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"Like every tech company nowadays, Apple wants to do it all."

I'd say that Apple has always wanted to do it all. They've always built the OS + the hardware + the software. Arguably, it's that "end to end design" that's helped them achieve their success.
Thanks, I'll add this to a website tonight.
You aren't being sarcastic, but instead are simply making things up.

GM dealers are all supposed to know how to disable OnStar, and indeed it is usually actually quite easy for an end user to do, with no negative impact on the vehicle. I have a 2010 Traverse and disconnected the OnStar module and antennas with no negative impact outside of OnStar -- it is in an easily accessed compartment near the back of the vehicle.

Some dealerships simply never deal with this, though, just as they are supposed to know how to disable the passenger side airbag but many have no clue and act incredulous. It just isn't that common.

GM doesn't widely share the information on disabling it because ostensibly a purpose of the system is theft recovery -- that if your car is stolen they can track it, which becomes less achievable if every thief just pulls a fuse or something. Nonetheless the information is out there and easy to find.
House prices in the UK, particularly in the south of the country, have been increasing above inflation for several decades. There was only a relatively brief decrease in average values following the financial crisis. This is because the major driver of house price increases in the UK is the limitation of the supply of developable land caused by Britain's inflexible and outdated planning system.
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It's amazing that, even though people should be more grateful to open-source projects for providing them a bunch of stuff for free, somehow certain members of the public feel that because the project is "open source" it gives them the right to demand the project to be run the way they want it, including kicking out the Unclean.
Not entirely. About a quarter of our revenue comes from mainframes - not just the hardware, but the ecosystem around it. See the bottom of http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/technology/-2015-07-21-tec....

I work for IBM Research, but not in hardware.
They are both pretty far back. They are also only $350.

I have access to IUPUI's CAVE, as well as other VR equipment. The expensive equipment is really good, but on part with ~$20k and up. And it's not portable. And it requires applications developed for the CAVE system.

I can haul the laptop in a bag and the rift in its box. Fast, good, or cheap.

Rift picked Fast and cheap. Can't say I blame them. It does well for me and my groups.
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> Loss of focus and feature creep

My point is though that I've heard this sentiment from Google customers, Microsoft customers etc. In fact to me it seems that I can only think of a few examples of software that seems to consistently improve in people's opinions.

Is there something fundamentally broken in how we develop and produce software as an industry? Is there a reporting bias? It's probably a combination of both with many other unseen factors IMO.
could you expand on that? I have never heard of anything like it.
I'm not afraid of being killed either. I'm mostly worried about politicians and powers that be killing others to stay in power. It's much easier to keep your hands clean as a government hacker than as a government hit-man.

Even if the hardware is secure against a script kiddie hacker, it'll never be secure against a government backdoor.

Imagine the power that someone like Nixon would have as president today. It's scary.

"When the president does something, that means that it is not illegal" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYdJqSG3K6c
restrictions on supply are the most important factor outside central london. There is no reason why sufficient housing could not be built in Kent or Oxfordshire to meet new demand.
I'd say for VR it's definitely an improvement. Resolutions will get better. More power will get cheaper.

I think we realize that to have immersion we absolutely need accessories. Haptic bodysuits and gloves. Simulate tacticle sensations and feedbacks digitally. Firing a shotgun resulting in your arms moving back as if you just fired a shotgun.

Next we can have some sort of stationary hamster ball where you could move about in complete freedom suspended in air. It would rotate to give you an illusion of gravity. The haptic bodysuit would give you the feeling that you are standing on the ground or in a race car or a spaceship.

Why stop there? Nanomachine solution you would drink and allow you to eat food in your VR and taste it.

The possibilities are endless but so are the unique challenges each of these necessary component of VR.

OR there was a way to fire some sort of lucid dream world but controlled by a software. You would know you are dreaming but you would be completely caught up in that VR world generated with the help of your own brain. Everything feels real, but what if people neglect their own bodies, wanting to be in the world as long as possible.
I don't think any political entity owns the economy. Quite the opposite - campaign funding is how the economy controls politics.
I've heard many good stories of happy developers in parts of Germany, Switzerland, and Denmark. And one of my favorite games (EVE Online) is made in Iceland.

There should be some Euro posts in the "Who is Hiring" threads. Some of them might even be willing to hire you remote and help you relocate.
Nice! I'm excited about this.

