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Windows RT, for the record, was a horrifically missed opportunity for Windows to compete with "low-end" ARM devices.

I use quotes as I much prefer the ARM Chromebooks I've owned over the years to any other computer I've used, regardless of price.

Thin, light, cheap and with battery life for millenia.

Microsoft is trying to address this now with running x86 code on Snapdragons (which may well be too little too late), but at the time it would have been trivial for them to build a basic laptop with a 15" form factor and three full days of battery life. I'd have thrown money at that.
By the way, for people who don't follow (aero)space too closely, the aircraft fairing [1] referred to is basically some type of cover/hood, i.e. a passive component that makes something more aerodynamic, with less drag.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_fairing
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Bruce Schneier had a blog post last year, 'Data is a Toxic Asset'. His ideas about what to do are... "We need to regulate what corporations can do with our data at every stage: collection, storage, use, resale and disposal. We can make corporate executives personally liable so they know there's a downside to taking chances. We can make the business models that involve massively surveilling people the less compelling ones, simply by making certain business practices illegal."

[0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...
What's your opinion of Title IX? (Forgive my assumption that you practice in the USA.)

My understanding is that it has college campuses hearing criminal cases.

(I'm British, and only learned about this yesterday.)
I used to like using CDE on Solaris. There was something very quiet about the ui. I mainly used it for running x-terms though. The only gui app I used frequently was Nedit (still my favourite text editor of all time - light, fast and good looking!)
Did you try running the hardware test? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257

I had a old Air which ran very slowly and fans spinning like crazy due to a issue with the cable from the keyboard/touchpad. Apparently if the SMC does not get proper signals it will go into a "failsafe" where things work but slowly.

Probably not the same issue, but just a little anecdote on a similar symptoms caused by different issues so that nobody gets tunnel vision on the battery, which might very well be the cause in this case.
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> all not happening in an Uber

I'm pretty sure similar [0], and worse [1], is also happening on Uber/Lyft, just not to the same scale yet because of taxis services being far more established around the world.

But I don't see any reason why cab drivers would be any more criminal than ridesharing drivers. Unless ridesharing services do some extra deep background checking on their drivers, which I doubt is actually happening.

[0] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/h...

[1] http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/rideshare-incidents
Those non existent tracks can be mapped in Openstreetmap as well, but not exactly as a railway.
Wow, nice and simple. Is that list available in some repository? would like to implement that since I run a dnsmasq bearing router at my home border as well.
For me it's accessibility, style and performance. In my mind, I wouldn't purchase a car above 4k (NZD) unless it's an electric car.

However, there are fewer electric cars where I live (New Zealand) than I have fingers, and the ones that are available cost over 100k or are very ugly (sorry leaf owners but it's not a cool looking car)

I saw the e-golf, felt hope but after learning of it's lethargic 0-100 (0-60) and the fact that it's not even available here, I quickly lost hope.

I don't care if I get a 100km (60 miles) range, I never travel further than that - I firstly want to actually be able to buy one, would appreciate a little thrill, and style that doesn't make me feel like I am making a statement.

Chances are that won't happen, so I'm probably just going to build one.
I never heard of street complete before, thanks!
Depends on whether the drivers owned their cars or were renting. Many drivers rent from the actual car owners, they won't make much. The few who own their cars do well out of Uber.
Is there a list of all the artists whose works won't but should, thanks to Disney, corrupt politicians, et al?
To be fair, Chromebooks require a Google account, which I agree should be completely optional for the user.

Beyond that though, there's very little dependence on Google for apps. The web store opens in a browser window and (if someone were to create one) could easily go to a different store.

Likewise, Android-compatible Chromebooks can use Aptoide same as any other compatible Android device (although Android should be looked at too IMHO - I should at least have the option to say "I trust X app store in addition to Google Play" without removing un-named sources protection altogether. Likewise iPhone.).
I imagine this scenario now in EU, where the Smart Meter Gateway will enter millions of households, tracking the electricity consumption.

Where goes this data? Who will use this information?
I tend to agree. Physical fetishism seems like a retreat from the core values of computing.
> Things like having UBER banned for example in France

You have no idea what you're speaking about, do you? Uber is not banned in France. It's being investigated for multiple suspicions of breaking the law.

> Because they show up in every page, everybody accepts the policy without questioning

Well, if people can't read a notice, I can't see how that's the fault of the EU.

> And worse for the user experience, most often the implementation of websites for those notices is dummy

So now, it's the fault of the EU regulations if websites are cheating with the law and breaking UX.
Edge's renderer seems fine? And being improved at a regular pace.
It's just a cab company. Depending where you live it might be better than the existing cab companies.

