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>> They will launch Musk's Tesla Roadster into orbit around the sun, where it will continue orbiting for hundreds of millions of years.

Good god that's funny. I didn't realize the roadster was going anywhere, so it seemed stupid. But just imagine once people forget about this in 50 years. Perhaps we even have people on mars. But every few years someone post to the equivalent of HN a link to a wikipedia article about this car orbiting the sun... Or what if modern society suffers a setback (an actual nuclear war or something) and knowledge of this is forgotten and centuries hence, people redevelop technology and get images of it. Best joke ever.
Magic Leap has a track record of outright lying [1]. Everything in this "unveiling" looks like CGI. There is no store and nothing is shipping until "2018".

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/8/13894000/magic-leap-ar-mi...
Cabs are shit in most places around the world. What's great with Uber is that you will avoid that while traveling.
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Seconded. Also a fella from Munich. In regular restaurants you have to pay at least 25 EUR to be able to pay with “EC Karte” which I find incredibly annoying. I don’t like carrying around any cash honestly. I have my cards and that’s it.
I would not mind regulation requiring such assemblers have to purchase insurance which provides payouts to those who are damaged by such leaks.
> your opinion is the polar opposite of everything I believe and quite different than the libertarianism tech grew up with.

> Laws should always be challenged and dismantled whenever possible.

That's a rare belief for a libertarian; like most other ideologies, libertarians usually believe only laws which conflict with their ideology should be challenged and dismantled.

The (capitalist) model of property rights libertarians prefer is itself supported by law, which is quite possible to challenge and dismantle (I can point to organized groups who challenge it everywhere and would dismantle it if they had adequate support), but libertarians don't generally participate in that challenging and dismantling.
Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15968034
I have been using taxis a lot -- even as primary city transport service. Early 2000: pretty much I used to go to work and back by taxi.

I could call, they'd know the calling phone location (land lines, so that was fixed). Alternatively I'd have to tell where I was and where I'd like to go to. Either they would tell how much time it'd take, plus the car number picking me... or call back with the same info, if no immediate taxi was available.

The meters were a must - both distance and time and you got a receipt at the end. That's like 17-18y ago.
He meant that no browser with a significant market share will implement thi, the sites will remain broken which will only be evident in firefox. The side effect will be people visiting those sites will switch a different browser.
We just need a browser extension to _install_ a single non compliant ad on every page and let chrome do the rest :)

Is it just me or the web is becoming more fragmented than ever: First the Safari intelligent anti tracking stuff, then Firefox's delayed loading and now this. Things will break is subtle ways.
Thank you for explaining your concerns in a civil way. So this is a hypothetical problem or something that's manifested in the past but regulation then stopped?
I think the worse they look, the better, that way they can be developed to be useful in private and professional spaces, without anyone being tempted to take them out in public.
Show HN: Flying Carpet – encrypted file transfer via ad-hoc WiFi, no AP required
I hope you aren't implying that the Democratic party is any different.
If you've ever been frustrated that you couldn't move a file over 2GB from Windows to Mac with a flash drive, or couldn't set up a file share because you didn't have WiFi, or find it stupid that we push files up to Dropbox or Drive just to move them 5 feet between laptops, this program is for you. It is encrypted file transfer that goes straight from wireless chip to wireless chip, over ad-hoc WiFi (or Wi-Fi Direct when necessary). Written mostly in Go.

I posted this a few months ago when it was just a command line tool, but it now has a GUI and is much more stable. Linux support still forthcoming. Please give it a try and let me know what you think. Thanks!
Maybe you're not very familiar with the Hololens. It looks very different to me. The "goggles" look seems to indicate the rendering will cover the full field of view. The computer pack seems to indicate they are either going for greater visual fidelity or longer battery life (or both). And the controller is more akin to the desktop VR systems than Hololens' janky hand gestures (though I would honestly prefer someone just solve hand gestures already).

This is a lot more different from the Hololens than the Vive and Rift are from each other.
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Ads are being served and FB makes money from advertisers. It's good that some people are slowly starting to see that...
pre-agreed prices are pretty recent in the US too, I am confident they will implement it in the UK at some point. It just makes more sense.
In all seriousness, porn would be an amazing application for this technology.
> Full price transparency, pre-agreed price so you don't need to worry that you drive in circles,

In UK you either get a taxi which uses a calibrated tamper-proof taximeter and published rates per mile, or you use a cab which must offer the option of pre-agreed fee.

This dual system existed decades before Uber.
> data that can be acquired programmatically is very good on Google, and anything requiring human input or verification is relatively weak

I think you've described Google as a whole with this one sentence. YouTube content classification. Web site content identification. Account abuse. Their porn filters. There are as many examples as there are Google data products.
In fact you still need to go to Estonia for your Bank account and the process takes several weeks. You can open a UK company within minutes from everywhere, the yearly paid address costing less than the e-residency card, and some even manage to get a bank account without going there.