Why GPLv3? Why not make the license permissive as possible?
Yup, [nil anyMessageReturnsNil] is probably the best decision ever made in ObjC.
Check out the mercurial evolve extension. You can now do all kinds of local rewriting, collapsing, whatever using regular mercurial commits.
The article is not about index funds competing with alternate investment opportunities and whether or not the competition is fair, it's about what index funds do to the competitiveness of the companies they invest in.
Love Scam School - he's a great teacher and fun to watch.
"It just works" is a tricky promise to make good on. Microsoft never made this promise and nor does Google.

As a Google fan I accept a certain amount of flakiness as part of the brand identity. It's always celebrated a quirky, rough feel. In some ways, Google is starting to get TOO slick.

People expect Apple to be innovative and reliable; too push the boundaries without ever falling over them. It's hard to do either consistently, successfully, at scale. It might be impossible to do both.
OpenShift is a PaaS with a free tier (and no time limit like Heroku)
A co-occurrence model isn't really meant to be used for exploration. I'm eliding a bunch of details, as it's just one of many different recommendation algorithms, and there's an exploration layer on top of the whole ensemble, which includes an epsilon-greedy component.
> I also have issues of depth perfection after about 4 hours, which is around lunchtime. This goes away in perhaps 5 minutes, but is still a problem.

Don't think depth perception is going to go away without modifying human eyes and/or the brain, which is a much harder task than VR itself.

I have short-term depth perception issues when I take off glasses.
There are a few things to consider here. The first quote is distinct from the rest in that it refers specifically to the impact of science on society, which is rarely of concern to the pure scientist, who seeks only to discover more about the world. I'm also not sure that the social problems you describe as scientific were well known or necessarily even established as scientific fields during Feynman's life, I'd guess they weren't. E.g. psychology and sociology have made leaps and bounds in the past few years in being accepted as sciences. Beyond that, there is a distinction we have to draw between things that are science and things that feel like science. It's incredibly hard to reason about causality in such complex systems as you describe, though many have tried by attempting to apply what really feels like the scientific method to the problem, but there are often far far far too many variables to isolate.
Microsoft was one at some point back when Macs were motorolla-based.
You think of this stuff?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10008958
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> Trying to find where an a out-of-bounds list error was happening

I agree that in some real world runtime debugging, haskell falls short, due to the strictness that it imposes and how observation through debugging can change how the code executes. I have also spent a week or more tracking down a memory bug that was solved by a single `!` (to add strictness).

But the glory of haskell, is that you really don't need to debug runtime code. If you take advantage of the types

Having used haskell for about 5 years now, I think anywhere that you can even have an out-of-bounds list error is an anti-pattern. You should restructure your data to match the type.

Using list lookups aren't what lists are for. Unless you are implementing a specific algorithm, manipulation and access of lists should only be done via folds, maps, pattern matching or similar functions.

If you are accessing members of a list directly by their index, you want a different data structure
Lol... who the fuck wants to manage instead of code? I guess if you're burning out and seriously paranoid you won't be worth a fuck as a coder, you have to go in the management direction.

But the joy of where things are headed -- and what technology is increasingly enabling -- is that we can finally get rid of managers.
> All it does is add a third case that every application needs to support from here on out. You need to do your sniffing, then register mouse events or touch events or pointer events as necessary. And write similar but different code paths for each case. And you need to maintain and test all three of those branches for ever.

That's not how polyfills work.
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> If there is a hack in the baseband firmware on your phone you are basically out of luck.

You are out of luck. Around 2005/2006 it was revealed in a mob trial that the FBI remotely activated, presumably using a special signaling plane command, a non-smartphone to turn it into a room bug. Ain't no firewall for that.
Its a growing trend though. Go to almost any university, and 90% of the people there will have a Macbook out. Employees are increasingly going to start demanding them, and it makes sense for IT to find solutions for it. IT's purpose isn't to dictate, but to respond. An organization will run more efficiently if the employees are more comfortable in their computing environment.
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I got a Mac for my new job, and I gave it a few weeks, but ended up putting Parallels on it so I can use Ubuntu. I just don't like how Macs work, and don't like that I can't customize it (focus follows the mouse, dammit!) like I can Linux.

