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Because when one is launching an already controversial, highly novel product it benefits in unimaginable ways to start extremely to a limited few customers. Let's see Apple's big, giant successes, and let's see how it benefitted them.

1. PC - Initially made for one particular store out of garage. It benefitted them to focus on just that store, because it gave them a feel of exclusive store without having one. Customers would come in, and buy there, because there was no price comparison possible with other stores. With price comparison came product comparison, and all PC companies as small as Apple lost business because of that. This was also accidentally done as Apple got a sizeable order from one single store, and they didn't have proper bandwidth to deliver even that.

2. Music - Initial iPod was Mac only. Steve mentions over and over in documentaries and books that it was the only reason he could convince music companies to let him sell music for $0.99 on iTunes. Too small a product, they thought, for tiny Mac-only player, it would be a good publicity thing. Had iTunes was a global platform from day one, it would be selling you full albums, with a complimentary CD delivered to door. Shipping and handling additional.

3.iPhone - AT&T only. And on this one people cried. But it helped Apple with becoming the OTT king, because they could always say, there is not propertization of telephony here, we only work with one carrier.

Self-driving cars will have a battle with a lot of authorities, in a lot of countries. Nobody knows how many turtles exist in that cave. So it helps starting small.
Sounds exactly like Google. Here is this really cool new thing we built, but the work to finish it and provide support is boring so it doesn't get done. Fast forward a couple of years and they kill it saying no one used it and it provided no revenue.
Lowly Worm had a self-driving Apple car ages ago (it must have been self-driving... how else would a worm steer). REF http://bfy.tw/1Jdz

And the ubiquity of that design as a child's pedal toy is precisely what should have some folks concerned.

Apple seems to have a long history of vendor lock on hardware components that go in to their systems. I expect they view self-driving cars as a similar opportunity -- for regulatory reasons they could push heavily for use of only vendor-supplied parts, resulting in a tightly closed system. I would also expect a limited number of models to enter the market each year -- just as we see for Apple computer products.

Contrast that with vehicles like the Honda Civic and Ford F150, where there is comparatively a large product range, and an even more enormous range of after-market parts for repair and customization.

I suspect self-driving cars will reach a point of market saturation when they become cheaper than human-driven cars, aided by vendors touting the extremely high safety ratings and environmental protection value.

And when self-driving cars are here in force, I expect we'll actually see the loss of ability to work on your own car that is decried today by folks who advocate classic car technology over cars with computer systems.

Within our community the real question around self-driving cars should be the ability to create an open platform, and whether this is a space that hobbyists should be permitted to operate. Without this, we'll all be driving Lowly's Apple car in a few years.
No, but they do get into the car reckless as to harming someone else, which is a culpable state of mind as well. E.g. You shoot a gun into the air in downtown Chicago and the bullet happens not to kill anyone on the way back down. You didn't mean to kill any body, but it certainly was criminally reckless.

Besides that, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Why is manslaughter different than murder? The only difference is the intent--the end result is the same (someone's dead). When the state of mind is the same, why should luck in the outcome change the punishment?
A team of superstars is fine, but you can't have a team of all leaders. This is where personality comes into play. The team has to let someone lead. If you can find a small group of really talented people who also have their egos in check to follow a lead, amazing things can get done.

One of the benefits of microservices and highly modularized software is that you can have a team of superstars and still give the individuals the challenges they crave.
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And most of those people now work on V8 and Dart.
Some nuance should be applied here: this is usually said in the context of startups.

In the first few years of a startup, there's no such thing as a mundane support role. The first person you hire for support is your future "VP Customer Support". The first few people will form the support culture and processes of a company for the future.

In this context, all hires should be A-players, because they are supposed to contribute way more than just fulfil the role in their job description.
I gave the tool a try on a document I'm drafting for review by our lawyer. It's pretty interesting and I can definitely see it saving some time. I'm curious though, aren't there any word processing applications built specifically for lawyers that solve this problem? It always amazes me how poor the functionality of Word for legal documents is.
I find the conclusions made by this paper to be dubious. Perhaps the reporting is weak and did not properly delve into the methodology used by the authors of the paper to draw their conclusions. But based on the article, couldn't it be possible that teams that have the higher percentage of superstars opted to load up on star players and therefore had less resources to flesh out the rest of the team. What would be the point of having let's say five or six world class players in soccer if you can only recruit below average players for the rest of the positions.
Prime numbers can't be factored.
IPSec still has forward secrecy even with pre-shared keys.
Ah I didn't realize it. I've never driven through a corn field on California, or I've never noticed it like in the Midwest. And it's all to feed the cows of course.
Italics. And even worse (because it is more common), bold. Hey, let's throw in "I want to have something bold and italics and this colour".