I wouldnt say UK is much harder.

Disclaimer: I am this nomad type, and i went with UK
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As an addendum, I was once in a position where I'd have to provide essentially all the support for software I developed. That's no longer the case but the mindset of avoiding designs that are likely to confuse the user (and thus lead to people bothering you to ask about them) stays with me even a few years later.
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It's weird to complain that because btc is backed by no set, it it not really worth it's process in USD, which is also backed by no asset.

USD is backed by "the full faith and credit of the US government". BTC is backed by the Internet and meme magic.
Isn’t it trivialising the effort it takes to figure out the best layout, by adding the adjective “simply”? It’s a little offensive considering this looks like an amazing resource out for free.
The FCC, both under Wheeler and Pai, have had trouble preempting state laws but Congress has no such trouble. The FCC wields delegated congressional power, much like the FDA, and should have authority to preempt state laws as their rules carry the same force of law as bills in congress but the courts have given them a harder time then one might expect. The most notable case was when the courts blocked Wheeler from preventing states from blocking municipal broadband.

States in fact do not have that right if the federal law implicitly or explicitly preempts them. It's a corollary of the supremacy clause.
That's (a) a very good price, and (b) I suspect a lot of money, for people in India. You are not "rich" by western standards, but you may be by Indian ones... and anyway, the bottom line is that you are fortunate enough to afford high-quality, unlimited mobile data. I suspect there are plenty of people in the world who don't have unlimited data (e.g. I don't, not that I mind much).

The second point is that "data" is not everything. There's also the aspect of needlessly consuming the battery; and potentially loading the page slower, just to load the video ad first (especially frustrating when/if you're in an area with bad coverage).
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The matrix (and its corresponding rules syntax) in uBlock Origin is not as powerful as in uMatrix. In uBO, you can specify how to handle traffic between two origins. You can also choose which type(s) of content can be loaded from a particular origin. However, you cannot specify both at once. For example, you can't create a rule in uBO to allow only image requests from google.com to googleusercontent.com.

The uMatrix rule syntax can do this, and the matrix UI does provide this capability.

EDIT: formatting, typo
I think statistics is hard.

In my country, it is taught to freshmen and it uses the Central Limit Theorem all the time. That theorem is deep and hard to prove so student are forced to take it at face value. Other math courses do not work like that.

This is done precisely because statistics is so useful.
2018 is less than two weeks away, though.
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> Their goals are not really anti-competitive

One could make the argument that by putting a web browser in Windows, Microsoft was only providing a common service to their default OS. The problem here is that Google makes almost all its revenue from the very medium that they are now actively blocking from other providers.
I think it's a marketing term that differentiates AR apps that live on your smartphone screen from AR apps that you use through goggles.
That would mean it actually exists. And ideas count more than actual development these days so I don't expect anything in the coming years.
Has it ever been tested in court that the laws that make various forms of trading halts a tool to protect fairness in conventional markets can be reliably applied to an exchange of virtual toy tokens? Overloaded front-end servers that stall the bulk of sell orders while willing buyers get through to be matched with "preferred sellers" using lots of careful handholding seems very likely to me in a bitcoin panic, it could happen without any premeditated ill intent at all.
Bio-programming toolkit maker Asimov launches with 4.7M from Andreessen Horowitz
Recycling XUL as another TLA would be LTA (Less Than awesome), IMHO :-)
Lockheed Late Delivering Its F-35s for Fourth Consecutive Year
Isn't one of the issues the increasingly close relationship between ISPs and media owners? I mean they are literally the same in some cases.
Yes I think France had the same problem we have (and are gonna have again) in The Netherlands.

We used to have a lot of providers, that merged into three big ones (KPN, Vodafone, T-mobile). Despite them not colluding, they basically price-matched each other which meant we had some of the highest prices in Europe.

Then Tele2 came into the market as a new player.
Before Tele2 it wasn't uncommon to pay €20-30 for 2GB of data + 100 texts/minutes. Tele2 started with 25GB (don't know the texts/minutes) for €25, and now it is €25 for unlimited.
Plus there are many MNVOs offering even cheaper prices, and this all combined forces the big three to follow the market.

However, T-mobile is going to buy the Dutch part of Tele2, so now we will have 3 big players again, and it is almost certain prices will rise and innovation will slow. The EU even did research and concluded that for a healthy competitive telecommunications market you need at least 4 providers.

