skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and to me this looks like they've (quite reasonably) reached the decision that skirting labor and transportation regulations is not a legally valid form of "disruption". (See also: Airbnb's ongoing regulatory tussles with various municipalities over what constitutes a "hotel".)

That's not to say that the local taxi interest doesn't have a vested interest in pursuing this - they most certainly do, and they're just as certainly protecting their own interests. Even still, nothing about this ruling strikes me as "protectionist": the court is simply saying "you operate a taxi service, therefore you must follow the same rules as other taxi services". This is quite different from "you operate a taxi service!? Too bad, you can't operate here."

IMHO, "innovation", "competition", "disruption", etc. are not valid reasons to completely ignore laws. I have little sympathy for Uber at this point, since their modus operandi at every turn has been "ignore the laws until someone rules otherwise, then continue to ignore the laws until someone enforces the ruling". That, quite frankly, is bullshit, especially in a case where the relevant laws exist primarily to protect public safety and the rights of employees. (Contrast this with copyright law, which has a rich history of overreach and regulatory capture, and where there is a much stronger moral argument that the laws are unjust.)
Especially that part :

> it will be blocking all ads from sites where even one ad displayed on the site doesn’t meet those standards, even if the rest are technically in compliance.

Which can be interpreted as : "only run Google ads, if you use other platforms and we don't like even one of their ads we will block all your ad revenue."
Can someone explain to me how it's evil for them to charge more money for a "bigger pipe"? Their networks can only service so much traffic; not sure why supply and demand are seen as evil in this case.
Is there anything states can do about this?

And, if this passes, is there any way to protect myself? Obviously if the NSA is hoarding zero-days there isn't much you can do, but what are some practical steps?

1) avoid airports and security cameras

2) use an offshore VPN at all times

3) don't use the phone, use E2E encrypted calling like Signal

4) use cash as often as possible, or cryptocurrency

Or does none of that matter?
Finally ! Waited for sooooooooooo long.

Just as I start my PhD too, nice.
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You know how Amazon, Google and Azure do their best to make pricing unpredictable, their competing offers impossible to compare, etc? Well, this tool aims to fix that :)
How would the quality of crowd sourced collections be enforced?
I know this is a stretch and quite a loop of a situation to jump through to make my thoughts true but could we liken his sale of his LTCs in a similar vein to a Facebook's Lead Developer deciding to deactivate their account because they spend too much time on FB being distracted when they should be working?

I know the financial ties and importance of that developer's personal use of their product is very different from LTC and it's Charlie's situation, but will 100% of people really not believe he wanted to focus where he wanted and also remove certain aspects of criticism? Is it possible that he both knew that criticism would come either way and less criticism would come from the choice to sell his LTCs away considering he knows, himself, that he will have more time and energy to improve LTC since he knows he's being honest (I assume of course)?
Any specific reason of why should we "stop this" or is it just because EFF is cool and says so?
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> In this case it's like the founder of Litecoin is saying "I want Litecoin to evolve in a decentralized and organic way. It is meant to evolve without a singular influence, including myself".

He might be saying this but thinking: "great, now is the best time to cash this thing out and let it burn". Well played and probably more is coming.
"Got a check" isn't the same thing. Somebody subsidized that check I think. We also have cities subsidizing aluminum recycling, which pays nobody and has no ecological benefit.

I'm just practical about what theatre I endorse, and what I skip.
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> One could even run WINE on say a Raspberry Pi, together with QEMU.

I've seen retro gamers do just this for old Windows games thus saving them having to running a massively outdated and insecure version of Windows on custom built arcade cabs.
I guess the user upvoting system that we implemented similar to Product Hunt or Hacker News would help to keep the quality of the collections high enough. By the way we have built this web-site without code based on a Product Hunt Clone template from here https://zeroqode.com :)
Is anyone else fatigued? The effort required, ontop of just having a normal functioning life, to parse and make decisions around potential future law is incredible.

Isn't this what elected officials are ment to do on our behalf?
You might think that, but high schools in the United States are largely still using these devices, even purchasing new ones.
Keep in mind that CDE is not exactly bare bones desktop environment (although in comparison to KDE/Gnoome it is not especially resource hungry). When compared to things like LXDE or Xfce which really are window managers bundled with few applications CDE is real integrated desktop environment with object model, probably only two other portable unix desktop environments are KDE and Gnome.

