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Pretty much. You need to hire the people who know how to do the job right. Ironically showing wisdom in that means the money donated will likely also be used correctly by hiring the right specialists.
The bill only explicitly forbids them from expanding the obligations. It does specify that the FCC has authority to adjudicate complaints. I don't know if that prevents them from publishing guidelines ahead of time, or if that will evolve from adjudication. And, as you point out, the courts will ultimately have oversight over the adjudication- so I suppose in the end, the Supreme Court may end up writing the rules... Of course, this is an early proposal, maybe the final bill will provide the FCC/courts with more guidance.

Why don't we provide feedback to our representatives and work with them on how the Bill can be improved by providing more guidance on rules and penalties?
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I don't want Uber to disappear, but they brought this ruling upon themselves. A lot of taxi regulations are stupid. However, Uber chose to ignore the reasonable ones as well with the "we aren't a taxi company excuse." If they weren't as blatant with subverting the law, I would have more sympathy towards them.
In other words : we have our priorities all fucked up.

They should have postponed until they had their financial infra in place.
As others are noting, it is one side of the story and very blamey. I think this could have been written differently and been on very solid ground instead of the smear campaign it is. A better framing might be:

Lessons learned:

1. If you are not US-based, be aware that there are extra challenges wrt actually getting your money and it may take additional time to handle that piece, so don't delay setting that up and thereby get yourself inti a scheduling mess like we did, which is what led to this decision.

2. Be aware that a favor of this sort from a non bank business is risky. All kinds of things can go wrong.

3. If you can't get your ducks in a row to make this work properly, it may be a de fecto waste of time. We still haven't gotten our money, but made it work anyway. I would have had more time and energy for side projects etc had I not been wasting my time on this debacle.

4. Woodshed told us they are "reorganizing," which sounds like our money is being used as a free bridge loan. If so, that's an abuse of our naive trust. It also does not look good that they have largely stopped communicating with us. However, I still hope they do the right thing and get our money to us.

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Of course, if they had that level of diplomatic skill in house, they might not feel they need a PR company. So, it sort of isn't shocking that they don't really know how to do this well, all things considered. The diplomancers they thought they hired to help craft their public communications are the very people with whom they have a conflict.

I will add that part of the reason to handle it this way is to cover your own butt, not to be "nice" to people who are probably assholes, by the sound of it.
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Cleveland has an Oracle office. The sun shines brighter here now and the birds sing a little louder.
What defines anything? You could spend a lifetime on this problem.

Bitcoin has a continuity in price, in name, in code, in software, all the way back to when people first started talking about it in 2009.

The idea that bcash is and always has been bitcoin is betrayed by the simple fact that there isn't a continuity in price back to the genesis.
> Consider, among many other facts, the fact that Alabama just very nearly elected .....

ANNND how does that have anything to do with "northern eropean" culture being inherently, automatically oppressive?

> If that's not enough to convince you that racism is a serious problem

Yes, racism is a serious problem. And how does that have anything to do with what the person you are responding to just said?
I believe GP means literally re-using boosters that flew in space, not just the design.
It would be great that the people that promote blocking ads would also promote sponsoring the websites that they frequent somehow. There is a real problem out there for all sorts of websites trying to survive and their problems are at least as great as the privacy concerns the ads introduce. Do consider what killing off most of the independent professional info websites will do to the Internet.
I have neither, Why can't he call his fork Bitcoin Cash? He claims that it adheres to the Bitcoin.org idea than BTC.

Him & a vocal community (/r/btc) appears to believe in that. What gives BTC (and /r/bitcoin) the right to the name Bitcoin considering both are forks from the original chain?
Along with an ARM-based 12” MacBook named iBook. #speculation
As far I'm concerned, I've never had "net neutrality"...

If I wanted to run a server (web/smtp/etc.) on my consumer level broadband account, I was not allowed to per TOS. For me, real "net neutrality" would've let me do this, but it's never been the case. I have to jump up to "Business" level account.

This situation is what ISP and corporates want... to get you to pay more for a problem you don't have. And them the power to shut you down and force you to higher tier level of "support".

