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I don't know about the US, but in the UK one reason to avoid building on old railway lines is that they might technically still be railway infrastructure. For example, the newly-rebuilt Borders Railway, south from Edinburgh, was only able to be built because in a limited sense, it had never stopped being a railway so many of the required permissions were already in place.
Europe, however is a bureaucracy in the truest sense.

Civil "servants" walk around like royalty, look down on the plebeians, have their own state television and generally exploit the population.
> It's a monolithic system

FYI, Windows is anything but a monolith - especially the kernel. It's heavily built around services and message passing.

Whereas actually Linux is a monolithic kernel (granted, the ecosystem on top is not so much).
Same, even though Google Maps has "offline abilities" it's still nowhere close to what HERE Maps have had for years.
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So the term "Mini Cabs" are a result of confusing arising from weird local regulations in UK cities. The same as people think its normal that in NYC you can get a "Black car" which is different from a (Yellow) taxi.

But again: all these terms are just effects of the madness that is a local monopoly on one type of ride service (typically, but not always, the one that can use taxi stands and be hailed without pre booking on the street).

This has made people associate "taxi" or "cab" with just that one type of ride service, in their city. Which is understandable - but it makes no sense when discussing laws across a continent, or worldwide.
"Taxi" has a very simple definition: it's a vehicle for hire with a driver. An Uber is a taxi service even if it's not (yet) allowed to perform the same services as a yellow cab in new york, or a london taxi
I do the same - my approach was to take some of the popular /etc/hosts files (like http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero) and sed them into dnsmasq format:

# before: 0.0.0.0 evil.biz
# after: address=/evil.biz/0.0.0.0
sed 's#^0\.0\.0\.0[[:space:]]*\([^:]*\)$#address=/\1/0.0.0.0#'

which goes in a file in /etc/dnsmasq.d/, with this line in /etc/dnsmasq.conf:

conf-dir=/etc/dnsmasq.d

The results can be trimmed a lot, e.g. if you have rules for a.evil.biz and b.evil.biz, you can usually reduce those to a rule for just evil.biz. I wrote some scripts to help with this, which are now at https://petedeas.co.uk/dnsmasq/. I might write something up about the process later.
To the author of this writeup: thank you, this is a phenomenal story with compelling visuals. Oftentimes I prefer HN comment thread to the original, but in this case I am impressed by high quality analysis of the original :)
Nokia and others had/have the same, just with less coverage. It is mostly a matter of having money to acquire all the data. The technology to turn imagery and laserscans (or similar) to 3D surfaces is booming for more than a decade.
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What does a single-person facility have to do with it? Why is it legitimate to segregate multi-person facilities based on gender identity but not on sex?

If men’s restrooms are dangerous for trans women then certainly they are dangerous for gay or gender-nonconforming men as well. These men certainly have as much right to avoid a dangerous situation as trans women do, no?
I never had such huge problems with taxi. Just about the only one I can relate to is them taking only cash.

When I call for taxi, they ask where I want to go, so the whole window situation never happen.
You know what? I appreciate the authors drill-down into the "how" of this issue but I'd like to focus on the "why".

Why, has it taken so long to get off of python2.x- noted I understand that a few libraries coughtwistedcough have been holding projects back that depend on them. But I haven't wrote a single block of code in half a decade that wasn't python 2.x and python 3.x compatible.

At what point will we exclusively be developing on 3.x? I'm quite tired of the apologists claiming that making/maintaining things in 2.x is totally fine. At the very least you could run a pass of `2to3` (which is generally quite mature today) before claiming that it's difficult/impossible/too time consuming.
Are really all the projects you are submitting your projects? Because that's what Show HN is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Home Assistant also had a recent discussion already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15521743
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I'm pretty happy with the way CS6 works with PlayOnLinux(Ubuntu 16.04, Wine 1.7.24-CS-0.9.1-DXHR). It's not perfect, but I have no problem getting the work done (mostly design). I wouldn't use it for drawing/painting though.

If you're interested in doing digital art on linux - I highly recommend checking out Krita. I've discovered it a year ago and was blown away, if you're an artist - it does everything you may need, and works extremely well.

----

Slightly off topic - I'm also quite happy with using linux for the rest of my digital art needs:

- Kdenlive is an excellent video editor. Works extremely well, and is pure joy to use.

- Nuke and Houdini have native linux versions that work perfectly. I think Maya should work fine too, but I haven't tested that.

- Silo 2.5(most recent version) works flawlessly under wine, and is perfect for any 3d modeling.

- I don't develop games, but both Unreal and Unity work very well.