It's cheaper than some cab companies, but that's because it doesn't always comply with local regulation and because it's burning money from capital investors.

Uber doesn't make much sense in the UK, where you have the choice of taxis (can pick up from the side of the road, must use taximeters for pricing) and cabs (can't pick up from side of road, can pre-arrange a price).
Most things really don't need a GUI unless you're actually viewing or manipulating graphical data.

Even then it's often nicer to have a text format that describes it.
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The City of Leicester in England has full 3D textured modelling of everything down to trees and the cars that happened to be out at the time.

https://goo.gl/maps/dm8zVDGf5TP2

It's absolutely incredible.
Huge kudos to authors for being upfront about what doesn’t work. I am getting pretty tired of people not doing this more consistently and only put out the most attractive results even when they would have observed many not so good results.

While our samples sound great, there are still some difficult problems to be tackled. For example, our system has difficulties pronouncing complex words (such as “decorum” and “merlot”), and in extreme cases it can even randomly generate strange noises.
Or Henry Ford, of Ford Motor fame.
> Isn't this a violation of the browser choice consent decree, or has that expired?

It's expired (sadly, and rather than the better option which would have been that it should apply to all operating systems).
Yes, some taxis are a pain in the ass. But that doesn't mean that Uber should not be playing under the same rules as everybody does, isn't it?
Mobile app advertising can allow millions of users to access your services.
I personally think motif/lesstif is way sexier than most of the default GTK themes.
I don’t think you should write off anti philosophers like this, although I don’t know wat you know about them.
But still sometimes Apple Maps can find more shops nearby than Google Maps. At least in Barcelona.
Where can we find this list?
Holy shit.

This is exactly what I mean when I say that, if you want to see real corruption, just take a look at regular small businesses around you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15950934
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Do people that sell things on Amazon need to be provided benefits from Amazon? How about AirBnB hosts — should that company provide sick days? How is an independent person with a car selling a transportation product any different than someone selling widgets through Amazon? Perhaps the difference is that Uber sets prices?

I would offer that a free market solution to Uber is to allow drivers to set their own rates — that would result in a far more efficient market. Taxis ought to be able to set their own rates as well. It’s better than this price floor/ceiling situation we have now.
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Quotes from the three comments from when this came up yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15957773 : "Citation needed", "esr is a loon", and "Generalized ESR presumption based on no data and outdated methods".
is there a video/life demonstration that shows off the basic interactions of the system? So far I have not been able to understand what the system is actually doing and how to use it (searched but did not find any demos on youtube)
To go with the comparison mentioned in the article though, Apple maps doesn’t even have an option to cycle at the moment. I never use it in London for just that reason. They’ve decided that it’s more important to add ride sharing as an option before cycling in what I can only assume is a product of their being in suburban America.
> It's like you were limited to fill / charge your car at stations owned by the manufacturer.

Sounds like the Nespresso business model too.
As someone who only knows these interfaces from movies (i think "Eraser" with Arnold Schwarzenegger had a terminal like this), what were the main advantages of CDE compared to other DEs at the time? Or to WfW/Windows9x/OS2/System7?
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Creating data out of data is literally the job of any machine learning model to be honest. And even though it is speculation from my side, but should be not far from the reality because this problem is literally everywhere, that Google spent some really big bucks to do the manual quality control of their data by hiring thousands if not 10s of thousands qualified people. And such quality control itself is quite an art to master, and have to be done on ongoing basis.

With good data, then model can better do the tricks, but data is the real gold here.
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I use Kong EE for a client, I have read Kong EE documentation carefully and made a lot of tests.
The current implementation (0.29) have this behavior (that not meet our needs).

1) All incoming requests are take into account, including those which have been rejected (with 429 error). If the consumer exceed his limit during many consecutive time windows, all the requests of the consecutive time windows will be rejected (with 429 error).

2) For a windows size of 1 second, the computed weight of the previous windows is always 100%. If the limit was reach during the previous second, all requests made in the current windows will be rejected (with 429 errors).
The cartography is pretty good. But I'm convinced nobody who works for Google does actually use Google Maps. The quality of the software and the user experience is terrible and notably worse than ten years ago.

Example 1: I had a saved route map from a long while ago. Google Maps can no longer load that map -- it is quietly truncated to the first 10 stops. Given the lack of support, Google apparently doesn't care about losing your data.

