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I would love to introduce you to the GDPR. It does almost all of what you propose, and it goes into effect in May in Europe.
> Prime video is their main competitor.

They have a gentleman's agreement with Amazon–like Apple does with Samsung. It's mutually beneficial for both parties so there's no point antagonizing each other.
It's a nice a idea though. I mean, every programmer wishes to have his application written in the best, fastest programming language that exists in the universe. But look, HTTP with C++ will just give you the double of the work. The most similiar language you could use, i would say C#. Take a look at ASP.NET, it's a great framework too :) !
City data is improving. Wilderness data is poor. Ocean data is worst. Satellite view is not what we think it is. Oceanic satellite view is not imagery, but just blue paint. If it were imagery it'd show the Arctic as white. It's been white for 700,000 years. It's melting fast, but none of the mapping technology shows that, which makes it hard for us to protect the earth. fixmaps.org (my site)
It's interesting how Google's projects don't spell financial returns immediately but a few years hence, they are the dominant player in that field. Management deserves credit for nurturing these project but it has always been characteristic of Google to support ambitious ideas.

Google Maps was more ready than anyone else to ride the smartphone explosion. I guess they will also be more ready than everyone to cash on self-driving cars, Advanced AI, VR, and maybe youth-enhancing drugs too.
Could whoever disagreed with the person above me please articulate themselves as to why? I found it to hold a fair point. Just curious why these kind of comments aren't welcome.
If you believe that is true, why didnt coinbase just announced they were releasing full BCH support earlier?
So you'd understand why I took offense to your comment that "North Korea didnt do anything wrong", and if you were Czech you'd take offense to the Prague Spring because you know that USSR "did very wrong".

I have trouble understanding people defending a country like North Korea out of all places with little understanding of the danger they pose and have posed since day 1.
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Chrome wraps this [1] in the browser.

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Yes, but I think you could write off the losses, so might equal out if it crashed to 0.
Then people would just do 10'000 0.1 BTC trades....
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The article keeps mentioning satellites but Google's imagery data is mostly provided by planes, not satellites. They have their own fleet of planes, which they have hollowed out and redesigned (with the supervision and authorization of the FAA) and fitted with their cameras.

Also, it's not as simple as "Google has a six year lead on Apple in imagery": it's more that Apple can't keep up. As the article correctly states, Apple started collecting aerial imagery around the same time that Google did, they just haven't been able to execute on it as fast as Google did, and by now, they probably never will.
Saying we've overcorrected on racism is like saying we've overcorrected on feminism. If 2017 has shown us anything, its that there are a lot of skeletons hidden in many closets.

There's extremist in both groups that fight for overcorrection but lets not confuse that with an actual overcorrection of any kind.
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Actually you can trade GOOG and TSLA on both NYSE and NASDAQ. RegNMS is what prevents inter-exchange arbitrage.
How can I as a programmer get involved politically?
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It's not just unpaved roads. I also find that "private" roads (inside gated communities) around me are often extremely far off in terms of speed limit. There are private roads around here with speed limits of 45+ MPH that Google seems to calculate as 15-25MPH. It really throws off the time estimates if you're coming from or going to one of those neighborhoods. And it's been like that for YEARS. If they were using user-generated data, I'd expect that it would eventually get better, but I've seen no evidence of it. Waze does a better job at this.
It's nothing like the internet or hotmail. Bitcoin is hot air. There is no "there" in cryptocurrency. It is inefficient, slow and solves no real world problem. Our existing infrastructure works just fine for 99% of all users.

Lets not even forget that bitcoin is 9 years old. If it was gonna catch on, it already would have. The only way it has "caught on" is a pump & dump get rich quick scheme.
The same way as non-programmers.
From 2016: (what is the latest?)

https://www.quora.com/What-map-API-technology-did-Uber-use-t...
I doubt anybody will see this comment, but I'll leave it here anyway just in case.

While using Maps the other day to get bus directions I got pulled up short and had a very big laugh after Maps gave me a route that would have required I walk through my neighbor's living room and backyard, and then jump my back fence in order to get home. :D

Maps apparently thinks that the internal roads in the townhouse complex next to mine will provide access to my house. This most definitely is not the case :D

I'd like to forward this to someone internal, both for the fun of sharing it with an actual human being and also because I don't share _exactly_ where I live (town, okay; house and street, not so much).

On the same note, I wouldn't mind making friends with random people in various teams - Search, Maps, etc - because I often see glitches and have nobody I can tell.