Possibly I'm rare, but I'm frustrated very frequently...
That isn't the terminal, though, that's the software using it. A VT100 could be made to do any of that.
Yes, I miss it in languages like Java and C# as well.

But this is easy in prototype-based languages.
Jason works for the Internet Archive, so yeaaaah, I'd say there's a very good chance of that.
If Apple is testing their own drivetrain and (rumored) driverless system outdoors they don't need to do it with Jony Ive sheet metal on it. It'll be buried inside some generic minivan or sedan. You might be able to spy on the testing but it will look like a Honda dealer training session.
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The "number 2 in sweet corn" is a little bit cherry picked, sweet corn is the corn grown for humans and is just a little bit of the total corn grown (~1%). It's much nicer fresh, so it isn't surprising that a huge state grows quite a lot of it.

The numbers at the provided link reveal the picture, talking about California having ~200,000 acres of grain corn and the US having 87 million acres of corn.

(As an aside, in my limited experience, Europeans might not know that corn on the cob as eaten in the US is always sweet corn, and that modern varieties barely need to be cooked, pretty much just heated through. Methods vary, but just a minute or two of boiling is pretty common.)
Nobody is arguing that tape doesn't provide the best capacity per dollar. However I get the sense that tape hasn't kept up with spinning disks, let alone SDDs (on Moore's law).

It's just not the 50x factor it once was. More like 10x. Tape is on nobody's radar anymore, whereas as recently as 15 years ago it was still discussed by the mainstream IT commentariat. Gees I even remember PC Magazine recommending desktop users buy some DAT-based tape system. Now, tape is nowhere to be seen.

And that's not really surprising to me when you think that a petabyte of highly responsive spinning disk array can be done for less than a 150 grand, hotswap redundancy included. That's for a superfast 2-d medium as opposed to an eternity-seek-time 1-d medium. Spinning disk is a medium which can be used for live redundancy, a crucial requirement in the internet age.

Sure I think the NSA and GOOG might have need to archive exabytes onto tape. But that's not a mainstream market and for precisely 100% of hacker news readers, tape doesn't exist anymore.
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Jason Scott (HN user "textfiles") works at the Internet Archive, which operates archive.org.
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"Indicator added to tabs that play audio with one-click muting"

Awesome ! This is the only feature that could have me switch to Chrome. :)
The scrollback buffer problem is annoying, but I just don't think there's a good solution to it.

screen (and tmux) basically store their own scrollback. The advantage here is that you can then page through the line history on another terminal or even another computer. The downside is that that your terminal (xterm/iterm/whatever) has to decide what to show when you page up. It has no way to read screen's internal scrollback, so it can either show you old non-screen lines, or hide the scrollback entirely. Switching into/out of screen will just add to the confusion.

(I think some terminals will hide the scrollback history when they spot the TTY in curses-style mode, and only bring it back when that process quits?)

One other annoyance for me is the behaviour of scrollback with a command like 'less' or 'more'. If you are paging down through a file, then scroll back up, some terminals will show you earlier lines of the file you are viewing, while others show you 'pre-less' scrollback.
The manager of a group can add emails of people without google accounts. They then only get emails (no web interface meaning no searching) and they cannot change the settings from digest to individual though the manager can. A wee bit unfriendly, to be sure, but it gets it done.
Just to nitpick: you mean factor the product of two large prime numbers.
I donated as well, and look forward to seeing these manuals digitized one day.
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Doesn't the tech landscape change too quickly, though? If you start a lifestyle business in tech and adjust your life to fit the new income (house, kids, etc), who says it won't go out of business in the next 10 years through no fault of yours? Doesn't it make more sense to shoot for FU money instead?
For every prime p, we have p = 1 * p (clearly a factoring of p, though a trivial one). So rather "Prime numbers can't be factored in a nontrivial way.",
It is in fact still used to treat hemochromatosis, which is an "iron overload" disorder. It's relatively common in some populations.
You are correct of course; Apple's first was a PC. But apropos of nothing, Steve & Steve's first 'product' was blue boxes [1].

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[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box
Why do I love that web page. Nothing but black text on white, few red links. Amazing.
I have next to zero understanding of how quantum computers are supposed to work. Does anyone have something like an intro into QC "for dummies"? I want to grasp this subject.
>For example Feynman couldn't explain to a layman how magnets work, but explained why not:

And it's possibly his failure, not some intrinsic property of MAGNETS WORKING that's impossible to explain to laymen. In his own words,

"I can't explain that attraction in terms of anything else that's familiar to you."

"... because I don't understand it in terms of anything else that you're familiar with."
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Well, I'm happy for you that Windows 10 seems to meet your needs and apparently doesn't cause you any problems. But I stand by my original position that Microsoft may have misjudged the business market if their strategy is to go consumer first and aim to fix any business concerns later. (Please also remember that I'm not saying they necessarily have misjudged, I'm just saying it's a risk if that's their strategy.)