Example 2: The move from 'old maps' (tile based) to 'new maps' (webgl based) was a shambles. It still doesn't work as smoothly as old maps, and old maps had working features removed like the ability to edit routes. New maps still performs terribly compared to old maps -- it's slower, less responsive, and about a quarter of the time clicks do nothing.

I now use Bing maps day-to-day, which is worse than 2010-era Google Maps, but immensely better than 2017-era Google Maps.
To the down voters, it was a genuine question. If the programs are pieces of paper, either they are just toy problems or otherwise you care about losing the paper.
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> Microsoft is trying to address this now with running x86 code on Snapdragons (which may well be too little too late)

I disagree. I think it's a fantastic idea. Windows has a lot of legacy software, which I'd guess is mostly closed source.

If you want to have a laptop with all-day battery life, but run the application from your defunct vendor that's x86 only, then this is a great solution.

For Microsoft, it's the best of both worlds. Lower power consumption of ARM and all the backward compatibility of x86, in one piece of (low cost) hardware. The only other ARM productivity OS (IMHO) is Chrome OS, but it's lacking backward compatibility with pretty much everything. Unless you're going to use a Linux chroot, but that's something only power users will do and not at scale.

The potential of this combination (ARM+x86 emulation) is so huge that Intel is threatening Microsoft/Qualcomm over it. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel...
Is there a site to print maps from OSM? I'd love to print a map of London's train system (an happy to pay for it)
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I was just on a road trip through Spain, France, Italy and Slovenia. Google Maps was good enough for road navigation but not perfect, and some things I really would have expected to work did not: location of service stations on the highway comes to mind.

When searching for places in European cities large and small, Google is missing a ton of information and much of what it has is wrong. Opening times, for instance, or which thing is a bar or a restaurant or a bakery or a shop.

And we found the main party bar in three different (smallish) cities, totally unknown to Google. Thank God we're still social enough to ask the locals. :-)

My sense is that the map data that can be acquired programmatically is very good on Google, and anything requiring human input or verification is relatively weak, especially outside the USA.

This is presumably a big opportunity, long-term, since it's getting easier to have robots acquire data but anything high-touch seems uninteresting to AlphaGoo.
I'd suggest to check outside the USA.

And even where the actual map data is superior, the "we know better what you want than yourself" approach to UI is infuriating: Hiding of map detail/information based on zoom level is LCD design - you have to zoom in ridiculously close to get most of the info you want, and even then you usually can't be sure that the POIs shown are complete.
And don't get me started on "Oooh, you cleared this text field? Lets zoom/move around like crazy!1"
Didn't XFCE start out as an attempt at emulating this UI?
I think you've fundamentally misunderstood how courts and civil justice works.
> Microsoft is trying to address this now with running x86 code on Snapdragons

Is this real Windows or a crippled app store only version?
Netherlands, based on live data: http://spoorkaart.mwnn.nl/ . It exists for some other European countries too, I think.
They probably have a camera and a projector on the ceiling. The camera detects the dots on sheets of paper to be able to differentiate them. You will probably need a computer to code what each sheet is going to do.

> Every scrap of paper has the capabilities of a full computer, while remaining a fully-functional scrap of paper.

this is probably a false statement...
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My local (Denmark) taxi company has an app that is pretty much like Uber: I enter start and end address and can prepay. But, they do obey the law unlike Uber.

I suppose Uber's ease of use has inspired other companies, so it's great there was some competition. But now if Uber wants to return to Denmark, they must also obey the law.

I think in Europe we prefer to not have too much "disruption" and "lobbyism".

The big ongoing corruption case in Denmark right now is an IT company that paid for a $50,000 Dubai "research" trip with IT-bosses from the the local government (in hope of making it back for selling too-expensive IT equipment to the state)

There's a lot of people involved -- so far, a government employee has received a 4 month non-suspended prison sentence for receiving about $7,000 worth of iPhones etc.
Lovely to see this. I used CDE when I was on work experience at Rover and they had a tonne of Sun pizza boxes connecting to their SunOS mainframes.

I remember using early KDE (KDE 2) with a CDE colour scheme to emulate the look.
So Photoshop CS5 being usable is a bug?
> Also taxis don't hire people, people rent taxis and then drive them.

Over here they very much do hire people, taxi drivers are normal employees. The same company is also contracted for temporary work by the local bus company and by the municipality for bringing disabled kids to schools, that sort of thing; it's all the same drivers.

Things are not the same everywhere.
Correct! In fact, I already use a poor mans average. Initially newImage is all black and then:

b=oldImage[x,y];
xa=(newImage[b,y]+x)/2; // poor mans average
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Would a proper average improve the image further?