Edit/extra info:

We have a regulatory organisation (ACM) but they are utterly spineless. For example, in The Netherlands KPN used to be a state company, and when they were privatised they basically got the entire copper grid for pennies on the euro. Because of this the ACM later ordered that they must allow other companies to hire those lines. This is all good.

But then there is the cable grid, which was built by private companies and then in the end either owned by UPC or Ziggo (so duopoly on our cable grid). ACM then allowed those two to merge, resulting in Ziggo owning ~50% of the internet market in NL, and being a monopoly provider in a lot of parts in The Netherlands. You guessed it, they have raised prices 3-4x in the last few years, waiting times for calling customer service went from a few minutes to 20+ minutes.. etc.

For clarification: in NL due to lots of mergers (and because the companies are aware that landline internet will go the way of landline calling) most telecommunication companies are both landline and mobile providers. You have Vodafone-Ziggo, KPN and T-mobile.
Exactly. Three letter agency abilities were expanded hugely under Obama. Why people can’t grasp this, I’ll never know.
> As for the cost: “So we have an internal price, but we are not talking about that yet,” he says. “Pre-order and pricing will come together. I would say we are more of a premium computing system. We are more of a premium artisanal computer. “

So...to me that sounds like we can expect a $2-4k price tag for the first release? Maybe more?
> Laws should always be challenged and dismantled whenever possible. The state should be minimized. That taxis were ever regulated is totally insane and their complete lack of customer service prior to Uber's existence is evidence of that.

When people tell me they can't believe things were regulated, very often it seems like they're not actually sure what the regulations actually are, and why they're there. A lot of regulation covers basic common sense requirements based on what society has learned as a whole. That's not to say all regulation is, and I'm certainly not one to argue against a need for massive red-tape cutting.

So:

.. You don't think Taxi drivers should be mandated to have background checks, to ensure they're not sex offenders, thieves etc. It's really hard to tell when you see someone face-to-face. We've seen Uber already repeatedly struggling with this, being a regular problem early on for them, and eventually giving in to peer pressure to do what Taxicab companies already do, what laws already require. Why should we (the consumer) have to go through the same process over and over again with every Tom, Dick and Harry company that decides they want to drive people around for money? Uber is becoming entrenched, prices are rising. Eventually a new company is going to come along and disrupt the market out from underneath them in some way we don't anticipate right now, and yet again we'll go through sexual harassment etc. of passengers that'll continue for years until the company comes under sufficient pressure to fix their shit.

.. You don't think Taxi drivers should be mandated to have business insurance so that should the driver crash when you're in the vehicle, you're covered?

.. You don't think Taxi drivers should be required to have a vehicle regularly maintained and in good _safe_ working order, so that you're significantly less likely to be involved in an accident, and when it does you're less likely to be seriously injured? Remember that most things that wear out on a vehicle aren't plain to see. It's really easy to keep a car spick and span, while it's about to fall apart underneath.

.. You don't think Taxi cab drivers should be restricted to working no more than 12 hour days, so that they're not falling asleep at the wheel and causing accidents?
Fun fact, the difference is because the Soviet designers chose to guide the rocket by varying the thrust between many small fixed engines. The American designers chose to have a few large engines that could turn slightly.

I wonder which method the Falcon Heavy uses.
What is expected to happen with US law in 2019 - another Disney extension?
It's become a scam because of the incentive structure. The miners control the currency and are trying to maximize the money they extract not grow the usage of Bitcoin.
Source (Google): https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/better-ads
And FISA reauthorization always happens a few days before Christmas.

Californians, remember to vote Feinstein out in the Democratic primary. She's been one of the main champions of this bill and type of mass surveillance (as well as the anti-encryption bills, which she's not giving up).

It's probably one of the reasons why she decided to go back on her promise not to run again, so she can pass it once more in a few years. Her husband also makes big bucks from the defense industry and from government contracts - probably not a coincidence at all. She's one of the richest Congress people - again, likely not a coincidence.
Ubuntu currently discouraging download of 17.10 after bricking Lenovo laptops
I assume the price is set by the same logic as any other price: enough to make it worth his while to close the deal.
Yes they can. It happens all the time, just not through a company. Probably not in Europe, though.

I am making a normative argument. I am aware that regulations prevent that sort of thing for good reasons. I say that there are also good reasons for not regulating. In everything there is a tradeoff.
Their failed business model is not our problem.

I think you are aware that ads are the emerged part of the iceberg, the big part is the profiling, tracking and data collection going hand in hand with ads.

If ads were unintrusive and not gobbling privacy, then I would not block them as I would not mind them.

Excuse me but I have to go now, local girls want to give me a free ipad that I won by clicking the fart button after subscribing to the newsletter that was blocking the content of the page I finally chose not to read because fk it.
Wasn't planning on batting politics here on HN, but - I'm inclined to agree with asfd... who has apparently deleted their comment. How annoying.