My email's in my profile, FWIW, and I have no problem with anybody forwarding it on and/or random incoming emails from engineers if that happens to work :)
Any idea if a detailed notice from Mozilla will be issued about this at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/57 or similar?
I just wish that they would combine Waze and Google Maps. The Google Maps UI is SO MUCH NICER than Waze. It truly pains me to use Waze because it's so ugly. But at least in my area, it's much more effective at routing me around traffic (sometimes too aggressive, but I'd rather err on that side), and its warnings for things like accidents and objects on the road are incredibly useful. I use Waze every single day for my commute to and from work, and it's really indispensable. Every once in a while I decide to give Google Maps another shot because the interface is so much nicer, but I always miss the data quality from Waze. I don't understand why they can't have the best of both in a single app at this point.

I realize that some Waze data is surfaced in Google Maps, but it's not the same as "there's an object on the road in 500 feet" or "we're re-routing you because traffic changed ahead." Maybe Google Maps does do those things, but I have never witnessed it, and Waze does it all the time.
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Might be something wrong with your SMC or thermal throttling going on. Either way I'd suggest resetting the SMC and if that doesn't fix it check out Activity Monitor to see what's wrong.
perhaps I'm missing something, but wouldn't large-scale adoption like they're projecting be really hard on the environment?

Dynamicland introduces a 1:1, persistent mapping between virtual and tangible. won't this kill a lot of trees?
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You are right. But speaking out the truth isn't compatible with HN users as of late. So see downvoting and getting flagged as a sign you are right, just the other try to hide your post and keep you from posting. Unfortunately the atmosphere got really toxic, with many things got hidden from users, the down-voting/flagging does no good.
Your app is only slow now if you are blocking its content and/or most basic usability on the loading of external trackers - a lame yet increasingly common practice that needs to stop.

According to the article, they're only delaying these resources when loaded dynamically or async - so developers should be able to "fix" this by loading tracking scripts synchronously, which is what they are effectively doing already if this new FF behavior causes any noticeable impact.

It's hard to feel much sympathy for devs who have _explicitly_ prioritized the sending of their users' info to external parties, over their sites being baseline usable.
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Point taken, however I appreciate using a mapping service that doesn't show ads. I also prefer Apple Maps aesthetically... minor point.
If you can tell me where to get train timetable information for Australia, I can try!

I'll definitely be in Taiwan until the end of 2018. After that, I might be moving somewhere else (possibly New Zealand, Australia, or Canada). Depending on my future job's policies about side work, then I might be able to redraw a map like this one for wherever I'm living in future.

Another possibility is to clean up my GUI, write a tutorial, and use it as a lesson plan for kids. I'd need to talk to some teachers first though.
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I reported a pharmacy that was supposedly in my neighbours garden. On about the 3rd or 4th report (over a year) it was removed.
The only value of mining is that it is necessary for the bitcoin system to operate. Nothing of real value (outside of the bitcoin system) is being mined and as seen from space it is just a waste of electricity.
I made a killing on the BCH speculation because if you looked at the coinbase API, you could clearly see they had BCH support already implemented even before the announcement!

Made 250k profit just today alone.
It is a general purpose computing platform, with lots of utilities for programming in a physical space. All of the surface area becomes a display, you can render using inches instead of pixels.

In it's early stage there are still many utilities and performance improvements it needs before it can replace your MacBook pro, but it is tangibly exciting to actually work collaboratively rather than stare at a screen at the same time as someone else is staring at a different screen.

The magic moment is in how different it feels to compute with your whole body in a social environment. It really does make a screen feel like a cage that has trapped your mind.
Neither, you have to wait until you get audited for them to tell you.
Ask HN: Any materials on writing production level hyperledger/blockchain apps?
Every time my family takes a trip to northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, my father annoys... err, entertains us with recollection and speculation about where all the old lines ran.

(After the first hour or so, the demand on one's continued attention becomes a bit draining...)

He -- and his ilk -- would love something like that.

I wonder how far back DeLorme published its atlases. I should look for some old, second-hand copies.
It seems they wanted to be Google Maps but failed. You raise a very interesting point with OpenStreetMap - just like WebKit, Apple could just have put some of their billions into boosting that effort, I agree that this would have been way more productive, especially given how engaged smartphone users are with their maps.
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BCH is slightly better though because the transactions are basically free.
> Seems to me one could make money selling widgets that are a little different than the last ones sold, so the customer keeps coming back for more

The Apple/Samsung model.