Regardless of your opinion or mine, the corporate sysadmins and decision-makers evaluating a possible move to Windows 10 aren't going to be forming their opinions based on the kinds of reviews you linked to before, and they're going to be well aware of the kinds of issues raised by the less favourable coverage. What really matters isn't whether you can convince me that, say, changing a corporate WiFi SSID used by hundreds or thousands of people is no big deal, it is whether Microsoft can convince the sysadmins and the team running the help desk. And based on the reactions I've seen so far from people who are in those kinds of positions, Windows 10 certainly isn't making a great first impression, so I do think Microsoft has left themselves a bit of a mountain to climb.
Fantastic!

This comes at a good time for me -- I'm getting interested in TTY emulation.

Currently on a learn-Emacs kick. Every couple of years I start using it then back off due to general cruftiness. However, it is undeniably featurefull, and the idea of just learning one last editor rather than a bunch of half-baked ones is appealing.

What about embedding Emacs, through a TTY interface in whatever new fancy cool TM editor experiment you want?
Fines should be related to one's income. In Finland you can be unlucky enough to be fined a quarter of a million Euros for speeding if your income is high enough, same in Switzerland I think.
> [Touch ID] enables someone to build a large database of fingerprint hashes. (Don't give me any of that "it doesn't upload the actual fingerprints" - uploading hashes is just as useful to security services)

This is speaking from a position of ignorance. Apple has been leading the way with responsible fingerprint management, in contrast to nearly every other fingerprint-capable device manufacturer out there (e.g. see HTC's recent debacle). Presupposing good faith on their part, the stated design of Touch ID is to prevent even the fingerprint hash from being accessible to the OS itself, let alone leave the device. All the fingerprint logic and stored hashes runs on a logically distinct "secure enclave" and it checks your fingerprints and just returns "match" or "no match" back to the OS (as I understand it).

Technical details here https://www.quora.com/What-is-Apple’s-new-Secure-Enclave-and... but there's a white paper out there somewhere too.

If anything, this kind of set-up is what gives me some faith that Apple might do self-driving cars correctly, rather than other manufacturers who think it's somehow okay that the entertainment system runs on the same device that can change driving parameters. Apple clearly needs to up their game too, but it's clear that the possibility of hacking cars is a Bad Thing, and as cars get more networked and more smart it seems clear that some car manufacturers do not seem to have the in-house expertise capable of doing it responsibly, so I wouldn't be surprised if a tech company actually ends up doing a better job (whether that's Apple or Google or whoever).
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People are willing to share their purchasing info or receipt in exchange of

(1) Ability to request a negotiated price (which we will do on their behalf) AND/OR

(2) Ability to see at what price other people are buying the product nearby.
Couple of corrections:

1) Public key cryptography relies on difficulty of factoring products of large primes.

2) Non-quantum computers can factor these numbers, it is just that the nature of the problem seems to require an expensive (non-polynomial to size of input) algorithm on classical computers. With quantum computers a polynomial time algorithm exists (Shor's algorithm).
I never create a class hierarchy or implementation layer as a reuse concern, even though this accusation comes up often (from naive FP people). It is totally just a way of isolating and modularizing complexity. If you want reuse, look elsewhere, like in libraries or components. Designing nice abstractions is hard in any paradigm: the last time I was in a room with the Haskell folks (like SPJ), they spent a lot of time talking about building elegant abstractions for solving problem X in Haskell, where coming up with those abstractions didn't seem easy at all.

I don't think one can really teach reusable abstraction design like one can teach algorithms. There is no science behind it, there is no way to "measure" it. You can't create exam questions about it.
I stayed at Bally's. We just got normal Bally's room keys. Maybe we arrived too early (Tuesday)?
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it would be cool to have

new CompoundExpression( "x^2 - xy + 5" )

or even

new PolishSquarefree("+")("+")("^")("x")(2)("-xy")(5)

or even

new Polish("+")("-")("^")("x")(2)(".")("x")("y")(5)
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Same in haskell (ghc haskell at least).
>I'll just fill out the HIPAA authorization form granting my potential employer access to my medical history

If I saw an auth form for any medical records release I would nope the fuck out too. That doesn't sound typical or correct. I have only seen releases for the results of the test which yes, if come back positive and you have proof of legal use will indicate you've been getting treatment based on someone's guess. However, it should stop there. If someone from HR starts asking medical questions about why you are getting treatment, that sounds like it's crossing a serious line and I'd be looking into whether that's legal or not. That sounds like a company that is hiring some shitty people, never mind whether they are good or not because they have a drug testing policy.

