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"Continued innovation matters more than the current set of features."

I think it's taken as a given that your app won't be sitting still for five years. The point of the longevity argument is that you won't have to rewrite regularly so your app will have a chance to make it to five years. Check out the team velocity chart under "Making a Good Bet."
I think it's more about priority. You might want to see a Romeo & Juliet movie with good characters even if it's not original. Lots of mystery movies have surprise endings and aren't rewatchable. You might feel interested in a super-original movie even if it's not very enjoyable.
i wonder how many orders of magnitude slower this one will be compared to x264. vp8/9 was like 9x slower last time i checked
So have three online signers.
I actually worked on a congressional race last year (in addition to other races) and not only is money important, but I'd dare say that it's more important than ever before. Even in a small congressional race you'll first be judged by the party and other supporters on how much money you're raising. So if you can only raise say a mere $50k you won't be taken seriously. And the person you're running against may have a million or more in the bank.

What does that money buy? Well first there are media buys, and it doesn't matter of it's broadcast TV or Facebook ads — that all costs money to just get some name recognition. And then old school tools like direct mail also cost quite a bit. Even polling costs money, so you'll spend a chunk of money just to figure out if you should even run. And then feet on the ground, or get out the vote costs money too. You want someone to ring doorbells or make calls? That costs money.

So a normal middle class person can't run for a federal office unless they are well connected. But connections come with a price. That price may not be legislation that has anything to do with Wall Street, but that price can be local pork or maybe a bill that's in the interest of the public that never comes up for a vote.

By the way car makers spend a ton of money in Washington. the Detroit bailout was all about that, but they do a great deal of work on smaller issues like emissions standards and the like. And if you look at the walls that an Uber is running into across the world it's hard to go up against existing interests.
For those surprised by the cost, I did a quick search on HomeDepot.com for the current line up of "shower head"s.

The largest category is the $50-100 group where HomeDepot lists 633 products. In the $200-250 category, where the Nebia is priced there are 95. Above $250, HomeDepot carries nearly 450 products including a $5500 shower head.

So if you think this is too much money to pay for a shower head, think again. It's the same discussion that appears every time Dyson launches a product (see LED light).
There's no equivalent here.

I still use Amazon.com, but it costs around $50 of shipping for each item.
Related "Show HN" from yesterday:

Zirtual may have just abruptly shut down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10033517
Nacy Pelosi isn't attending 400 fundraisers for herself -- she is doing it for the Democratic party and other candidates. Holding a single 'safe' seat in the House is not that important, but electing a few dozen more party members can make a difference, hence the crazy fundraising schedule.
Net neutrality is about all net traffic being treated equally. It is not just about the ISPs throttling what they want. Ad blockers do not treat all network traffic equally, they will block it if they think it is anything to do with an advertising company.
I don't see the Bitnami apps when I try to create a droplet. Where do I find them?

Edit: It seems I need to register on Bitnami's website.
The ongoing inability to turn ideas into commerce has proved to be a profound problem for Russia—and ultimately for the rest of the world as well.

Strangely enough, it seems to be a problem for large companies as well. Perhaps this is a tendency shared by all large bureaucracies?

EDIT: It's often been said that global trade accomplished Imperial Japan's WWII dream of a "Greater Asian Co-prosperity Sphere." Perhaps something just as ironic happened to Russia?
I wonder how an incentive ad wall would perform. Users are much more likely to watch a video ad/download a mobile app than take out their wallet.
In my opinion, DRM will "fix" that in the future: browser plugins could not be able to identify those ads. So we could reach "Black Mirror"-like ads sooner o later. Brave new world...
I thought it was going to let you search for the shape of a story http://visual.ly/kurt-vonnegut-shapes-stories-0
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No, not in the narrowest way. You can go 'somewhere in between' at the cost of blowing up your zone size tremendously, but it's not worth it.
How to get clients for offshore software company?
I am just starting a software company with a friend in north africa : how can get US/Europe clients ? We build web apps and mobile apps !
So... this is a separate project from Daala which Cisco also works on. Is there a story here?
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This is especially confusing because "GPS Navigator Magazine" has the wrong date on the article.

It looks like this happened in December 2001 and the speculation of it being caused by the battery change was released in March 2002. Christian Science Monitor [1] reported on it in December when the cause was unknown. This PDF [2] has some more information on the Washington Post article.