> Disney is selling a product I've purchased hundreds of times over.

Disney is extending copyright terms with heavy lobbying and cronyism, and then every few decades opens their "vault" for the new and younger generation of parents to buy the same product. As long as they can keep successfully lobbying for longer copyright this is a sustainable business model because quantity will be limited, and who owns a VHS player any more? Guess you should buy that DVD player after all, and the new DVD copy of Snow White. DVD? What's that?
Many people predicted the opposite of this would happen though. That when coinbase users got their BCH freed up they would dump it on the market and tank it, and part of the announcement includes freeing up users' BCH.
Ask HN: Do you blog using wordpress?
My personal site is not much active but when I have something interesting I tend to post.

https://www.minvolai.com/blog I used to blog using wordpress in 2007. Then I migrated to static generator mynt and have been on this from atleast 5 years. Mynt is not so well maintained now and I plan to move to nikola, another static blog generator (written in python).

On the other hand, most of the web uses wordpress. So if I move back to wordpress, I believe I will have a better understanding of other people's workflows and issues. I do not mind keeping the installation up-to-date etc.

One thing that used to bug me when I was using wordpress, was embedding code snippets as a part of blog content. Wordpress would often replace embedded code symbols with html encodings , like ">" by "&gt;". It got really annoying to open every post where it happens and set it right manually.

So my questions are:

* Has anyone moved a programming blog from static blog generator to wordpress? How is the experience?

* Has anyone faced the code replacement situation recently and if so, how do you handle it?
Always vote. Every election, every issue, every race. You probably should vote absentee since you can work over the ballot on your own time rather than give yourself 5 minutes at the booth.

Campaign. Donate. Bernie did what he could with small donations. Obama did what he did in 2008 mostly on small donations.

Turn off the TV.
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But they were selling anyway. What difference does it make if they sold to insiders? If anything, the insiders gave them a better price.
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I could have bought enough BTC to pay a house in cash today, when I first dabbled with it, even as a freshly working student.

I didn't.
I worked at Experian and had access to ConsumerView by way of any number of crazy integration schemes that were/are perpetually making a mockery of security protocols in order to meet deadlines and please clients. Pretty much anyone with network access could download a copy and walk out with it.
This. Java applets were first, but the plugin was horrible (slow) and tooling was aimed at programmers, not designers.

I hated flash btw (designers were really creative with it), but in the end it pushed JS and DOM forward, so I guess I should be thankful. :)
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False.

At one point Mussolini was alive. Therefore it is provable that Mussolini could live again.

Sorry, try again.

At one point, these grains of sand were in this glass. Then I poured them into the ocean. But they were in the glass so they could be in there again.

Except no, no they couldn’t. The 2nd law of thermodynamics makes many things non-repeatable.
Why is there no discussion on Docker or Kubernetes or Mesos or container technology in general? I hope the syllabus is revised to include discussion on these two topics, since all major cloud providers are investing much in container deployments—if only for a single day. Also, might be nice if they invited a speaker from Docker (I know a contact at Docker if class organizer needs one).
As I understand it, the dots are just a temporary measure while the team works on implementing better methods of detecting objects.
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I have a desktop I built with two 1080TI GPU and some heavy duty RAM. What are things I can do that wouldn’t have been possible with my laptop or without spending a significant amount of time renting servers on a PAAS?
That is 100% just your opinion. :)

Same as me.
>have scripting completely off by default

Does this mean you have the "scripts" column red and turn them on for individual sites?
The citation that it works is in the article.

Regarding the ROI and subsidies, I guess you would need to compare them to the billions received by the incumbents :)

The power crisis in South Australia has been extremely costly. The cost for the proposed fast start gas power plant was 380 million.

The state-wide blackout cost businesses 367 million.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-09/sa-blackout-costs-coul...

This battery will cost taxpayers 50 million over 10 years, apparently. Seems like a pretty good deal.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-01/tesla-giant-battery-of...
But maybe the UFO are really old machines (like millions of years old) in which case they can take all they time they need to travel and decelerate, such that wouldn't produce drive flairs.
I searched for the word "scary" in the comments and found 0 occurrences. Are you serious???!!!
And then we've then reinvented Java!
Probably a long tail SEO strategy. Next month it will be, "Go's gofmt Explained to Vuex Developers".
Let the user toggle between 1 and 2? Which could be useful for new phones where, even though currently full, you know you won’t be able to charge next.
Unfortunate enterprise IT reality.