The point is, several years ago you couldn't realistically use linux for professional 2D/3D work, now you totally can.
But this is not something you deal with a rate-limiter. By your logic, then a sufficiently large botnet would dwarf any live traffic whatsoever, implying you’d probably want to filter them on network level instead.
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Those countries have nowhere near the same consumerism culture as the United States.
Exciting in any case as an extra-solar/interstellar object. My mind jumped to the movie Lifeforce. Frozen vampires inside!
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I first used Google Maps for cycling over 7 years ago.
The average person would go right back to taxis if the price was lower.
> AirBnB is next I guess.

I think it already started. If you sublet your apartment you are either a landlord or a hotel service, and have to follow all the safety/fire/health/ regulations for one of those. It's pretty obvious you aren't supposed to be allowed to just "share" your apartment for a fee, where some startup unicorn takes a nice cut because they cornered the market with a web site.

So yes. Uber and AirBnB are innovators in the sense that they aggresively invade legal gray areas. I think they will fundamentally change markets (e.g. will cause taxi monopolies to be removed, or reduce the red tape hotel businesses) - but they won't exist in a decade doing what they do now.
> Do people that sell things on Amazon need to be provided benefits from Amazon?

No, they're not working for Amazon. And if they're selling large amounts of things regularly, the local equivalent of IRS will kindly remind them that they should be doing it as a business.

> How about AirBnB hosts — should that company provide sick days?

No. But hosts putting their property on AirBnB regularly should also comply with appropriate regulations, which most likely will involve them registering as a business.

> How is an independent person with a car selling a transportation product any different than someone selling widgets through Amazon?

Same as above. Drop someone off to work in exchange for fuel money? Nobody cares. Start behaving like a transportation service, and the government will want you to register as a transportation service business.

One of the many tricks Uber tried to pull off is Schrödinger's employment - the drivers are to be independent contractors when it comes to liabilities and the taxman, but otherwise the drivers are to be like employees. But, as Uber is discovering, you really can't have it both ways.
You have a number of problems ...

There is a short story by Orson Scott Card called "Unaccompanied Sonata". You can read the wikipedia plot summary[0], but in it a composer is prohibited from listening to other music so as to ensure that his ideas are pure, original, and non-derivative.

And that's well and good, but science and art both progress by pushing existing work further. It's all well and good to try to create things from scratch, but often that simply means making the same mistakes over and over, failing to learn from the experience of others, and getting no further simply because you run out of time and/or enthusiasm.

So there is value in going for this with a brand spanking new approach, fresh and unencumbered by previous work. But you are running the risk of re-inventing the wheel.

On the other hand you could look at existing attempts to create a single language for the world. It's been attempted before, and if you haven't heard of them it's a measure of just how successful they were. Or in this case, weren't.

So by all means go for it and see what you can achieve. But if you decide to see what other people have tried, here are a few links:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sapir+worf

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=universal+constructed+lang...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unaccompanied_Sonata
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He didn't adopt Litecoin after he left Coinbase. Charlie Lee created LTC even before he joined Coinbase.
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I have not looked into it in a while, but i seem to recall it worked by basically saving whatever was on your screen at the moment. On the more "traditional" car nav apps you can pick specific nations and get the whole thing.
most of them don't have a choice, lol
PHEVs will pretty much be the norm until we get mass market EVs with 300+ mile range and 10 min charge times.
And whenever I tweet about Litecoin price or even just good or bads news, I get accused of doing it for personal benefit. Some people even think I short LTC! So in a sense, it is conflict of interest for me to hold LTC and tweet about it because I have so much influence.

And that is why CEOs or lead developers of public companies don't tweet their plans. Generally, there are a quarterly meetings or investor relations day when stuff is announced. To top it every buy/sell by a designated insider (read highl level executives) are reported to the SEC for transparency sake. Announcing that he has sold everything without disclosing where and how is rather disingenuous, if there is a need to instill some transparency.

Still I do agree with him on this:As you can see, some people even think I’m pumping Bcash for my personal benefit. It seems like I just can’t win.

Cryptocurrency FUD crowd will always find a reason.
It’s also true for IO, networking, and since recently even for GPUs.

Intel’s VT-d & VT-c, AMD’s Vi.
While I agree with permission overload at install time, users pay more attention when permission prompts come up one at a time at first-use. It also gives the app a reason to stagger in permissions only when the feature is used, lest the user loses interest and drops off.
Notice that although it looks like Google doesn't have buildings in those links, they do. You just have to zoom in a bit for them to appear.
Other than the H1B visa, what are the options for someone in the IT field to move to the US (and become a permanent resident)?
You are making the opposite claim to mine, they are not comparable. Try these on for size:

Before his birth, Mussolini was not alive. Therefore, it is possible that he could not be alive again.

At one point, there were no grains of sand in this glass. Therefore it is possible that there will be no grains of sand in this glass again.