Comcast pushed one step too far against Bittorrent (and was caught), but this is exactly the power that the big boys want and Title II weakens their argument that what they provide is a managed service not a pipe.
Why would they? That's the freedom of an unregulated industry, you are free to be robbed.
Actually speed is not the main concern for me. I don't plan to the request volume where that would matter. I just want to use the language i know the best and not have to learn something new just to whip out a new prototype.
C# and .Net core is actually my second choice is the C++ Web app ecosystem turns out to be to not mature enough
The problem is that most people won't do it.
Which one is closest to the original design?
Insightful, had not considered this point of view.
Well, that depends on what Britain wants. Norway and Switzerland still have to abide by the free movement rules of the EU (which also includes air space regulations btw), and I though that Britain didn't want that? Maybe read up on the EEA's Guillotine Clause [0] to understand the negotiation room that Britain will have when trying to curb free movement.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine_clause
I don't get the pink plane reference, but this is a good point. I'm conflicted about it. On one hand you are right we should try to use new technology to get to entirely different levels of productivity, opening up "new worlds of ideas".

At the same time, we have built our organizations, relationships, even our own brains to work in a certain commonly accepted way. Everyone can visualize what I mean when I describe a virtual display, which themselves have basically represented virtual pieces of paper as you mentioned. We would be instantly better off. But yes, it would be a tragedy if the better, more revolutionary way of working was discarded for an incrementally better version of what we are used to. I'd hope somehow we could do both.
I'm not in the UK or EU, so I don't know what the mood is or have opinions about how the vote was conducted. But most economists I've read are not bullish on the EU doing better after Brexit, and it seems like "leave" parties have been coming to power over the past year.

Is that view so incorrect?
Do you want to provide some facts to support your claim or are we just supposed to take your word for it? Because, from where I am sitting, it sure does look like they totally sold out.
> MS failed because they had zero footprint on mobile, and I think Apple will fail because they have a relatively small footprint on desktop.

Two possilities here:

They dust off NextStep’s YellowBook support (Cocoa for Windows) and update it to support UIKit.

-or-

What if the parameters of Marzipan is not a compatibility API, but an effort to package the iOS Simulator and your x86 simulator builds transparently for the end user. Then port the iOS Simulator to Windows.

Halo Effect 2.0
My first thought was that WOW this looks much better than all other alternative headsets I've seen so far
That's true. Myopic of me.
TL;DR: Marketing ("The large-scale effort to .. capture and exploit your attention") is bad.

OP should look inward. Him writing a blog post was an effort to capture and exploit my attention. He wants more views on his post. What an immoral thing to do.
It's my computer, my web browser, my time, and my mind.

(Nice article and all, but the implicit question posed by the headline is a no-brainer.)
I used FEKO for some time and it had the best interface for doing optimization out of the EM solvers in my opinion. The development team out of South Africa was also excellent in the brief times I got to work with them directly. Unfortunately after the company was acquired the new monetization scheme didn't work out with my office and we largely switched to CST.
I'm referring to philosophy as the study of matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Applied logic feels like discrete math to me.
There is this one to test against Project Gutenberg, but you have to request by mail:

[1] http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/downloads/ocr-evaluation/
I've had many years of experience with iOS and then started working on a macOS app a year or so ago. Everything seemed overly complicated compared to iOS development.

I ended up using a web view and did a lot of front-end work via HTML to save time!
Bitcoin Classic, like an original product that was brought back due to marketing creating demand.
A lot of money is being poured into professional VR and AR applications right now. It does not happen very publicly. I am aware of a few in-house efforts of big manufacturing companies with rather big team sizes (dozens of developers at least). They are mostly centered around stuff where 3D visualization is beneficial and head tracking allows for that extra bit of interaction and exploration. Think "classic" AR ideas such as information overlays (disassembly instructions for mechanics, etc.). Except that this time around they can make the tracking so good that the overlays are really "there".
> Why are you insisting on self-flagellation?

Because people who externalize tend to learn poorly.
> Which makes oppression a good thing

does it? waxing a bit philosophical here: is existence really any better than non-existence? it's not like anyone has experienced both. :P
As long as they don't interfere with meaningful broadband internet, I think so. It appears to be aimed primarily at Voip and IPTV services and that type of offering, but it may be possible for them to sell access over a "fast lane" service.
The hashtags are also all in all caps, which gives me pause as to their fundamental competence as PR people. All caps lettering is hard to read. It is also viewed by most people online as yelling at people. Neither is a smooth public relations move.
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And that continuity can split and move back-and-forth between forks, as they gain or lose support.