Also, 15 years ago 256MB RAM in laptop was on the high-end side of things and 128MB was completely sufficient to run KDE/Gnome with Mozilla, Evolution and what not.
> While I understand that all in business terms, they're missing a critical component - sufficient proven demand to support enough volume to justify these investments

Probably BFR will lower the launch cost low enough that would create new customers.
I sometimes got the impression they do but still present it as car. I've got highly unrealistic driving times of a car in Bangkok that were very close to my actual driving time on a scooter for example.
>>> Why would they switch to Windows?

What I love with my Linux is the total control I have over it. I can customize many things, have my own desktop environment while leaving other members of the family with KDE. I can update what I want, install apps with "aptitude" super easily and nobody ever asks me for my position, my age, phone number or email. Life is sooo quiet on my Linux.

(Linux "breaks" (more exactly, userland stuff) more often than windows, but when it breaks I can do something about it and learn a thing or two while I fix it).

Plus the community is vibrant.

I'm lovin' it :-)
To the degree formal verification adds economic value to smart contracts, it will get attention. The attention is a side effect of the primary uses. To put it another way, many contracts are agreed without having been reviewed by both parties' lawyers and negotiated back and forth. Largely this is because the economics including calculated risks, the amounts exchanged, previously established trust, etc. don't meet a party's threshold for paying for legal services because the purpose of the contract is not "to hire a lawyer."

Perhaps analogously, the business uses of encrypted communications over the web has not led banks to invest in cryptographic testing. Banks tend to buy and rely on off the shelf products and when smart contracts are adopted, they are likely to behave similarly.

[Edit: where the opportunity may lie is at the nexus of the computer science and the legal profession: Paying legal council to formally verify a smart contract.]
I must have missed the memo. Did coinbase specify other cryptocurrencies (specifically) that they would be supporting in the future?
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Meh, I'm not convinced "diversity of thought" is worth anything. If I say 2+2, and you say 6, well, maybe your thoughts deserve no platform.
What about Ghostery?
Yesterday it was hell as I was caught on the other side of a trade.

I've been successfully day trading making $300/400 a day, and it's great. But I missed out.

Missed out.

And had to hold overnight.
Good for you. Then you should have a setting that allows you to re-enable it.
If you like that, you'll love the N1! http://i.imgur.com/6t2S5zu.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)
Star Trek Discovery and the Orville: two versions of the same show?
What is IOTA?
I had a Lyft driver tell me exactly the same thing a few weeks ago. They drove for both Lyft and Uber as well as a more conventional taxi job of some sort. And they specifically called out the paid instantly as a big advantage for Uber/Lyft.
Delay for risk mitigation on exchanges are known. You transaction will settle on a 3rd business day.

After a wire is authorized by a broker (i.e. passed authentication and the person making a request is authorized to make it and the margin is satisfied and there's no block on the fed level), it will be posted by your bank on the same fed business day if the wire is authorized before fed cut off time.

Coinbase is a VC-funded shady co if it does not operate based on strict and known confines. Banks and brokers spell out the confines (new account rules/withdrawal rules/funds availability rules) at the opening of a new account.
Companies are not monolithic entities, they're made up of people. If you truly believe that companies never do something because it's the right thing to do, then you can't honestly believe that people ever do something because it's the right thing to do.

I don't see any direct economic or legal upside for MS doing this. However they've now got a very positive NYT article on it and the associated positive PR, so there's certainly some economic benefit in the long term, even if it's impossible to measure.
On top of that, there are also numerous locations where taxis simply didn't exist.
Thinking about logic is a discipline of philosophy.

Applied logic is math.
The architecture is inherently different: it works fine in Windows because there's only one canonical key state and the operating system is looking after it.

Wine, on the other hand, is running within X Windows, and the canonical key state belongs to X. It's in a different process and it might even be on a different computer. So either they have to poll it (slowly), arrange for asynchronous notifications (may not be possible and undoubtedly has similar conflicts with synchronous access), or poll it a limited amount and then cache it.

The whole point of Wine is adapting one API to a fundamentally different one. It is the added layer of complexity.

Edit: another discussion suggests the X by design does not allow an application to see keystrokes aimed at another window, nor is there a global hook mechanism.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5623
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> Why don’t you see consumers or some other group besides the local taxi interest taking them to court?

I've always seen Uber as a taxi service and I have no interest in taking them to court. I've never been tempted to take a traditional taxi service to court either though.