1: http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1207/p2s1-usmi.html

2: http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/cgoeker/SysSafe/WiSe%2011-1...
It doesn't seem like this approach depends on people not telling; the mere fact of it being unprovable does all the work. At that point, it doesn't matter if you tell a politician you voted for them, because you could be lying and they'd never know.
Arguably, it's always been different. I can tell you first hand that there is a robust ad market for content that reaches executives and decision makers in various industries.
Please let us know how the bet turns out.
Great article.
However...
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This seems like fantastic news after the HEVC patent disaster.

Has anyone tested this or has more information on the performance/quality vs other codecs?
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For some reason I thought you couldn't change it. That's fine, then.
We are approaching the experiment with a philosophy of no ads. As the platform evolves, we could test incentive ad wall kind of solution on some other bench of recipes. Thanks for sharing the idea.
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What I would like is an open source/self hosted solution where if I login as root to a system I would get a pop-up or message asking to verify this. Obviously for the individual sys admins it may not be useful - but for a company it makes sense. Personally I just want it as a sanity security check.

I could probably easily write it - just haven't had a chance to do it.
Economic profit is not the same thing as profit. In a pure economic debate you can drop it, but when talking about specific firms in a general context such as HN you really should clarify.

For everyone else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_(economics) "Economic profit is similar to accounting profit but smaller because it subtracts off the total opportunity costs (not just the explicit costs, but also the implicit costs) of a venture to an investor.[1] Normal profit refers to zero economic profit.[2] A concept related to economic profit, and sometimes considered synonymous, is that of economic rent."

You can think of Economic profit as the 'standard' ROI you get in a given economy. Hypothetically Economic profit is also being driven to zero in a static economy, but that's a separate and long term thing.

PS: I am just being this clear because general HN readers are likely to miss the distinction.
I was thinking the same thing.
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I like me some React, but my only gripe w it is the synthetic events, which can result in a single model's state being updated by multiple listeners.

I have replaced synthetic events w event streams, and couldn't be happier w how much cleaner the code has become as a result of replacing setters with stream-combinators.

The architecture roughly follows Elm's Model-View-Update, by splitting each component into view.jsx and update.js.

1. Update contains the eventstreams (replacement for synthetic events), and are transforms them into update-streams.

2. The model combines multiple update streams to return a model-stream.

3. The view combines multiple model streams, and the subscriber at the end does a `setState` to trigger the re-render

Using streams also has the side-benefit of not needing the didUpdate, shouldUpdate etc lifecycle hooks.

Here's a gist w the eventstream code: https://gist.github.com/findjashua/e78063e6591a2c234919

Happy to answer any questions.

Edit: special thx to Andre Staltz for the insightful discussions.
That's an important thing to note. The problem, however, is that a lot of people seem to be defending XML retroactively, because that's the choice that was made. An appeal to authority, if you will.

Realistically, it's completely understandable that XMPP was built on XML, and it made perfect sense at the time - but that should not preclude us from acknowledging that there are serious usability issues with it.
I used to use an MX Revolution mouse[1] that had what you describe. Multiple thumb buttons, that amazing flywheel scroll wheel, that other thumb wheel. I loved that mouse.

Unfortunately I love trackballs more than mice now, and am severely limited in my choices. The Trackman is nice, and has a couple of extra buttons, but it would be so nice to have something close to what I had with that Revolution mouse.

In response to your comment above, no I wasn't being ironic :). I'm sure I've seen similar schemes before that informed my "idea", though.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Revolution-Cordless-Laser-Mou...
This wouldn't be as much of an issue if more companies embraced working remotely.
As long as you mean judges, prescutors in Sweden then NO, they are not elected to their positions like politicians.
Misleading title. They didn't double CPM, they ran an experiment that suggested they might be able to double CPM.

From experience, the number of people who click the "buy" button (even given the price up front) are not necessarily the same people who will actually follow through with the purchase. (Further, some people who are turned off by the "buy" word, are willing to follow through with a purchase when presented with a different initial choice; e.g. "unlock now")

It'd be more interesting to see the experiment run to completion, actually taking the money, and then see those numbers.
Thing is, you actually don't want to put that line of code in there, because sometimes you DO need to fire on yourself. If you build a tool that fails that case because some idiot hard coded a rule with no override because they didn't understand every single case where their too might need to be used no amount of training can fix the problem. Sometimes you have to assume the user is smart enough to use your tool. I think this is the right idea, but you absolutely want to let the user shoot themselves in the foot if they want to, but you should make sure they know they are going to shoot themselves in the foot.
I don't think "the backend APIs, etc. etc." are typically the things with longevity, either, as very few of them do much of anything with real novelty or complexity. It's the customer relationships, brand awareness, domain expertise, and operational investments that last. Expect to change all code frequently, and focus on building a strong business for that code to serve.
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The next important thing is most likely not a programming language (and certainly not a framework). At that level, there's a real breakthrough only once every decade, if even. Everything else is noise that you can happily ignore. If a job description demands an alphabet soup of noise, ignore it. It will turn out to be a lousy job anyway. Download and read decent code from github. You will find most code to be noisy. This is normal because 90% of all code is noisy. According to Sturgeon's law, the reason for this is that 90% of everything is noisy. Read a lot of code, write some once in a while, and don't work for -- or with -- idiots and you should be ok.
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You're free to advocate otherwise. Others are free to ignore you or advocate against you.

