skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same as usual: Picking a niche and trusting that Google prefers to spend its attention on improving adwords rather than on inventing a niche product.

Google is scary, because it's unusually competent for a big company. But apart from that it's the same as usual: The bigcos can devote a big team to build whatever it is you're building and then leverage their existing customer relationships to sell it to many of their existing customers. But they usually don't. They work on their big core products instead.
Step 1: expand power - in progress.

Step 2: corrupt power - well it isn't like the FBI hasn't done that in the past.
This is the standard way the russian operate. Rockets as the Soyuz or the Proton are assembled and transported horizontally to the launching site and then erected on the launch pad.
There are a lot of interesting photos of trains moving these large rockets
I was hoping for personal comments from people about the language, rather than generic quotes from companies that are more about trying to market themselves and less about the actual language.

These are kinda interesting in a nostalgic way, but the title promised a much better article.
You couldn’t show them the address written down?
The Duke Lacrosse case wasn't uncovered by journalists, though.
You might find Pony interesting:
https://www.ponylang.org/
I don't think it's completely fair to compare "Safe Browsing Lists" to ad blocking. While I agree and don't like that Google is a gatekeeper of those, it's sparingly used in my experience. Lists like these would require much more maintenance and oversight. I suppose you could say it is similar in how the lists might be updated, which IIRC is via an "extension"-like updating mechanism via crx update files.
> "Displays On Demand"

Whilst I am excited about the prospect of doing this myself, in the hands of the advertising web this is effectively "advertise inside your competitors' store(s)"
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> I have an account on LinkedIn.com

Suggest networking with German expatriates already working in the SFO Tech space. They will better understand your situation, offer advice, and know of inside job opportunities.

You can find these people doing an advanced search via Linkedin. Viel Glück!
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HoloLens costs $3000-$5000. They'd have to get a huge price reduction relative to that for this to be anything other than a niche product.
Dude, I am trying to understand your POV. F&$%# me right? People paying more for something that costs more to provide seems completely logical to me. The anti-competitive nature of the regional monopolies isn't fair and turns all the normal rules on their heads, I understand that. I wish we would fix that rather than regulating the monopolies.
On a side note, who’d put an accent on its username? Any person with minimal programming knowledge could imagine how bad idea that is.
It's not ignorance, if there were such a massive opportunity for a taxi firm in Melbourne, without rides being subsidised by Uber's deep coffers, why didn't one spring up?

It's the same taxi drivers driving you today as would be driving you 4 years ago.
Because there are multiple competing products you can switch to, or even multiple additional products (i.e. ublock/adblock) which you can add in Google's own product if you disagree with their stance.

It's not anti-competitive just because you don't like it.
It was so apparent if you watched just a few exchanges.
You don't want syntax because you don't want Magnetic Poetry kits, having to arrange very special "structure words" in very special places, and hope that "lines" make sense.

Don't think about (Lisp (notation)) -- think about the fact that the entire syntax is "this is enclosing box" (can easily be done with paper by putting smaller sheets on larger ones) and "this is the order of items within the box" (very natural to re-arrange these blocks). Lisp doesn't have lines, in that sense, and lines don't make a lot of sense in physical world.

Just to be clear, I'm not disagreeing about the fact that Lisp is a bit complicated to be first programming language _when writing text_. But its design is great for physical manipulation.
Im sure they won’t have trouble raising their round. Giving off a creepy vibe isn’t going to prevent them from raising money. This is just media trying to find something to write about.
Interestingly, Opera was proprietary with its own rendering engine (Presto) and you could buy a license or you could run it for free with an ad showing (back then, ads were more profitable as well). Bummer they never open sourced Presto. Maybe that inspired Brave. Though you can't "buy" Brave.
> blatant non-sequitur

1. Grandparent claims there's something meaningful behind the name of a degree being prefixed with "Doctor of Philosophy in...".

2. I draw parallels between a "Knight of the realm" bearing no relevance to the martial prowess of the recipients today.

It's just a name, a tradition, it's meaningless.
I pay 12-15 pounds per month here in the UK, for unlimited calls and internet in the world. (I think in Europe I can call any european number for free, but in outside of it I might be limited to free calls to the UK only.)

France was even cheaper with the Free provider. They have 2 euros plans that are useful for most usages. (Internet cap is low but if you use more they charge you cheap fees.)

The US prices were insane for not much.
Surge pricing is actually a great feature. It’s the low base bay, lack of benefits, and screwing with liability that are loathsome.

You had a choice of NO CAB or an Uber at triple rate. Didn’t want to pay? Clearly someone else did. Economics at work.

One of my early experiences with Uber was much the same, trying to get my family home from the national zoo in Washington DC in a sudden rain storm. Cabs — not available. Uber — surge pricing. Totally worth it.