>Why bother with this nonsense when there are so many better employment options?

You want to work in a specific industry
"Do you know of any resources to learn about tech lifestyle businesses?"

https://unicornfree.com/

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This post adequately explains why learning modern C++ is useful, but -- speaking as someone whose C++ experience looks more like hacking together C-style code with objects -- what are the best resources to actually learn modern C++?
Hi does anyone know how to download Algebra.js ?

I clicked the "Download .min.js" tab on the Algebra.js.org page but was given this error message :

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There is absolutely nothing related to FRP in this blog post, not even "composable event streams" for that matter. This is just using a CSP channel as a (global) event bus. It essentially replaces the (global) dispatcher with a CSP channel. This blog post's approach is essentially typical Flux and nothing else. And doesn't improve to make it more functional either, because both `onClick={this.clickHandler}` and `yield csp.put(channel, {actionType: 'incr'});` are imperative code.
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Ok, why?
You're engaged in a nirvana fallacy: comparing something real to some theoretical but non-existent ideal.

Bitcoin "solves the problem" to a much greater extent than any other actual system. It provides a base on which privacy can be improved over time. Tumbling is not required to upgrade privacy in Bitcoin, there are many other techniques that can help too.
There may not be a good solution currently, but I don't believe that no good solution is possible even in theory. Which makes me wonder if the VT100 paradigm is holding us back.

Like, if a VT100 understood the concept of tabs natively, it seems like this wouldn't be a problem. Screen could just map its windows onto VT100 tabs, and the terminal would know what to do with that.

I don't know if adding tabs to VT100 emulators would be remotely feasible, or a good idea if it was, but I expect there's something in this space that would be an improvement on what we have.
Now that you mention it, the whole thing does seem to lack a certain appreciation for the gravity of the incident. A person got raped and the company's reply is:

"Oh, we're sorry. Security is our number 1 priority and we'll call the police ourselves next time."

And the debate here is "Well the victim should have contacted the police themselves. Doesn't he even know which emergency number to call?"

While I sincerely I hope the conversation would have been more serious if the victim was a girl, I am appalled at the current reaction.
What's the 'advanced math' used for the moving average? Some form of convolutional filter?
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I can see how this can be true. I've seen a team of "star" programmers fail massively on what should be a simple project. They over designed, they used all the new and latest, framework, language, plus spent all their time reinventing the wheel. They forgot about time/budget constraint.

Meanwhile, a much less talented scrappy team, just figures, "Hey!, we ain't so smart so we are going to get all the help we can" No new technology, just small established libraries and simple design, KISS, and what do you know? they shipped!

You can load up your sales team with talented sales agent and see massive output, they don't need much team interaction. But a dev team? If they are super smart, the problem better be tough or they will invent new problems to solve.
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emacs is almost exactly the other way round - it provides its own TTY interface so you can run a shell or UNIX command inside its own buffers!

Good luck with the emacs learning. I've been a user for years and have barely scraped the surface of its features. Luckily, you don't need to be an expert in emacs for it to be a good editor.
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"Which brings me back to my original point: there is so much money chasing so many good ideas, but there are very few founders who can effectively execute."

It's a good thing that "everyone calling it a bubble means it isn't a bubble" (also from TFA) because otherwise this would sound like the classic conditions for one: too much money chasing returns in suboptimal companies because there's a shortage of good ones...
I feel like this is a misleading headline. Law enforcement hands out modest, immediate penalties for other infractions every day - speeding tickets. Yet people still speed. This article is about targeting punishment and remedy to the 'other contributor' to the crime, alcohol, vs getting behind the wheel.
I'm wary of naming the dependency, because it's a vendor's solution and I'm not trying to call them out, but it's their ecosystem of tools and it has to run as the host OS, not virtualized. But all your comments are spot-on, and I appreciate it.

The Upstart thing is just somewhat odd, because it's a Canonical project, and Ubuntu is also Canonical's. At any rate, you're right that it's not immediately lost. But trying to pin against even the long-term releases of Ubuntu seems hopeless. I've been working on upgrading a 12.04 deployment to 14.04. There aren't any features that we're missing in the OS, so it's really only a concern from a security or support perspective. The shop I'm in was already using Ubuntu when I came on, but maybe the lesson here is to migrate to Debian, rather than bother upgrading to the newer Ubuntu release. (Migrating to CentOS would be somewhat more work.)
But if keeping certain people from drinking reduces domestic violence measurably, clearly the activity does create risk for the public. That makes it fundamentally legitimate to regulate that activity, and the question then shifts to the efficacy of any particular sort of regulation.

That's an enormous assumption that is being made. What about the social deadweight loss from a person's freedom and personal agency being diminished through substance bans?