I don't think that really matters though. What is a taxi service? My dictionary says a taxicab is a car licensed to transport passengers in return for payment of a fare. That fits pretty closely to how I use Uber, so I'm fine with calling it a taxi service. It's a duck-typing perspective I guess.
Yes this is a very good point. I asked an Uber driver in London if they put any restrictions on driving time and he confirmed that they did not. Might have to rethink that one.
Anyone know the logistics of watching the launch?
Is there a public viewing spot?
Do you need to get tickets?
Where to park?
Seems like this only works with Twitter unfortunately.
That would be unfair to other streaming services e.g. YouTube, Hulu, HBO, Amazon, etc.
Breaking news Law proposed which would allow EvilCorp to charge more money for the services which cost more to provide.
The total value of US dollars in circulation steadily and rapidly increased during the 20th century as it become used as the worldwide currency in many aspects. The per-USD value was lowered (as explicitly intended) by increasing the money supply to ensure that there would be an inflationary, not deflationary regime - e.g. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2 shows a nearly 50-fold increase of USD supply just since 1959.

If LTC gains widespread adoption and utility, the total value of all LTC in circulation will unavoidably have to increase; in essence, the total circulation value (supply * velocity * value) of a currency has to match, by definition, the total value of goods and services traded in that currency. Since LTC supply is limited by technical means and can't/won't be increased (like USD), this inevitably will mean a significant value increase of each LTC.
No, the ECJ doesn't say that it is a taxi service, the ECJ says that Uber should be regulated as a transport service instead of an information service
My how you have forgotten the 90s.
The skeuomorphic design "battle" is a myth. Look at the iphone settings icon today: there are no gears in your phone. Skeuomorphism lives on, we just believe what The Submarine tells us.
Not that Uber can be trusted, but they claim they're already in compliance with pertinent laws. In other words the effects have already occurred. It seems like this case was an attempt to reverse that condition and they lost.
They are using people's locations in real time for traffic.
>Traffic density is gathered via crowd sourcing from smartphone users using Google Maps on a mobile application in a route. In a nutshell, Google™ is analysing the GPS-determined locations transmitted by a large number of smartphone users. By calculating the speed of users along a length of road, Google™ is able to generate a Live Traffic Google Map™.

https://www.drivingdirectionsandmaps.com/traffic-conditions-...
Wow I thought the only "bad" law that was passing was a big tax cut. Shame on me for paying attention to the news media. Good timing for NSA, though! Suspiciously good...
Everyone believes their opponents are dangerous idiots. Democracy only kind of works because people listen and tolerate each other anyway. The massive amount of political polarization you are creating is going to destroy the country.
This line of thinking is why we have ridiculous bloat. I use to run servers that will have 50+ simultaneous users and these servers will have 256mb of ram. Today 256mb of ram is probably not enough for most simple apps. As a matter of fact, I was shopping for 128gb-256gb ram server yesternight. :-(
> Just use uBlock Origin.

Has there always been a uBlock extension for Safari? That was my last holdout for using ABP. I've now manually installed the downloadable extension but ABP is prominently displayed in Apple's Safari extension app store.
Because the last mile is (sometimes) truly bandwidth limited. But the trunk lines aren't. Now they just get to extort money from us or artificially throttle us. Worse, they'll likely (as they have everywhere else) extort money for websites they have no connection to (like Facebook or Twitter) just because they can. Like an entrepreneurial thug standing outside a club and extracting an extra fee to let folks in. Or paying protection money to the mob. Like that.
It would be very cool if someone combined this with open GTFS data and a public transport routing algorithm. Imagine having a "public transport" option in the list of routing services - just like Google Maps - but using free software/data and on a global scale.

It looks like Graphhopper introduced an algorithm for transport routing this year [0], although there are still performance improvements to be made. Project OSRM seems not to be interested in adding this feature for now.

[0] https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/pull/1018
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Is Chrome going to block ads on the Google search results page for taking up more than 30% of the page?
Yes, yes... don't explain, just downvote.
I don't want to be discouraging to anyone. Please, do anything you think will be helpful.

But the NSA's equipment is still in hundreds of network equipment rooms, and the data is being split off recorded and rifled at will. They'll tell you they're "not collecting" your data, but they are. They're just using some strange NSA version of English where siphoning your data and storing it on hard drives is not "collecting" it.

I advocate the peaceful destruction of their facility in Utah and any other similar facility.
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If someone else already has access to your user account, it is a little bit pointless to have passwords on specific applications.