They are often stuck in their Microsoft-land as decided by their boss and a third party sales guy, and the selected employees know little and only MS-software and got trained to just do their job, and have little interest in doing anything beyond. It will get interesting when there is no need for them, when get get replaced by the cloud, the mail server is often the first that gets outsourced to the cloud.
Pingtype is my program for learning Chinese. I tried to use Tesseract to recognise some Chinese text, taken directly from a PDF that couldn't copy-paste for some reason. The results were awful.

I tried again with English text. I wanted a word list from a book that helps people learn English, so I took photos of the index. The format is word....page #, in two columns.

The results were just as bad.

I've given up on OCR, and decided I have to transcribe everything by hand. I only do it in my free time, and it's been taking months.

Is there any tool that can take a photo of a book where the pages curl towards the middle, and "flatten" it so that OCR will work better?
Don't forget that programming languages get more abstract and hence more powerful with fewer lines of code. RealTalk has functions you can call to get the physical location of a piece of paper and being based on Lua makes it much more expressive than C++.
You can keep digging down levels of abstraction but the interesting parts of this system are extremely accessible.
This is why I participate in the Stupid Shit That No One Needs And Terrible Ideas Hackathon every year. It's super fun to build goofy things that you can laugh about with friends.
Agreed. But on the other hand, with web a browser can select which features it allows and which ones it ignores. With flash there was no such option. I am really hoping Mozilla gets their act together and protects us users here.
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Not really sure if that is true, but I would really like to see eBay crushed by Taobao.

My message to the Chinese: you give us Taobao, we give you South China Seas. The nine-dashed line. All yours!
Are you sure they don't do that?

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-my-car-feel-more-powerful-aft...

A couple of people there speculate that's what happens to them.

I doubt there would be much backlash - stranding a driver with an empty tank is about the worst thing that could happen short of a breakdown. "Yes of course we do everything we can to help you get to a fuel stop"
> Always vote. Every election, every issue, every race. You probably should vote absentee since you can work over the ballot on your own time rather than give yourself 5 minutes at the booth.

Or you can use your sample ballot and voter info booklet, work it over in your own time, and copy the ballot markings in the booth. There's nothing about in-persom voting that limits the available time to consider options.
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The unified search of Apple TV have helped alleviate this issue to some extent, but the fact that there are so many different platforms with different content makes it feel an awful lot like cable, when you don’t have the package to watch the show you want to see. Purchase from iTunes or Amazon and Piracy often end up being more convenient.
My Google Maps tells me every time when I lose GPS Signal.
Apple Maps still struggles with POI accuracy, and speed of map data updates, but it's much better than it was since launch.
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The track record of billion dollar companies building working software is not exactly impeccable.
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> Special kudos to the guys who are able to solve a problem -with a perfectly optimized solution- in less time than it would take to actually read it =D

oh my
netflix realized that content delivery is no longer a core part of the business when they stopped sending out DVDs in the mail.

instead, they've spent all their energies since on amassing the most lucrative content they can. this is why they started making their own original series and why disney has (implicitly) made the argument that they should be allowed to buy fox.

same as in the UPS & fedex example. the trucks are not core to the business. efficient logistics is.
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Does the compiler also warn when you don't use a literal format string?
I’m sure a graph of Time vs Value for data would have a significant dip shortly after creation, but on the scale of centuries it only goes up. (just look at the Dead Sea Scrolls).
I built PrivacyWall to block all Firefox telemetry urls. It may make your browsing even faster since it blocks all unwanted data collection that happens in the background at the OS level. That means it is more effective than an extension running on top of Firefox, and Firefox cannot surreptitiously send data without your knowledge anymore. If you are working on sensitive projects and this is something you are worried about, I am making it available for free for non-commercial users at http://www.privacywall.org

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I just tried it and ended up being sent here:

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@44.8508646,-93.4259796,3a,15...

Back out of Street View and you'll see I've landed at Prairie Center Dr, Eden Prairie, MN. Is this right?

What's interesting is that if I type "oph chanha" Maps autocompletes "OPH Summerfield Drive, Chanhassen, MN, USA" but then if I hit Enter, it thinks for a fraction of a second then just stops dead. If I hit Enter again it comes up with no results. Interesting glitch!

I did the autocomplete test in incognito to get non-cookie/history-polluted results.
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