Thermodynamics is really not the tool you should bring to bear in this conversation. Entropy dictates that eventually everything will be worthless, and that includes Bitcoin. The price of Bitcoin is not an irreversible product of entropy, despite what some investors might wish.
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> This is why government regulation is terrible.

Uh... The copyright system is government regulation. The government says that in exchange for producing a creative work, you have exclusive rights to publish that work for a "limited" time.

> bad for the families of these artists/writers, as they won’t be able to benefit from it anymore

That benefit was purely due to government regulation.

> Good for poor people

Good for society in general IMO, because even very old works often inspire new ones. Imagine that the greek and roman pantheons were under copyright, and anyone writing about Zeus would be sued for infringement.
These things are not independent. If LTC will be the future of money, then it will increase in value. The opposite is not necessarily true (in fact, a sustained increase in value makes it less likely for it to be used as cash), but no, IMHO you can't seriously believe that LTC will change how everyone pays everyone but this magically won't cause an increase in value.
Thank you for the link, and thank you for your effort! I will certainly look into this!
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To be fair, this is not for CS5 compatibility specifically (that was one of the more visible impacted apps), but multi-threaded applications that continuously poll for mouse state against a non-thread safe state-cache introduced in an earlier version.

Also wine is not linux, and photoshop is not a linux program. If you want to run Linux only, then alternatives like krita, gimp etc.. exist that work natively. While I admit they often don't line up with adobe's tools yet, Krita's come a long way from what I've been told, and for a good portion of basic photoshop tasks (rgb only for the most part) you can use gimp quite effectively.

As a non-graphic designer I use linux daily and love it. I only keep windows around for the few windows-only games I still play
Jeez, what's the password reminder hint? "What's your mother's maiden name in a past life?"

Tangential... "Oh no! The hackers got my ancestry.com account!"
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I think GP is trying to understand why it has so much media exposure.

It has so much media exposure because on the one hand, it spends a lot of money on aggressively marketing itself (thus people talk about them), and on the other hand, in many places their business is entirely based on breaking local laws (thus people talk about them). Plus, they're beloved Silicon Valley unicorn (more talking) known for pulling off shady shit left and right (even more talking).

But beyond that, they're just a taxi company with a nice app and shitty attitude.
Ehhh, you can definitely trade the same stocks on multiple exchanges at the same time. You are confusing listings with trading
Yes and the "FUD" goes both ways, on the "this is completely worthless" and also on the mania side, of "mortgaging the house to buy bitcoin" not to mention the infighting between BCH and BTC and other coins
No thanks needed: it’s fun, reuses my front-end skills, teaches me Python (I’ve been helping out with the build system as well), and gets me reading a bunch of books I’ve not touched before. The best sort of hobby :)
Is there even any proof that hypnotherapy works for these kind of things?
> because they suddenly can more easily

People do "more" when stuff gets easier for a lot of other things.

But if you want to drill down on this specific situation, think about how many "newbies" must have come to Coinbase because of the recent Bitcoin surge. They weren't using any other online wallet or exchange - just Coinbase. And now suddenly they have an extra cryptocurrency option. A lot of them will try it out, thus increasing the price of the coin.

This is also exactly why Bitcoin is maintaining a leadership among cryptocurrencies and will for the foreseeable future, despite being so much worse in many areas compared to newer cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is the "de facto" cryptocurrency accepted not by 50%, 70%, or 90% of the crypto exchanges out there, as some of the other cryptocurrencies are, but by 100% of them.

Also, all the other cryptocurrencies are exchanged into Bitcoin. There are very few other cryptocurrency "markets" other than Bitcoin. Some exchanges support turning your other cryptocurrencies into Ethereum for instance, but not all of them, and even for those that do, people still prefer to exchange into Bitcoin.

The "first mover advantage" is very strong here, and Bitcoin will continue to benefit from it until maybe every other cryptocurrency is 10-100x better than Bitcoin in every way and everyone will wake up one day and say "wait, why are we using Bitcoin as the default currency again?!" But it's not a guarantee that will happen soon, or even ever.
This is a very interesting read. But it’s so frustratingly long. It’s like “where are you going with this”. It’s as frustrating as interesting it is. What a unique combo.
Well what do you think people are running on all those GCE instances?

Websites that show ads, of course!
Also becuase of difference between EU VC and US VC: US VCs are happy to invest in something that might not pay off, EU funding are more insistent about ROI.
Just like any other altcoin that sees less transactions than BTC.

BCH has only even reached 60% of the transaction numbers of BTC in the last few days.