It is my belief that giving words power is silly. By fearing them you show others that they can use that word to control you. If you are indifferent, their words fall flat. They become weak and powerless. By advocating the fear of words, you give them increased power. You teach people to fear the word because it can hold power over others. Those who wish to abuse that power will see that and use the word.

In the end you result in the abusers having more power, people with no ill-intent to feel bad for the usage, and people whom the word is targeted at grow more fearful of it. That's a lose-lose for all involved.

By not giving the word an "unspeakable" status - the abusers realize the word holds no power and stop using it, people who have no ill-intent don't have to feel bad for using the wrong word, and the people whom the word targets don't grow to fear the word.

I find advocates of making a word "unspeakable" because it, in certain contexts, can be "bad" is counterproductive is all. You increase the power of the word, nasty people will use it with even more glee, and nothing is accomplished other than self-victimization.
Every source I've read disagrees with your interpretation. Net neutrality is about common carrier rules and definitely relates to how ISPs and Governments handle traffic.

Here's an article by Tim Wu, who coined the term explaining that he is specifically talking about public network neutrality and common carrier laws: http://www.timwu.org/network_neutrality.html

Also, https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality
I've missed that, thanks! Then it totally makes sense since it's their own platform.
Right now my main concern is legacy code written in Objective-C. I have looked at taking a side project to maintain an app for someone but because it was written in Obj-C, I'm having some reservations. The good thing is that Xcode integration is the same for both Swift and Obj-C, but the syntax of Obj-C is very different.
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I am sure that some entity holds a broad enough patent that all your bases will belong to a Texas court.
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That data set is harder to come by, which really sucks... morningstar has something like that - historical fundamentals - and they charge a ton. But I think Quantopian gives access to it? Not sure if others do. And there might be ways for other services to bundle it somehow across many subscribers.
Static analysis probably does generate basically 100% false positives.

Organizations that manage to operationalize code scanners usually spend many months with full-time staff configuring them and tuning their output --- most of which is nonsensical, for instance randomly assuming dynamic memory is leaking, or that a local variable enables a race condition. There is a whole cottage industry of consultants that does nothing but this.

When all that work is done, the team still needs a Rosetta Stone for the issues they actually do investigate, one that is highly context sensitive and dependent on the different components of their application. For instance, a Fortify or Coverity issue might be bogus in 90% of cases, but actually relevant to one particular library.

There is from what I can tell no source code scanner on the market that will take a product sight unseen and produce a report from which real vulnerabilities can be extracted with a reasonable amount of effort.

There are, on the other hand, many consultancies that will do "point assessments" --- ie, not the long-term shepherding and building of a static analysis practice, but just looking at one release of one product for flaws --- that consist mostly of running a "static" tool like Fortify and a "dynamic" tool like WebInspect, and then handing off the report.

Davidson's take on licensing and security inspection is embarrassing, but she is not at all wrong about consultants and security tools.
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AWS API still works while AWS web console is not.
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Thank you js-ojus, I appreciate your contributions and ideas. Cheers!
This is a pretty good article:

http://jjt.io/2014/07/30/building-a-board-game-with-react-js...
"I will be leader just long enough to institute the necessary reforms" has led to lifelong dictatorships in other countries. Lessig doesn't seem the dictator type, but that particular promise should scare students of history.
you will be able to run "random" extension if the developer care enough about it and about the new security procedures to sign it. After all, it takes only couple seconds for the signing to work.

The versions I quoted are not non-standard. They are all versions of Firefox being worked on and with all the relevant teams. All those versions eventually become Firefox Stable and after that becomes outdated and a new release is now current. Versions goes from Nightly -> DevEdition -> Beta -> Stable. Each version has some tweaks, for example DevEdition is where they seed and test new devtools. Which means that for the developers, thats the best edition to develop with (still test on the other versions).
It could better be written as "Effective CPM". Also, the completion % is an assumption. If I take 10% completion rate, it is still higher than AdSense CPM rates and at par with other food blogging ad networks. For providing an ad free experience, it still seems worthwhile.
Several ciphers will be disabled by default [in the next release]: blowfish-cbc, cast128-cbc, all arcfour variants and the rijndael-cbc aliases for AES.