Let's see...

...here we go: No average on the left, poor mans average in the middle, proper average on the right:

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Yup, it's better. I updated the page with the proper average algorithm now.

Thanks, Brian!
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My local taxi place does all of this too, and has done for a few years.
I read it that way too. I think they fixed a bug that made Photoshop unusable.
Totally agree and I love innovation and shaking up the establishment.

But Uber's story is full lies, deception, sexism, corruption, theft, etc, etc, etc...
>I never, really, took cabs. I can explain the multitude of reasons: Cab drivers with shitty attitudes, refusing to unlock the doors and just cracking open the window to ask how far it was you were planning to go: Too short? Don't want to take you, fare is too small. Too long? Don't want to take you, won't get a fare back.

None of the above is a problem when ordering cabs from a cab company's app. You don't need Uber to get accountable cabs, or to not have to haul them on the street.
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>Same for me. I absolutely understand the criticism of Uber but saying that they are just a taxi app doesn't cut it.
To add more advantages to the list: Full price transparency, pre-agreed price so you don't need to worry that you drive in circles, no driver searching for change for several minutes until you let him keep it.

None of the above are impossible to have in regular cabs + app.

In fact tons of countries already have just that.
Well, for what it's worth, Uber was founded in March 2009, while MyTaxi was founded in June 2009.
Yep, as do cab firms all around the globe, including apps that offer the same experience with regular registered cab drivers.
There were no major Unix DEs at the time IIRC. The CDE was the first joint approach to create one that actually ran everywhere.
Yes, but they sadly diverged towards GNOME rather soon.
During my training I had the opportunity to work at a Sun workstation running Solaris and CDE. I did not find it to be a very comfortable working environment, but I loved the look. Even though I am too young to have been around when CDE was the desktop for Unix systems, I was infected with instant nostalgia.

I have been trying to build CDE myself a few times, but it always failed, and I never bothered to investigate. But I think I know what I will be doing over Christmas on my ancient OpenBSD laptop. ;-)
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There is no objective way to judge people.

For nazis may be bad people but for nazis other nazis are good people.

>Why is it wrong to judge people for the ideas they express and the actions they take?

If you must judge then judge by actions not by ideas.

If the problem is that nazis murder people then a "nazi ban" is not the right solution. The solution is to ban murder.
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"better, free, and easily available" is variable, especially if you're in Apple's ecosystem.
Yes, since new ToS have always been retroactively applied to all previously collected data they offer zero privacy protection over the long term.

Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12760003 (October 2016)

An effective opt-out may help most of the vigilant, but it is in the best interest of those changing the ToS to keep it as confusing/hush-hush as possible.
Have a look at Beast library. It is a part of the latest Boost libraries (1.66). http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_66_0.html
I think 'core values' is a question for whoever is using the personal computer.

Given that this comes from research directly connected to Alan Kay, he at least is well aware of the values of the people who pushed computers from simple calculating machines to things that we create with.

They also repeatedly refer to the research of Douglas Engelbart and his desire for computers to augment humans. So they are at least trying to bring forward ideas from a time when the core values of the personal computer were being considered.
>drawing in photoshop cs5 is almost impossible

usable?
"Artistic operating system?" It says that they created software to interface with networked computers without a screen. Why is that "artistic" and not receptive to the same criticisms that normal technology is.

I for one think it's extremely unfortunate that no one bothered to tell them what a Telex was.... Could have saved the team a lot of trouble.
Software from the 80's tends not to.
> And let me guess: I need to use Soviet sources which are absolutely biased in describing WW2?

Talk about propaganda to me, please. Do you recommend me to watch some Hollywood movies to get the "real" picture?
I really really wish Firefox would actually close the tabs when I quit.
It's like saying Apple Map does the same thing Google Maps does. I don't think it's a good argument if you try to convince me Uber is not innovative.
>>I see this very much as a Microsoft problem rather than a Thunderbird problem,

In a away yes, but is also a Standards Problem. the Email Standards are shit and have needed to be updated for atleast 2 decades now but no one can agree on what should replace them.

For all of Microsoft failings, EWS and even ActiveSync is superior for syncing a users Mailbox, Calendar and other communication data between a central mail server and many clients...
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How is that possible? Were the kids cosigners on the lease?
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They're already earning million's USD per day [0]. I doubt that they would risk that lucrative business by doing something illegal as front-running. That being said, they really should fix the performance of their platform. Yesterday they reduced their API rate limits to be able to handle the load. That's just annoying for traders.

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