Yes, bigger blocks will let you do more transactions, but it'll scale linearly and then struggle to handle PayPal scale anyway. And bigger blocks aren't a free lunch.
I feel like the 'M$' pejorative is a bit out dated and not really representative of Microsoft as a company anymore.

Apple, and Google practices as of late do seem sufficiently profit oriented to the point of poor consumer experience. Throw Facebook and Twitter in the mix for good measure. At the very least MS is no longer the only bully in the room....if they are still a bully at all.

I'm not sure I've seen quite as drastic a shift in fundamental thinking from a company as I've seen from Microsoft in recent years (under Nadella).

tl;dr - Any large and diversified (tech) company has so many powerful stakeholders within the company that decisions bubble up which are in the best interest of those stakeholders and their departments, not necessarily the consumer.
Aren't building-footprints easy to add using complementary data, such as satellite view and/or street addresses?

Perhaps it could be a nice ML project: turning map data + satellite data into fuller looking map data.
I bet 95,73% of all statistics are made up.
Most of the time when you put JS on your page, what you're doing is breaking the thing that would - without JS - still correctly do what it's actually supposed to do.
A lot of the old rail lines in those areas were just temporary logging rails though. That narrow gauge stuff probably won't be on any maps, certainly no modern commercial map.

http://geo.msu.edu/extra/geogmich/rr-logging.html

If you poke around you can find digital copies of old plat books of Michigan, going back to when railroad companies owned most of the land.
Do you mean you would prefer the 101 route? That's what both Google, Bing as well as all OSM routers I tried suggested. https://i.imgur.com/vIWC5ti.png
I've seen lot of data on OpenStreetMaps that is:

A) Wrong/Outdated/Missing

B) Just plain Vandalism
That's not exactly true. I've dealt multiple times with situations in python where I wanted a guarantee that the stored value is cleared. As in actually overwritten, because it was used for temporarily holding certificate keys.

This is doable, but usually via a native extensions. The problem being avoided here is not that python will fail. It's that openssl will get heartbleed and start leaking "freed" python contents from the same process. This very much applies to network attackers as well.
So, Uber is giving you the taxi cab service you always wanted? That's great, and that's why they should be regulated as such.
To me, it feels like they jumped from having a D-grade browser to a B-grade browser.

Good work, but I'm still not going to use it, given I've already had A-grade browsers for many years.
BCH isn't a stock, it's a currency. I don't think there are any insider trading rules for currencies.
But are they? You have no real control on what the browser does when you say GO. Sure you can change browsers, and thats cool, but most consumers don't know who/what/when/where/how to change to another browser.

Its a bit naive, because we technical people can switch willy-nilly from one browser to the next, to assume everyone can.
"Wondering what will enter the public domain through copyright expiration in the U.S.? Like last year, and the year before… Nothing"

(sigh)
With respect, that's a horrible generalization, and does nothing to refute my point that households Europe are in much more debt (as a share of disposable income) than US households.
It's a weak argument because we have entered a fundamentally different phase of our evolution, from that steered by our environment to that steered by ourselves. Our evolutionary drives incite us to eat meat because it was scarce (but now we have farms), they incite us to view faces different than ours as fundamentally other (though tribalism is obsolete and we recognize everyone as human). There is no good reason to follow evolutionary imperatives because we now understand our own impact on our destiny and have the means to plan for and steer it.

It is the weakest because there are only a few good arguments for life extension, and all of them are better (but not by much) except for the "because we can" people.

Always when introducing these "benefits" to society we must carefully weigh and consider the way they will shape how human lives are led and experienced. And nothing good can come of extending life if there is no corresponding marked increase in quality of life for everyone who may be affected--and I don't just mean statistics like access to healthcare and food, but real, perceived happiness of individuals.

Quick edit to respond to your last point: "truths" in this context hardly mean much. There are very few things you can call objectively true. There are metrics and statistics you can measure but they only explain themselves and any correlations you may assign are spurious at best, and harmful when acted upon without fore- or afterthought.
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Why do you feel that using a fish for fertiliser production is irresponsible? It seems to be an effective way of using something that the majority of people who keep fish treat simply as a waste product.
For one case, I even did a meeting at a conference, where I got promises that they will look into it... Nothing happened then.
>>for the families of these artists/writers,

Maybe the families of these artists and writers should do something productive for society themselves instead....

Copyright should be no longer than 28 years. 14 years for corporations and estates, plus one 14 year extension to individuals if they are still alive and file for a single 14 year extension
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Yeah, based on the screenshots I've seen people posting the effective bid-ask spread for anything beyond the most miniscule of transactions was $6000 when they pulled the plug, with almost all of the buy orders at around $3000, almost all of the sell orders at around $9000, and a very thin orderbook in-between the two. What a mess.
My point is Uber did not invent them. This was happening before Uber existed.
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