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by yohui 8y ago
And current HN discussion (older than this one by a minute): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622252
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by yohui 8y ago
> post-quantum key agreement experiments in Chrome Link for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16811554
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by yohui 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16659656
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Video suggests huge problems with Uber’s driverless car program(arstechnica.com)
211 points by yohui 8y ago|231 comments
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by yohui 9y ago
The original HN discussion about the Uber accident is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16619917 There was also a previous discussion about the report that Uber may not be at fault, though unlike this post the link
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by yohui 9y ago
Police have clarified that the victim was walking her bike across the street: https://twitter.com/AngieKoehle/status/975824484409077760
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by yohui 9y ago
> On the other hand, it mentions a bicycle, but also says the victim was walking, which I find odd The police clarified that the victim was walking her bike across the street: https://twitter.com/AngieKoehle/status
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by yohui 9y ago
Yeah, the police clarified that she was walking her bike across the street: https://twitter.com/AngieKoehle/status/975824484409077760
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by yohui 9y ago
Yeah, that's the real question. Especially since, according to the article, Swarm was already planning to make their future satellites larger after the smaller design was rejected. Why jeopardize that by launching the previously reject
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by yohui 9y ago
> perfect is the enemy of good enough Funnily enough, that's also how the original article described the opposition to the Authors Guild settlement. As it turned out, killing the Google Books project didn't really move us clo
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by yohui 9y ago
It's not clear to me inteleng is objecting to any possible religious connotations, so much as saying that astrobiology's success is far from assured and that much work needs to be done to prevent progress from being derailed.
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by yohui 9y ago
While a good step, this only makes up for a portion of what the settlement would have allowed. (Most obviously, it appears this only covers books from a 20 year period and it takes more work to ascertain that the books are not being sold.)
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by yohui 9y ago
That's great for material that's public domain or out of copyright, but the Authors Guild settlement could have digitized and made accessible orphan works that are still under copyright. It would have complemented the public domai
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by yohui 9y ago
It's frustrating how the opposition was so painfully naive. As the article says, it was so clearly a case of "perfect being the enemy of the good." The following paragraphs deconstruct the sorry state of affairs that resulted
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by yohui 9y ago
China is less homogenous than you might think, and Japan has groups that face discrimination too even if the divisions are less obvious to Western eyes. And people do criticize Japan's relatively xenophobic attitudes. More to the poi
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by yohui 9y ago
Good tip. I would add that maxresdefault.jpg returns a higher resolution image, e.g.: https://img.youtube.com/vi/HlxLo2sMnXg/maxresdefault.jpg
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by yohui 9y ago
I was interested to learn that, though the "OP1" processor in the Samsung Chromebook Plus is manufactured by Rockchip, the "OP" brand belongs to Google and is used for ARM CPUs optimized for Chromebooks: https:/&#x
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by yohui 9y ago
True, the continent of Europe (10.2 million km^2) is larger than the United States (9.8 million km^2), but the context suggests wskinner meant a comparable geopolitical entity such as the EU. The US covers roughly twice as much area as the
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by yohui 9y ago
I think you mean this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631084
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by yohui 9y ago
The Google cache link didn't work. F-droid.org loads fine for me, but if it's not working for others here's an archive.org snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20171019193128/https://f-dro
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by yohui 9y ago
Also being discussed in the thread "Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508603
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by yohui 9y ago
Apple and Valve did announce at WWDC a few months ago that SteamVR would support Macs: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/steamvr-is-coming-to-... I think DK2 works with SteamVR on PC. Not sure if it&#x27
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by yohui 9y ago
> 3. Two finger touchpad scroll doesn't work on Android apps for scrolling -- painful as heck when Wikipedia links open in the Android app in laptop mode I think that's a bug with the Wikipedia app. Touchpad scrolling seems t
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Inside the new battle against Google(politico.com)
2 points by yohui 9y ago|0 comments
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For some reason, Ron Paul has taken to Fox News to skewer SpaceX(arstechnica.com)
5 points by yohui 9y ago|1 comments
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by yohui 9y ago
If such fears are a factor, perhaps politicians should consider that even if they succeed domestically that won't stop geopolitical rivals such as China from pursuing AI, backed by state funding and with no limits on data collection.
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Conservatives, liberals unite against Silicon Valley(politico.com)
22 points by yohui 9y ago|11 comments
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by yohui 9y ago
This thread is the digital equivalent of why every attempt so far to set up a sane ID system in the US has floundered, leaving us stuck with the worst possible solution, SSNs.
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by yohui 9y ago
I don't think generic hate would help you get ahold of sonic equipment. A plausible sounding theory I've heard (and I stress that it's total speculation) is that someone was trying to spy on the diplomats but miscalibrated th
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by yohui 9y ago
Parent comment is talking about the cost of compliance, not fines for non-compliance.

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