A2Y and B3Y) // logical operations
=> (A1Y and B2Y) or (A2Y and B3Y) // logical operations
=> (2) or (3)

Now, as strange as it sounds, in a quantum world Alice and Bob can defeat that proof and prepare a strategy beforehand. When you ask Alice a question, she will consult her prepared photon in a box, and measure it in a way that depends on which question you asked. The measurement will mess up the photon's state, so you don't get to ask another question. Elsewhere, Bob will do the same with his photon. The two photons were prepared together, but are completely separated at the time of the game.

Before you ask, it's provable that such tricks cannot be used to send information faster than light. Quantum "spooky action" is somehow more powerful than hidden correlations, but less powerful than outright communication. It's pretty subtle and most popular accounts don't get it right.
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This logic is flawed. If you want to test something secretly you do it in plain sight and use mis-direction. Buy some Tesla vehicles and put your electronics inside -- can you tell who owns the software and hardware inside when looking at the outside? Use a Chevy volt for the really juicy stuff, nobody will even blink. If you need to test a fancy new sensor, buy a white car and slap Google on the side, everyone knows Google is testing this stuff, so meh!
Sometimes I try to squeeze more battery time from my old laptop, and I look for processes hogging the cpu. Invariably I see Firefox consuming 30-40% cpus and I have to hunt down those misbihaving tabs that, even idle, keep the cpu awake.

The reality is that today saving power matters everywhere. On mobile and laptops means a longer lasting battery and/or lighter device; on a desktop and laptop it means a quieter machine; on the datacenter, power usage is probably the most important cost today.
slut-shame? Is that a good analogy?
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sorry, but i have to ask: is this relevant _here_ ?
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A service like this already exists - zapchain.com (bitcoin instead of ether). I have earned billions of satoshi on it but well, it is failing.
Because identity could not be solved with partial blockchain, same mistake Akasha is doing.

An identity is a proxy for past work done, which the identifier further wishes to use as a proxy for future working. A blockchain bypasses this by directly asking a proof of current work, irrelevant of past work done.

When a system does not use an exclusive blockchain, the identity is unable to proxy itself through PoW. Spam rules zapchain now.

To make this work they need a PoW Akashacoin.
If you are actually pressing the throttle the car will chime several warnings but won't stop you - any car that I know of that has the automatic collision avoidance feature only brakes for you if the foot is off the throttle.
Those are really interesting links. Thanks.
That service is available. You've exactly described Uber.

Driverless cars would be (further) disruptive but only if driverless cars are actually possible. That is mostly a tech press peak hype cycle fantasy right now. Even Google made a public statement throwing cold water on that, saying it could take 30 years.

Meanwhile the disruption we could actually face is with 10X improvements in safety and comfort via semi-autonomous driver assistance features. A car that mostly takes care of itself, but still requires a human pilot that remains engaged, aware and alert, particularly in situations that are more dicey. You know, like how airplane autopilot works.
Except they are. The F-Droid devs kept claiming they weren't. Moxie asked them to describe the system and surprise, surprise the keys are stored on a machine that is connected to a network that is connected to the internet. It turned out that the F-Droid devs didn't/don't understand the concept of stored offline vs online.

Response from actual FDroid dev:

> It's connected to the network, yes
Agree. The Z3 is exhibited at the Deutsches Museum in Munich:

http://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/exhibitions/communication/...

Here's the Z3 in action (German only, try subtitles):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXnhVrT4CI
I understand your concern, but, as I said, a number of authors have not have financing, plans for new contributors, etc. in the beginning and have been successful; these are not requirement for success in the beginning.

For example, here is the story of how Python got its start from Guido van Rossum (quote from 1996):

"Over six years ago, in December 1989, I was looking for a "hobby" programming project that would keep me occupied during the week around Christmas. My office ... would be closed, but I had a home computer, and not much else on my hands. I decided to write an interpreter for the new scripting language I had been thinking about lately: a descendant of ABC that would appeal to Unix/C hackers. I chose Python as a working title for the project, being in a slightly irreverent mood (and a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus)."

And the history of how Ruby got its start by Yukihiro Matsumoto (quote from 1999) is similar:

"I was talking with my colleague about the possibility of an object-oriented scripting language. I knew Perl (Perl4, not Perl5), but I didn't like it really, because it had the smell of a toy language (it still has). The object-oriented language seemed very promising. I knew Python then. But I didn't like it, because I didn't think it was a true object-oriented language — OO features appeared to be add-on to the language. As a language maniac and OO fan for 15 years, I really wanted a genuine object-oriented, easy-to-use scripting language. I looked for but couldn't find one. So I decided to make it."