Secure your entire account, instead of individual applications.
Regards to comments mentioning that this is three F9s strapped together: While this is somewhat true, the development of this program was apparently lot more difficult than just tying them together. I remember Musk mentioning that they had underestimated the problem, the two additional boosters changed the dynamics significantly, and the core booster had to be redesigned to accommodate the new load parameters.

Needless to say, I'm extremely excited to even see a static fire of this monster. Re-using boosters for your early development is pretty nice and efficient too I imagine.
Uber says they already mostly comply:

"The ruling is the first to apply to Uber across the European Union. In a statement, the company said that it already operated under the transportation law of most European countries in which it did business, and that the ruling would have little impact. It added that it would continue a dialogue with cities across Europe for its services."
+1 on that. Uber is great for a couple or a pair of friends.
I'm happy to see the website stressing something I've thought VR would do well: Act as a display for my computer desktop. I would love to just take my laptop and these glasses with me and be able to have N screens all around me anywhere I want. Imagine working at a cafe with various large displays all around you showing all the windows you have open.

If this is cheaper than my three displays (and the resolution isn't too terrible), it's already saving me money.
To be fair, that's because "adblock" basically defined the space. They are entitled to the name recognition, since they built it themselves. It's a bit like WinZip vs 7-Zip.
From what I understand, the difference is that even if you pay more for that faster internet, you may still not load sites as fast because they haven't paid the ISP for their traffic to be prioritised over others.

Also if you run a website and have paid for a decent connection to serve your site through, you may still not be able to serve that site as fast as you can without paying additional ISP's to prioritise your traffic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/us/trump-immigration-slow...

Gaming the system is not a strategy. Sorry about yer luck.
All you and the companies that hire you are doing is playing a game of liars dice.
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I think the key difference is that the initial value is not gains, it's much more like income.
You're right, and now I cannot edit it!
1.

The first launch did not fail due to that electronics issue though that was one of the first things to go wrong.

The propellant leak caused by Engine #2 issues is what caused the rocket to fail.

4.

Maybe if they had not shut them down that abruptly they could have avoided that particular failure mode.

All in all a pity that that program got cancelled, I still think it is one of the most beautiful rockets ever built.
One of the main reasons I bought the LG V20. With easy to swap batteries, I plan to replace them every year or two and maintain a good screen time.
Sparrow has been dead for over 5 years so not exactly a modern thing, it was apple only, not cross platform anyways so not comparable to thunderbird.

Airmail is also apple only so useless to most people.

Mailbox was a phone only app that stopped operating last year, again not a cross platform desktop client.

You're welcome to try again, but AFAIK there are no such "modern" cross platform desktop email client that you throw around as a model to follow.

Even your current Inbox by google is a phone only / web only application and not a cross platform desktop email client.

Claws[1], sylpheed[2] are such cross platform desktop email client competing with thunderbird and I don't any of the features you're complaining about

I do not know what you are referring to when you mention thunderbird has awful spam protection. I maintain a dozen of TB installs and they do a great job of filtering spams for those who do not know better email hygiene.

You should try experiencing email outside of the giant mega centralized repository that is killing the web and internet and see how it's done in the outside world that you seem to not visit often.

[1]: http://www.claws-mail.org/
[2]: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
The point is (as with so many things) money. If I remember right, ABP makes money by allowing "friendly" ads if they get payed for it.
Depends on your opinion of this decision: https://adexchanger.com/data-exchanges/ghostery-sheds-ad-tra...
It feels like Crystal is coming up more frequently on HN and Reddit than it did in the past couple years.

I'd be curious to see actual usage numbers as they've changed over time.
Because maintaining two separate GUI frameworks is utterly pointless.
Yes. I give to the EFF and a few other select causes each year, but I just can't keep up with individual issues. I just plan on waiting it out for the next 4 years.
I don’t really have anything intelligent to say about the article, but I love rambling surveys of history and literature like this and I’m glad they get posted here from time to time.
I moved into a newly-constructed home two years ago.

I first tried to correct google, and I was told I was wrong.

So I tried again, and they fixed it.

Then a 'local expert' decided it was wrong and now my address is on the wrong side of the road and none of my attempts to change it to be correct has succeeded.

[edit] It looks like I can't even suggest an edit on it as it's a Post Code that's incorrect.
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IIRC they have the same problem as ABP, i.e. selling out their users.
Increasing the block size doesn't seem to me like a long-term solution for Bitcoin's scalability problem. From the tone of your post though, it seems like you're mind is unlikely to be changed about Bitcoin Cash.