The sum of XBT+BCH price on exchanges fluctuated less than either coin alone.
If they cut the shit and stop splicing the same 3-4 minute ad cut into their on-demand streams every five minutes, maybe we can talk. Especially if they cut the ad providers that go ass-over-bean-box on 50% of their loads, forcing you to reload the stream, and rewatch the same show about eight times to get to the end, because they have disabled fast-forwarding and seeking.
A tamper proof taximeter is useless when the driver can just drive in circles to make some extra money.
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It's truly ironic (and unfortunate) that the UK's tribulations to leave the EU have such close parallels to its difficulties joining its predecessor. In many ways, it demonstrates the weakness (both now and then) of the British economy and (peaceful) political force projection when pit against a united continental core -- led then by France and Germany, nowadays by Germany and France.

The UK has much more military leverage than economic leverage. The question of the common market is an economic matter, but the free movement of peoples can go either way. There are factions in all states that would rather treat the latter issue as a matter of civil defence, but that would require the UK engaging in force projection so close to home, which it has for almost half a century closely avoided.
That's exactly the problem the Brave browser is trying to solve, I highly recommend checking it out: https://brave.com.
The guidelines ask us not to do this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's the plan. The center core at sea on the ASDS, both side boosters back at the Cape.
Whoa, taxis showed up 2 out of 3 times for you? The official study has it at 49%:

https://archives.sfmta.com/cms/rtaxi/documents/2005TaxiAvail...

I even remember when the number was lower ...
Among other things, they open sourced the Ceres library, which the imaging pipeline relies on.
Won't work for my parents.
How does this work with packages like TiKZ or TiKZ-CD? Right now I’m perfectly happy with auctex and aquamacs, but if this did real-time tikz rendering then I would be sold.
> In reality though, there is still today very few engaging content which leads to a lot disappointment.

I keep hearing this from some sections of the VR community but I my personal feelings are entirely opposite. I simply don't have enough time for all the good VR content I've got access to. My backlog is growing.

Do you have incredible amounts of free time or do you have very specific tastes? Tilt Brush and Google Earth alone should be enough to keep a normal person entertained for most of their natural life!
Problem is that they've already caught up. Now they are competing and passing in some areas.
> If there is another side to the story, whats taking so long to tell it?

To play devil's advocate, they need to be able to respond to the accusation well. They can't just jot something down and fire it off, right? They're starting off in a defensive position, and need to address the accusation in away that paints them as the good guys (which they might be).
Too bad for many downvotes, this will be a legit use case for many. Porn drives lots of tech innovation.
> Read about ancient Rome and what problems rose when mad emperors decided to replace money with new coins out of the blue

I think it was a reference to one of the previous comments in the chain.
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The issue is that if you have a transparent display for AR, light from the background goes through it. There's no way to just "put a white framing layer behind it" because the light the display puts out is being added on top of whatever light is coming through from behind it. This is what happens with Microsoft's HoloLens headsets.

Magic Leap is claiming to have occlusion of background objects working, but hasn't really explained the mechanism. It sounds like it's some sort of "light field" trickery where they let the light through, but your brain knows there's a virtual object in front of it and mentally processes it out. Cool if it works, but I'll need to see this to believe it.
>Finally we have a medium that can open up entirely new ways of doing things with computers, yet so many people just wish it could replicate the old ways.

Right. But to invent the new ways, I need access to A) a replication of the old ways, B) source/config/whatever so I can evolve the Next Big Thing. Without this use case in mind, we're effectively stuck on keyboards and monitors.
Microsoft failed because they had few developers for either the desktop or mobile version of the framework. The countless Windows apps did not become buildable on mobile. If Apple makes it easy to add OSX support to existing iOS apps, they will have a lot of success.
What is the rate of spending in industry on displays vs computers? My general feel is people skimp on displays and over spend on compute. So it would be hard to fight that trend.

Secondly with VR as a desktop replacement... This is simple math. A 4k (or higher) 30" monitor will always be easier and cheaper to build and worst case the same. Except it's at 3' from your face. Shrink that monitor massively and stick it inches from your face. More expensive. Now do the trig on how many and how small of pixels would be required to pay that same resolution from 3' to 1"... Massive downscale... But great we'll get there on display density.... Except, and this is the kicker... For a lot less you can just upgrade the 4k monitor.

Basically unless something fundamentally changes in display tech or we hit a Max resolution that people care about... Miniture displays will mathmatically lag large displays. Yes smartphones tipped the balance but it all got rolled into desktop displays and tvs.

So you lose on econimics and math.