Denys Shabalin is working under the author of Scala and corresponding regularly with the author of Scala.js, so he has more support than either van Rossum or Matsumoto did, and neither of them had the plans you spoke of- they just wrote the language because it is what they wanted to do.
The person who invented the computer. Which somehow no US school teaches about.

He also developed a very awesome high-level language very early on.
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I had to turn it on: FF 45.x-esr on OS X (cannot specify ".x" because apparently the "About Firefox" dialog is broken).
Often there are tradeoffs. E.g. when I put my phone in powersaving mode the dimmed screen is very hard to read in bright sunlight. My browser not processing background tabs might be a useful feature sometimes, but when I'm listening to music on Youtube it would be a real inconvenience.
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I've seen expandable Ethernet ports on several ultrabooks - Toshibas in particular. They spring closed when not in use and the bottom half expands when you need to plug in a cable. Apple could manage it tastefully, I'm sure.
Agree. I'm building software in Go and using the AWS DynamoDB service.

Lots of performance, minimal operations.

Easy to manage tons of installs of this software.

It's not impossible to scale RoR and Postgres but there are architectures that are far easier.
I saw a study some years ago that compared the interests of copyright holders of that of consumers, and concluded that 14 years after initial publication (non-renewable of course) is the optimal duration for copyright.
*Edit - parent has also clarified that he has egg on face too. He meant a MacBook Pro as well.
I'm not sure it's more bizarre than, say, matter being made up of atoms. As others have said, it tends to be taught in an overly confusing way - perhaps intentionally so. This article is a decent example of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

Most remarkable:

> Zuse completed his work entirely independently of other leading computer scientists and mathematicians of his day. Between 1936 and 1945, he was in near-total intellectual isolation.
Well, it does, but nobody listens!
Horribly clickbait title, also a dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11676885
On Windows at least it looks like it’s considerably better than Chrome but less good than Edge / IE: http://www.digitalcitizen.life/test-comparison-which-browser...
I agree that not everyone cares about these sort of things. However there are still people out there that do care and now those people will have an alternative.

For those that do not care about the decentralized/freedom of speech/privacy aspects embedded in our app we think they might find it interesting thanks to the way good content and thoughtful commentary can generate "real money" rather than "points".

For those that don't care about the money either and just want a nice user experience without being bombarded with spam and ads, we think that they might find it attractive thanks to the clean and intuitive UX/UI we designed. We don't like ads either and we're set on experimenting with alternative business models made possible by cryptocurrencies in general in the pursuit for a sustainable social media network model that doesn't rely on ads.

Then, there's also the people that actually create and do things such as writers, artists and activists. They might appreciate AKASHA for different reasons as it allows them to connect more directly with their fan base/followers by-passing in the process some of the blocks that come in various forms on Web 2.0 platforms.
Describing measurement as "entangling your brain" is a particular viewpoint that is not widely accepted. Most physicists would agree that the LHC's particle collision data constitute measurements, even though most of those results have never been looked at by a human.

Measurement is at its most mysterious in the MW interpretation, because measurements are probabilistic and probabilities are hard to get out of a purely deterministic theory like MW.
Is that with a reasonable (~10) or unreasonable (~300) number of tabs open?
Same with German. But even there, there are connotations surrounding those compound words that are lost in translation to English.
That's the large problem here. If you wanted to get the content out, it would be more effective to obtain a HDCP master key, since that one is embedded in a lot of deployed physical devices and thus cannot be easily changed (AFAIK). A CDM in a webbrowser can be updated today and content distributors could stop using the old key tomorrow already.
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Actually they're rewriting the better part, see Servo.
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Interesting idea.

I created a map with the keyword "information".
A few odd categories returned:

- Scientific publishing, Metacognition, Dogs

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Regarding ALGOL (I can't still access the spec), does the standard actually provides for manual memory management or does it only have the equivalent of malloc and no free? (I do not doubt that practical implementations had both).

Regarding hardware safety, I believe we might see a resurgence of builtin support for safety features. CPU designers have more transistors available than they know what to do with it: after adding yet another execution unit and widening the vector lenght again, they are reaching a diminishing return point, so they might switch to adding back these safety features.

And in fact it is already happening: W^X and virtualization can be considered as belonging in this area, and more recently Intel added MPX and MPK that are a more direct attempt at userspace security features.