That said I use Lyft exclusively now because of Uber’s moral vacuum.
I'll wait until MagicLeap Token futures exist if I were you
> Regressions tend to be high priority for the devs though so this will be fixed eventually.

"eventually" is right...

This seems to be a failure on the part of the devs to prioritize. AFAIK code that causes a regression should be reverted and fixed properly, not left affecting the product for FIVE YEARS before finding a fix. The burden can not be on every use case to work around a bug that was introduced, the core "fix" is clearly a half-fix and should have been reverted on identification.
That's flat out true. Companies didn't even open the github link.

Your experience suggests that one should contribute to the major open source projects used by the big companies to get noticed by them. That's very different from the usual advice to write side projects.
You're going to make the cost of doing business prohibitively high.
With all the chatter around Uber today, I thought it poignant to remind people about how things could be done differently.

Apropos of this article, the MyTaxi rebrand amounted to the complete destruction of what was a very healthy experience for both customer and driver.

Hailo did what Uber did, but stopped short of trying to eat the whole cake and instead sought to enhance the market that was there by joining up customers to drivers.

This worked amazingly well since you had all of the delightful customer friendly features you get with Uber without the cognitive dissonance that goes with making an established driver's family go hungry.

It was good for the drivers as well because it connected them to a "certain type" of customer and they were even allowed to discriminate based on geography or perhaps even some undisclosed customer rating feature (I honestly don't know if this would be a thing but I believe Air B&B has something similar so why not)?

It was a win win all around. A non-zero sum of technology and business that unlocked an increase in growth in the market without inconveniencing anybody.

I miss Hailo and I hope somebody comes along with a worth successor soon. Maybe http://www.whistletaxiapp.com/ is that App? I don't know. I have no affiliation with these guys but I really want somebody to come along and rebuild this market.
>> is a product of their being in suburban America.

Close, but imho is has more to do with liability, a fear common at all american companies. Car drivers are licensed. They can be expected to obey traffic laws. So when google sends them down the wrong way on a one-way road, nobody blames google. They blame the adult who listened to their phone rather than the signs. But bicyclists are not licensed. If google says that a road is open to cyclists when it isn't, and something bad happens, few will blame the 12yo unlicensed cyclist just following their phone's directions. This is why google, imho, seems to be limiting bicycle routes to those areas with the most clearly defined paths, preferably separate from roads.

And the one-way thing for bike routes is likely based on the widespread understanding that bicycles on roads must obey all the rules that cars do. Going the wrong way on a one-way road is illegal in many areas no matter what vehicle you use. This may never be enforced, but google's legal team probably isn't willing to depart from the letter of the law.
I was responding to my parent, not your comment.

To address your point, I do not see an issue for ISPs charging for PNIs as long as those charges are uniform. If I, JoesFlix, have 100Gbit/sec traffic to Comcast and Comcast says "In order to access EP-Bypass, traffic has to come from AS that has more than 90Gbit/sec traffic to us" then Comcast should not be allowed to prevent me from accessing EP-Bypass. Congestion is bad for business. Sane PNI rules are easy:

0. there's some access fee ( typically it is actually - you must show up in X places - how you get there is your cost )

1. we get even number of PNIs.

2. i order and pay for half

3. you order and pay for half
“Is this contractor thing a little bit on the suspicious side? Definitely. Should They pay their “driver partners” more? Definitely. Do I think that this problem is Uber’s fault? Most definitely not.”

What?

Uber is the sole party that structures the relationship with its drivers and determines the rate it would pay them. Why is it not their problem or fault? And, if it’s not their problem, whose is it?
Cryptocoins are all a big fraud - fake money to buy fake drugs. This comes at no surprise.
That's because having too powerful telecoms is bad for innovation and competition. The final poisoned fruit of successful capitalism/corporatism.
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> In Portugal it is illegal to buy an expensive computer (…) with cash.

A few questions:

1. Are you sure it’s illegal?
2. From what value does that apply?
3. How is that enforced?
4. More importantly, who is in trouble if they do so, the buyer or the seller?

I live in Portugal and have different friends that bought different brand computers on different stores on different years, both paid cash, and in no case was there a problem. In at least one of the cases the cashier just made a quick call to the manager, asked “can I accept it?” and it was done.
Ask HN: Why Twitter hasn't updated its Mac app for the 280 chars limit?
Does anyone know why Twitter has still not updated its official Mac app to support the new 280 characters limit?
What would it mean for the taxi industry to be liberalised?
> “I just don’t understand the younger generation on trying to get their 15 minutes of fame.”