There are a lot of things that 'just work' on Ubuntu (for me, at least), like git bash completion, that seem to require more fiddling on the Mac.
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Very easily.
It's almost entirely about paying less in fund fees and aiming to be 'average'. I.E. get the return of the market rather than trying to beat it. Think of it as 'passive' investing rather than index investing.

EDIT: But yes, we don't know whether one can assume "The S&P500 will average 10% per year for EVARRRRR!!!1".
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Ask HN: What's a lightweight analytics service people don't hate?
With all the recent talk about ad/analytics scripts impacting website load times and privacy concerns that come along with them, I'm looking for the least-hated solution. What's the most feature rich analytics tool that is lightweight, maybe even privately hosted, and not despised by people for being too heavy and invasive? Something out there that perhaps even the script blockers don't block? Thanks HN!
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Search kind of sucks in hacker news. Not possible to filter by location.
Wouldn't the whole economy be screwed if interest rates are back up that much? It seems the low interest rates are the new normal, unless for some reason inflation becomes very high. With commodity prices falling hard due to increase productivity, that threat seems to be quite far now.
For some one who is not into gaming, the experience(no matter how horrible to the expert gamer) will seem like the first time some one would have seen Television, used a telephone or used a desktop computer. Its a new thing which the ordinary person hasn't used before, and they will be super thrilled to even get a chance to use it.

Heck even the tech crowd was excited about this around 2 years back, how do you expect the ordinary public to not be excited about it?

Yeah, there are problems to solve. And once the overall trend moves towards VR, there will be a good enough incentive to bring down prices and have more focussed engineering towards these problems.

Beyond all that, Gaming looks like a very small area of application for this kind of a technology.
>Also, the $9 rate is for life, so when the price increases, early adopters will always be at the $9 rate.

This should be more prominent. "Lock in this price now!", etc.
The animation with the mosaic is just terrible - a visual distraction and slowness no search engine needs.
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I think there is a sweet spot in high enough population density and low enough bureaucracy (or enough local gov cooperation).
Well, consumers shouldn't be much worse off, otherwise it creates an arbitrage opportunity.

Although Pepsi and Coke may be indexed, they aren't the same entity allowing investors to just own one. If there's some action that Pepsi could take that would massively reallocate the pie in it's favor (by winning over consumer for instance), then investors ought to start massing to it and becoming more activist. This would come at the expense of the index of course.

So really as long as there's easy 'severability' of the companies in the index, they shouldn't be overtly monopolistic.

But I agree in industries with high capital requirements (energy, biotech, etc.) it may be impossible to separate out the companies and then they would be de facto merged.

This really is an interesting idea because a solution seems hard to find. Outright banning indexing would be nearly impossible to enforce (large pension funds could reproduce the index at a slighter higher cost).
Cyanobacteria achieved the ability to destroy the ecosphere and actually did it, leading to one of the greatest mass extinctions in history.

Did they have the "duty of a steward" regarding the ecosphere?

No. Neither do humans. There is no such duty.

We would be wise to maintain an ecosphere we find livable and convenient. Possibly, even probably, this includes protecting natural diversity and endangered species. We don't have to, of course. Humans are organisms like any other and organisms often engage in behavior that leads to their eventual extinction. I personally would also prefer that we try to maintain 'natural' ecosystems and diversity as much as possible. But that is merely a preference.

In nature, might makes right. We're a part of nature like any other. Killing big game (even for recreation, not just for food), a human behavior that goes back hundreds of thousands of years, is certainly not a mental illness. It might be wise (if you have the preferences mentioned above) to institute laws and norms against engaging in that behavior, particularly towards vulnerable species, but that doesn't make it an illness.
Dismissing bug reports because "it works on my machine" is also a kind of dangerous extrapolation, especially with the near-certainty that any large piece of software has bugs.
Major Apple applications have become inscrutable and frustrating.

- iTunes, Music and the iTunes store are a mess. I understood the old iTunes organization. Navigation within my music collection has become highly non-intuitive. It seems that there are multiple paradigms (long list of tracks, and another sectioned off by album), and it isn't always clear why one or the other is used. I keep forgetting how to get to the store. Once there, the integration with the stuff I've bought is unclear (especially for video content). I once got extremely confused watching a series, not realizing that one particular view of the episodes were ordered by POPULARITY, not in chronological order. And ratings! I get the 0-5 star rating system. Then they added the heart icon for -- uhh -- something. Why not just use the existing rating system? Why do I have to rate things again for a different purpose?