> The basic idea is sound: the university needs to do something when one student accuses someone else.

No, that isn't sound. It's a criminal matter. You don't inform your professors, you don't inform your employer, you don't inform your gardener, you inform the authorities. We're not talking about plagiarism here, we're talking about a criminal offence.

As a Brit, the idea that a college should have some sort of mini criminal justice system, seems utterly absurd. The only institution with its own criminal justice system, is the military, and they take it every bit as seriously as the civilian world.

> Applying a criminal standard of proof is incredibly unfair.

We're talking about adults dealing with crime. How is the criminal justice system any more unfair simply because both the victim and the suspect are both students at the same institution?

> Unlike in the criminal context, a false negative (incorrect acquittal) has a direct prejudicial impact on the victim.

That's a nasty attribute of rape, and of various other crimes, not of colleges.

Aren't most rapes committed by someone the victim already knew? You seem to be treating the college case (where both are students of the same institution) as categorically different from a case where the suspect is a friend (well, 'friend') or colleague of the victim.

I don't see it. I certainly don't see it as a justification for lowering the burden of proof, or for letting the suspect escape ordinary criminal-justice proceedings.

> But in a college context, the victim is seeking something that can actually help. Not punishment of the accused, but freedom to continue her education without the threat posed by the accused.

Again I don't see a category difference here. If the suspect is a colleague, or a member of a social circle shared with the victim, the same issue arises.

> Once you realize that false negatives are as harmful as false positives

Of course false negatives are harmful, it would be absurd to deny that, and no-one is doing so. That is the case for all serious crimes. It remains necessary to insist on a high standard of proof, and on presumed innocence.

> sexual assault is far more common than false accusations

You seem to be assuming that this ratio is set in stone. If you make it easier to make a false accusation 'stick', we would expect them to happen more often.

> In this context, it’s not about deciding whether the accused is guilty of rape

But it is. The consequences of the accused being found guilty can be severe, no? If a rape has occurred, a crime has been committed. Dealing with crimes is not within the purview, or the competences, of a college.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15968034
No, that's not practically possible. And even if it were, FB could stop or change/restrict it any time.
> afraid of

The government knowing literally everything about my life (yes, I know they almost certainly do already)

> what I'm trying to hide

More like what I'm trying to protect: the naive assumption that the government does not deserve to have this depth and breadth of information on literally every citizen for no legitimate reason.
I think we spent a lot of time challenging and trying to dismantle digital property rights in the early consumer internet/P2P era.

You're correct in that the laws most likely to be challenged are those in the way of technological progress. I'd also say the laws that empower a growing state apparatus are also likely to be targeted.

The regulations in question here look like an obvious overstep of government into consumer affairs and a resistance against technological and market progress.

I still don't know how anyone who has ever taken a pre-Uber taxi could make an argument against Uber. The market forces alone they've created have improved service 10X in even non-Uber options.
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No, my day rate is 2x it'd be anywhere else in the country and the savings wouldn't come close to making up for that. I also like where I live but that doesn't mean I don't get to bitch about the state of the city I work in.
You gotta wonder about that. I'd sure like to see some pictures of a Tesla Roadster being integrated into the payload section of the rocket.

On the mars orbit thing - I think we have people who try to make sure that we don't contaminate Mars with Earth bacteria any more than we can avoid. You would think people would take a dim view of sticking a random car in Mars orbit, where it will probably decay and crash to the surface eventually.
Ah, a very real packing problem. [0] The difficulty really skyrockets when it gets recursively complex for orders full of knapsacks [1] But the really dangerous orders come at the beginning of each school year, when students flock to amazon and purchases both knapsacks and textbooks about the knapsack problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packing_problems

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem
Wouldn't be the first time we rediscovered something we shot out there and sorta forgot about.

If I recall correctly, a few years ago an astronomer detected something drifting pretty far away with weird visual characteristics. It turned out to be a big piece of metal discarded from one of the Apollo missions, painted white, still tumbling through space.
The titanium grid fins are also larger, which gives them better control authority. The center booster (like regular Falcon 9s) carries the interstage. This is light weight, but has significant aerodynamic effect when re-entering engines first for landing, like the feathers on an arrow. The side boosters lack this - the nose coses are much smaller - so are less stable aerodynamically. The likely reason for using the titanium fins is to give better control. They don't need the extra heat resistance for the side boosters - the center booster will have a toastier reentry as it's going much faster when it shuts down.
So, I guess, my question still stands, right? I'm assuming this bypass costs money for the ISPs to provide. Why is it evil for them to charge people to use it?
What's the difference between emailing it instantly, and doing a transaction that takes time and costs a transaction fee?