I still use arcfour; it seems to be the fastest when using scp or rsync (rsync -e 'ssh -c arcfour') for copying large files. I hope the OpenSSH package manager for my distribution keeps arcfour enabled for this reason.
Actually, I'm still rooting for Daala (from Xiph.org, the same folks that did so well with Opus). It's still a long ways away from being finished, but their work is awesome and I've been following it for a while now!

Either way, having another effort competing to make a great format is not a problem. Here's hoping it goes well!
why was this taken off the font page of HN?!
Sorry about that, having some blog issues due to a lot of load today. It will be back up in the next 20 minutes.
What type of website? For something with regularly-updated content, Patreon can be pretty compelling. For example, I know several YouTubers who earn as much via Patreon as they do from YouTube ads.
*Daala - but yes, I was wondering the same thing...
Not only you can download a new theme but you can also develop a whole new one if you'd like.
"Ads help us to be more informed about what products are available to us" (paraphrasing)

A kind public service! We should really be paying them, but the advertisers inform us for free!

Asking about the ethics of hiding ads seems a little like asking about the ethics of taking shelter during a carpet bombing attack.

I wish we would steer these discussions away from economics (Do the ads work? Are there better ways to monetize, do they stabilize or destabilize markets, etc) and toward culture. What is the cultural effect of saturating the internet (and the rest of the world for that matter) with ads? I am not the first person to ask...
What exactly do you mean by "built"? I mean if it's, like other users said, just a bundle of pre-installed tools, how does it differ from Ubuntu?
I don't think learning another new language or admin tool is going to really make a big difference ( it's an easy thing to learn once you know all the previous one). Since you have no CS education, i'd think you should improve your math / algorithmic skills. Such as :

-logic / type theory kind of skills. Seing how the recent batch of PL ( rust, swift) are influenced by research, i bet a lot of the industry is going to have a much higher demand for formal prooves, and all the topics you usually find associated to functionnal languages. If you need something practical, try getting your hands around Coq proover.

-AI : with the lastest hipe around deep neural network, and recent industry success such as SIRI or anything Google does, i also bet having a good general knowledge of AI algorithms and techniques is going to be an important thing for people in software development ( not necessarily to develop new ones, but at least know what's possible and how to use libraries). So, pick any course on coursera and try to follow them, there are fantastic ones, and they're very easy to find.
Wordpress is awful on DO and many things can and do break. Trust me, I've been developing with Wordpress for over a decade, and WP on a VPS is a whole different kettle of fish. Whether it's hardening the VPS to avoid a DDOS, or auto-patching Ubuntu when OpenSSL gets another vulnerability. It's quite mightmarish. DO is good for things like Gitlab and VPNs and things like that, but good luck trying to get something bulletproof and high availability. It's a devops nightmare. It can be achieved, but it takes some time...
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Some opinions aren't worth having a discussion about. If someone says that "all fags should be rounded up and shot" there's nothing discussion worthy there. A rape survivor is under no obligation to have a discussion with someone who says "all rape victims deserve it, or are liars, or both."

These are extreme examples to be sure, but the principle remains.

And nobody is saying "you can't say 'all fags should be shot.'" They're saying 'You can't say it _here_." Freedom of speech is not freedom to be heard.
Who exactly is getting behind using a closed-source service where a main developer can't understand the benefits of end-to-encryption, nor how it actually works? -> https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3bplym/hey_randroi...

Same as WhatsApp+Axolotl. Is it implemented properly? Is it flawed on purpose?

iMessage? What's stopping Apple from simply inserting new keys? They completely control the infrastructure and implementation.

Both a very big false sense of security, as is PushBullet's E2E.
Both Xiph's Daala and Cisco's Thor projects are contributing to the NetVC Working Group at IETF - https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netvc/charter/ - to attempt to create a new, competitive, royalty-free video codec - in much the same way as Skype contributed SILK and Xiph contributed CELT to the audio codec WG to create the truly excellent Opus audio codec.

We'll see what comes out of it!
You could try the reverse and float visitors credit. Once they're 5$ in the hole they can't view images anymore until they pay off the balance or something similar. Of course you'd have to find a way to make it so users can't just create a new account after they hit the 5$ limit (possibly by requiring a credit card and deduplicating by that?). Digital Ocean uses a similar model where they automatically bill your credit card once a month for accrued charges.
Changing a person's ability to recognise this is even harder.
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't realize that myself.
It wouldn't make any sense for them to not have filed that under seal.