New architectures are being designed with security in mind, like the vaporware^Wupcoming Mill.
Power consumption improves a lot with malware filters.
"Longer battery life" can be restated as: a lower ambient temperature for your room/office; less CPU cooler fan noise; a lower power bill; the ability to pack more servers per rack in a co-lo environment (yes, servers run browsers–headless ones, for spidering/scraping); etc. It can even be restated in terms of extra performance, when you consider technologies like Intel's Turbo Boost.
Decided to install opera, discovered there's no way to disable speed dial and I was out of there. Why would I want a browser I can't control?
This was very interesting and insightful to read, thanks!
> and the high end estimate -- 12 million shipped through 2015

What's interesting is that if you think of the Watch in terms of it being a computing platform, 12 million devices shipped might be considered a bad sign.

Sega had two back-to-back systems that shipped in that League (the Saturn shipped 9.26 million and Dreamcast shipped 9.13 million) and both systems are considered massive commercial failures, so bad that they nearly sunk the company forcing Sega to pull entirely out of the hardware market.
Charles Babbage is as far as I know the uncontested inventor of the computer, which somehow even German schools teach about.
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I would expect that lower power use is highly correlated to low CPU/GPU use, which can be beneficial for other reasons than reducing power use.
> having better power consumption than Chrome is hardly an achievement

Considering Opera is now based on Chromium, and Google didn't achieve this on its own, I'd say it does deserve some credit.
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I had a quick look into the repository and unfortunately, it doesn't support WebSockets. Does anyone know of a browser automation library/framework that does support WebSockets?
One funny detail I read about those machines is that he had to steal (due to war shortages) copper cables from public telephone lines, which could have lead to death penalty (because of sabotage).
> Laba says arXiv should focus on its core mission. It’s the job of the journals to moderate, she says, and better for third-party sites to handle the discussion.

i actually agree with this

though i do think comments and peer review would be great for arxiv papers.. i think it should be done by someone as a webwrapper
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Does this run afoul of any privacy laws?

Once you give your device to the e-waste program, it is no longer your property so I could imagine that this could be construed as illegal tracking somehow by the e-waste companies. There are also specific laws in many states regarding the GPS tracking of vehicles you do not own, so I'm pretty curious as to the legality of this.
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We are aware and are ready to switch to a service-worker and appcache hybrid when that time comes that appcache is going to be removed.

But until then we wanted to keep it simple. Especially during development we don't want to have to deal with differences in SW and appcache.
Was it Turing complete? Because Zuse's Z3 was.

I'm not saying though, that this is a criteria for calling any machine a computer. But it's probably what sets Zuse's achievement apart.

UPDATE: I've just learned that Babbage's language was also Turing complete. So Zuse's achievement is solely having physically built the first working computer, while Babbage's machine was never realized.
Honest question: How relevant is DRM in preventing piracy in non-interactive media?

Consider a theoretical world in which DRM would reliably prevent unauthorized copying or decryption of DRM-secured content 100% of the time. The obvious attack vector for pirates would be to play the video and audio and just capture it with a camera directly in front of the monitor, and a microphone attached to every speaker.

Are pirates doing this today, or is it just not worth it because DRM schemes are easily circumvented? I'm quite confident that copying of the physical signals should produce good results. There are consumer cameras capturing 4K video, and a video that's distorted by a non-orthogonal view on the screen can trivially be fixed in software. (It loses some fidelity, but you should still be able to get near-full-HD output out.)
If this happens, there's a lot to be learned from Stack Exchange on how to do this well. The stats.stackexchange.com site is actually pretty high quality IMHO.

Arxiv could use some of that reputation & moderation structure to regulate content. Cranks and time-wasters could be sidelined. It would certainly work much better than a typical newspaper comments section.

It would work by establishing expectations of how much substance should be in a response to a paper. Then getting the community to pitch in on the quality of responses. You still get echo-chamber effects with this, but the quality filter is generally worth it.
i've had a similar situation in germany though not related to parking. i fought back while everybody suggested to just pay. after several letters quoting the law, they lowered the fine.

i wanted to fight to the end because it was a sign for me that they half-admitted wrong-doing.

but, as a sheep, i ended up paying. still hate myself for giving in.
Also seems Turing and Zuse probably met in 1947: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/Turing_Zus...
That wasn't my point. I'm not saying that all oligarchs are in line with current policy. In fact, quite the opposite: Trump is clearly an oligarch, and Sanders is at least upper class.