That's a predictable statement from an older person, but I wonder how true it is - there have always people who have done stupid stunts to get into the Guinness record or at least the local newspaper, and many many have died from it. Are there more of these nowadays due to mediums like YouTube, or is it the same people doing it in a different medium?
I am not affiliated with Magic Leap. I do know for a fact though that they have many independent teams working to showcase this technology.
Seriously! haha
It wasn't a comment about lobbying for NSA expansion specifically, but I imagine there's plenty of companies who would benefit from NSA expansion that provide services to the US government.
Maintenance can't degrade any further, but is this a positive sign? ICOs are pretty notorious, and it looks like they want their coin to take center stage.

I've been backing them via Salt (a small amount) for around a year now I think and I'm still wondering where that money's went.

I think bounty based development is one of three critical columns for future OSS but I'd like a slightly more reliable steward.
> Is it just me or the web is becoming more fragmented than ever

No, adblock has been around for a while now, this is just throwing around frivolous claims in an attempt at faux-intellectualism.

The internet is not going to end any more than it did when we put a stop to X-10 popup ads.
It is not.

If Netflix did not have PNIs to Comcast, Comcast internet would have been unusable for everyone.

[Edit: Post more downvotes]

Guess what happens to the Netflix traffic when the best route to Netflix is over Comcast transit?
Compared to the incumbents, Tesla doesn't.
This is also why I switched to uBO
Website repeatedly crashes on iOS, both Chrome and Safari. Hope the QA on their world-changing AR is better the website.
Depends on how you define discretionary here. I say it's discretionary if a human chooses instead of a computer with clearly defined constraints. So if it's not discretionary, can you tell me what the specific rules are for determining something is an ad as opposed to some other kind of image?
That sounds only slightly larger than HoloLens tbh.

For a company with this much funding and hype I expected more than just “a slightly better hololens”.
D’s Newfangled Name Mangling
Show HN: MyHikes.org – share your hiking/backpacking trips via GPX
Like Cookie Clicker, but clicking ads instead of cookies.
Thank you for the correction / rebuke. You're right.
I built MyHikes.org back in early 2015 as a way for me and my friends to document our backpacking and hiking trips. This year I decided to open it up to the public for feedback and to see if there were people out there that wanted to share their trips via GPX. I got a bunch of people to sign up and a bunch of new trail data from 2017. The data set is small, but I'm not really aiming for large numbers, just trying to get new trails to help people find new places to explore.

If you enjoy hiking or backpacking, feel free to check it out. You can import any GPX file from a multitude of apps and devices (like Garmin trackers, etc). All/any feedback is much appreciated.
Building shapes are for AR occlusion.
> I don't think the FCC did, nor can they, create a new "federal law" though, right? The FCC removed a regulation.

The FCC being able to pass and remove regulations in an area means Congress has created federal law governing that area and assigned to the FCC regulatory authority in that area.

Further, even with no federal law, dormant commerce clause concerns come into play.
> and prohibit state governments from enacting their own net neutrality laws.

So much for "States' rights", huh? Fucking hypocrites.

A man is known by the company he keeps, as the old adage goes. Anyone who supports Republicans in any shape and form is also a fucking hypocrite and a liar.
Moderators: the posted link contains a tracking snippet (...?utm_source=reveal&utm_medium=TW&utm_campaign=WTDO)

Would it be feasible to remove it?
Canonical welcome Spotify as a snap for Linux users
15.99€ per month for unlimited LTE in France with 25 GB of roaming in EU+USA included. No binding contract duration, you can cancel with a month's notice.

Only catch is you have to also be subscribed to an ADSL line of the same provider, otherwise the mobile plan costs 19.99€ and gets throttled after 100 GB.
If the OSM database is used as is and not used to modify any of their existing data, the existing data wouldn't have to be released.
IANAL, but it seems to me that the data could be used in conjunction with existing data for the purposes of rendering tiles and not require releasing any other data sources.

https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
Good hypothesis, but I suspect it is because of the search algorithm matching words
"Brian Armstrong responded that he had repeatedly warned his staff not to disclose its launch plans to family or friends or to trade in the digital asset themselves."

So the whole staff new about this move, from which it is to be expected to move the market when published?

Charitably put, that's naive.
If a Hacker can edit download link, they can edit your SHA256 hash
Why do websites list SHA256 hashes next to their download links? If 1 is compromised, the other could be too?
Ever since Lytro made a light field camera I have been waiting for a light field display. It seems odd that it is being developed commercially in a compact AR device rather than a TV sized display.
Most Steampunkish goggles ever.
Some good discussion here: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3922/what-are-the-...