A display tech with massive resolution but something that inherently keeps it from scaling would be a big kicker. Or as some people have said... Hitting 16k or so resolution on VR screens per eye and your dream is there.

Till then gaming is a massive tech driver... Not people using spreadsheets
IMO the effort to fight NN should have been spent fighting this.

The end consumer will eventually see the costs of losing NN. The cost of losing privacy is not as obvious in the short-term.
Is it safe to install on a Dell XPS 15?
Ask HN: What is the point of encryption at rest?
Every time there is a data breach, one of the take aways is that the company didn't encrypt their data at rest. The implication is that if they had encrypted at rest, then the data would not have been stolen.

But at rest encryption only protects against someone stealing the actual storage device (and even then, only if they cannot also steal the key). This is a major issue for mobile devices like laptops, but in a data center this means the attacker has physical access to your storage and servers. And once they have physical access, there are lots of other ways that they could compromise data and systems.

So how often would at rest encryption actually have prevented a data breach? Why is it being treated like a major preventative measure?
> I often hear people say, “I use AdBlock, so the ads don’t affect me at all.” How head-smackingly wrong they are. Even if you don’t see the ads, you still see the ad for the ad (i.e. the product itself). You still get design that exploits your non-rational psychological biases in ways that work against you.

I don't understand how the website design manipulates you even when you've blocked the ad. I need an example here please.
Yes, that works, in all browsers. I assumed it's something related to 3D graphics, but that doesn't really help me with troubleshooting it. Other WebGL demos (like the famous ball-in-water one) work fine. Only Google Maps is broken.
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I wonder if Dynamicland is looking into VR at all? That would be a really interesting mix!

https://dynamicland.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15962730
The user experience I want includes USB ports, an SD card slot, replaceable batteries, and the escape key.
If you called three companies and waited half an hour, odds favored at least one showing up.

But, yeah. Things were pretty miserable unless you were somewhere taxis actually wanted to be.
In New York the medallion system was introduced when the supply of taxis exceeded demand. Medallions were a way to control supply and artificially inflate fares, which were also regulated. Unfortunately the supply of medallions has not kept pace with demand which caused medallion prices to skyrocket from ~$3000 ($50k in 2017 money) at their introduction to over one million dollars in the mid 2000s.

Market forces clearly aren't dictating the number of medallions, it's political. Given that fares are still regulated, there's no benefit to creating a shortage of taxis other than inflating the price of medallions. Who benefits from the inflated cost of medallions and who rents them out to taxi drivers?

Don't tell me it isn't lobbying or bribery.
Google Maps is by very, very far away the best mapping solution available in the UK.

Nobody else's business data is even close. Like not even 15% close.
Wasn't "Magic Leap" a holographic display powered by lasers??

And now it's an AR-glass, one amongh several AR-glasses. So they pivoted and the holographic display is dead?
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Criptomining in wifi or ethernet
Ad companies don't get to choose which browser their ads are viewed with. Google is abusing their position as the market leader in one market to gain an unfair advantage in another market.
I like this vision, but without the stupid AR goggles. Screw AR, figure out animated holography!
the exploitation is the critical element

the author won't ever take your money. the ads will
I actually liked the mindset you presented - "sharing passwords is allowed in practice". In other threads on HN in the past, I've seen people complain about why we are still using passwords and the like; but as I was reading your comment, it made me think that we lost sight of the purpose of passwords along the way.

Obviously, safeguards for personal things is important, but the other way you see passwords used (at least in fiction) is for groups - secret door knock, "What's the password?" said by some bouncer through an eye slit in a door [1]. In this perspective, password sharing is a norm. It can be seen as a means to signifying your membership in a group... that shares Netflix.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU5hCMAH-o4
> It's hard to build high-enough fidelity into the hardware at a reasonable price point. And even if you did make VR goggles that were great for giant spreadsheets at $1000, it would be a weird enough idea that it would have to be massively better than $1000 worth of monitors to get people interested.

I doubt that. If you make a VR/AR/?R version of a Bloomberg terminal or Factset then finance firms will literally roll up wads of cash and throw them at you. It doesn't have to be massively better. It just can't be worse which is the real hurdle. Granted I'm not an expert on the subject but every VR/AR app I've seen that claims to be the "$APP Killer" simply sucks.

This is the same reason nobody has dethroned Excel in finance. There's plenty of things that solve specific sub problems but the generic, "I have tabs of data and I want to slice and dice it" always goes back to an analyst exporting data to an Excel file.