- Podcasts have become very confusing. I want to be able to control what is physically present on my devices, to control data usage on my phone, and space usage on all devices. They've intentionally made that difficult.

- Photos is a disaster. There are many different organization paradigms, and it is unclear why some of my recent photos appear in some of them but not others. What are the differences among events and photo stream? Why do some pictures show up in the by-date organization but not photo stream? What's in the cloud? When does it sync with my phone? Why is it easy to sync with my phone by cable but not IP?

If current trends continue, my beautiful Mac hardware will be nothing but a boot loader for VMWare and Linux.
An index owning both Coke and Pepsi wants the soft-drink market to grow bigger -- it is presumably indifferent to whether Coke slays Pepsi, Pepsi slays Coke, or both grow bigger together, as long as the total market increases.

Which is arguably a good thing. Let's say that Coke has 60% of the market and Pepsi has 40% of the market. If Coke's investors are separate from Pepsi's investors, then it would be in their interests to take a tactic that kills Pepsi and allocates half of its market share to Coke and the other half goes up in smoke to a smaller overall market -- now Coke is half again as big as it was! But the industry is smaller.

That said, I'm not sure that realistically, market-decreasing tactics really exist in most cases -- I can't think of a real world example.

The collusion argument is certainly interesting.
In Austin - offered 50mb from Time Warner for $35/mo - then automatically upgraded to 200mb. The fiberhood is coming in a month so yes they're getting generous.
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Rooftop solar + marginal land for utility scale is simply cheaper and more feasible than orbital solar.
I'm trying to hone my logical fallacy analysis skills. Need some help.

OK the first one is open and shut ad hominem attack. Unless I'm totally sleepy and missed something obvious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

I'm too low on caffeine and sleep right now to absolutely decide if the second one is Ignoratio elenchi or Illicit major. It could be an example of both arguments at the same time. I think the illicit major argument is stronger as in more closely targetted whereas the ignoratio elenchi argument is broader so the Illicit major argument fits "tighter" which makes it more accurately descriptive. On the other hand he's clearly leading at a I.M. attack but he definitely did a I.E. attack so ... Maybe the right way to phrase it is "it is an I.E. logical fallacy attack that appears to be intended as a I.M. logical fallacy attack".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignoratio_elenchi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illicit_major

I've toyed with the idea of tags for social discussion sites that include individual logical fallacies as tags. You know, like venerable ole slashdot and "+1 informative" it would be interesting (for a startup?) to have a social media discussion tagset of the usual logical fallacy arguments, so people can +1 or -1 depending on their personal tastes. I tolerate I.E. attacks in general better than I.M. yet I.M. are so funny they show up in comedy so I'm not even certain which I'd upvote or downvote. Probably a mod like (-1 Ad Hominem) is not too controversial. I would guess the second statement would get both tags, actually the whole comment would get all three tags, most likely. Also this post was a good example of having to handle tags that are both "intended" vs "actual". This makes it hard to figure out how to deploy as a social discussion site modset, and being hard yet obviously useful would make it a good startup germ of an idea. As usual it'll all be in the execution not the mere simple idea.
I disagree. Dictatorships aren't about single dictators, they're about institutions that lead to the rise of dictatorships. For example in Egypt, Mubarak is gone, but there is another general in place and nothing has changed. Institutions take generations to topple, and not just a season a la the Arab Spring.
The only thing free software is intended to liberate people from is closed-source binaries and proprietary code.

If governments choose to use GPL code to spy on and oppress their people, that's perfectly within the spirit of free software, as long as they respect the users' freedoms regarding the source code while doing so.
So you're equating their decision to let employees chose Macbook's over Thinkpads (which have deteriorated in quality over the years) is somehow an indication of their decline? More large companies should give their employees a choice.

The hyperbole is strong with this one.
Back to the iPhone
> but 3d did win in cinemas

lolwut?
The issue is anyone with a web browser (even ones provided by the ones with walled gardens) can use the HTTP protocol to see hypertext documents. But Facebook users aren't using a public protocol in the Facebook messenger, so they can't easily communicate with Twitter users, who also don't use a public protocol.

It's not the end of the world, but allowing more people to connect more easily is a good thing. The larger issue is that people are less likely to connect once they find their comfortable niche. You don't use Facebook or Twitter but someone who does and would be interested in your thoughts are less likely to stumble across you.