Essentially it boils down to what g-forces your rocket components and payload are able to withstand. Designing for zero (in orbit) and high vertical (during liftoff) is tough enough, but a rocket that's horizontally built/integrated _also_ needs to withstand ~1G laterally. It may not sound like a big deal, but when every kg counts, I believe it adds up to a bunch of additional strengthening parts, plus a lot more FEA at design time.
The worst on mobile is the fake virus ads. There's a script, it's the same one they all use, which out of nowhere will change the URL to some site that spams you with messages saying "Your Android has a Virus!". Every single time it happens, I need to force close the browser. This stuff has to stop.
Yes I am serious. And how is this partisanship when pointing out the need to hold politicians accountable for what they say vs what they do? Care to explain your comment? Why is accountability a sign of partisanship?
4-D Light Field Displays Are Exactly What Virtual Reality Needs
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All of the sudden Mozilla is more relevant.
I also found them to be crazy accurate for walking directions. I always think "well, I fancy myself a speedy native New Yorker amongst all that gawking tourist data Google must have, I can cut down this half hour walk by a few minutes at least". Almost always arrive right on their estimate.
You're right, we owe them a debt for starting this thing. But there are lines you don't cross - they crossed them, and lost all credibility as a result.
So Google is responding to criticisms of overly-intrusive advertising with less-intrusive advertising that doesn't poison the well for everyone, and blocking for the ads that do?

That's true villainy right there, how dare they! /s
Absolutely this; also current customers can launch cheaper satellites, because they're easier to replace. For example, spend $500M on a satellite that has to have extreme reliability due to high launch cost and availability, or $50M on one you can replace at whim.
Great article but it may cause epilepsy. I felt really dizzy while reading it.
Bitcoin, which costs ~$20 to make a transaction now, would be a step back pretty much anywhere this century, or much of the previous one.
The way I remember it is that people were complaining about all the changes in Py2 that were breaking their code all the time. So it was decided to leave Py2 alone and do all the breaking stuff on Py3. The staticness of Py2 made it an attractive target for new development. As a result Python became very popular.

So if they had of just broke everything that very easily could of been the straw the broke the camel's back. Python would not of achieved the popularity it did.

I think the fundamental error here was the idea that languages become popular because of some fundamental quality of the language as a language. That never really happens. It is always something else. In the case of Python it was the "Batteries Included" thing. It came with a whole whack of functionality in the form of libraries written in other languages. No one much cared about the details of the framework for getting at that functionality.
Well it’s time to ask yourself, are those morals and values worth sacrificing your comfort, your sanity, and maybe even your life? Which do you value more?
But but but crytocurrency is so useful right??

1.) It's just like Visa!! Damn it costs me $500 to send $500

2.) It's just like the bank!! Damn another exchange got shut down/frozen. The insiders made out like bandits

3.) It's just like gold! So rare....oh wait, another crytocurrency just came out with 100M unit of supplies.

4.) It's just like dollar! Shoot, coinbase won't allow me to trade it for 3 months! Every country is banning it? It went up 20% then dropped 50% today?!

Oh well, who cares. It's for gambling!!!!
We do not have a culture that is anywhere close to prepared for this kind of technology. It should be patently clear from the past 20 years that this is the case.

For example, here's a realistic vision of how it plays out:

https://vimeo.com/166807261
You're hoping for someone working at Twitter to answer (the only people who could authoratively answer your question).

They might not answer for a variety of reasons that could be bad PR eg "engineering difficulties", "low priority", etc.
OpenTripPlanner already exists:

http://www.opentripplanner.org

I've only played around with it but it seems very capable. It also has a pretty cool analysis tool that lets you see the changes in transit accessibility when a bus/train is removed, etc.
> Having IE pre installed is a necessary. How do you the internet with nothing installed?

Evidently, you can use a CD or 100 floppy disks. But not necessary because IE is the best tool in the world for installing Chrome and Mozilla.
Legally, it matters a lot whether it's the government enforcing rules which restrain trade or a private coalition including the major incumbent players in the industry being restrained.
> The web throws a monkey wrench into a lot of assumptions the free software model seems to make about what software is - obviously you can't download the source of an entire server stack and compile it, much less rewrite and redistribute it, but that would seem to be what would be required for the web to be 'free.'

This looks like a strawman.

For a user of a service there is no difference between a service provider that uses free software and a service provider that uses proprietary software. Proprietary software primarily harms the user of that software --- and in this case it is the service provider, not the user with a browser.

There are different concerns to outsouring computing and/or communication to services, but these are not the same concerns that apply with the use of proprietary software.

JavaScript applications, however, do run on the user's machine and thus the usual concerns about running non-free software apply.

> [Stallman] does seem to believe that only running free javascript somehow makes it safe to run... which isn't true.

I haven't heard him argue that position. Free software obviously can be faulty and it can be unsafe to use.
> Note not all cookies need the notice

Is there a reference for what kind of cookies do and don’t?
I went down the KSC every year during undergrad for the NASA Robotic Mining Competition. In 2012 we had the banquet under the Saturn V rocket. We were also very lucky to see a launch 3 out of the 4 years.

It is really cool to see such a large rocket on its side, and to walk through the control room they used.