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You left out the worst incident I know of:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/12/us/north-carolina-nuclear-...

The US was one arming switch away from nuking North Carolina in 1961. This and a bunch of other really scary nuclear-related accidents are covered in Command & Control: http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illu...
That amount could be the result of all they can prove.
Soviet-era housing blocks are perfectly livable, they have a floor, a roof, walls, a toilet, heat, running water. What more could you possibly want in an apartment?

They were also brutally ugly.

When you have to live with something, interact with it constantly, you might want it to look nice.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207454
Linux is just a kernel. It always has been and always will be. It is pretty useless without userspace. That's why we have distros. As long as multiple distros exist, they need some way or other to differentiate themselves. Differentiation in distros naturally presents us with choice. Linux has always been and will always be about choice. Any attempt to converge the userspace does not change that.

If you want an operating system where everything is developed in tandem, you might want to consider switching to one of the BSDs.
> Not everyone lives in densely populated urban areas

But record numbers do, increasing every year particularly in Asia, where most people live.

Some people will always have personal cars, just like some people will always have personal horses. They are both sometimes practical and often fun, if expensive.
> Once you clear away the essentially non-interactive uses, is it really "disappearing"? Except for maybe a few whiteboards instead of blackboards, it's not going anywhere any time soon, I think. I've never seen a digital replacement that even comes close.

Using powerpoint slides to set up the problem and then a microsoft surface to work through it is what one of my current professors does. It's amazing. I used to feel the same way you did, but it is going away. To be able to record this with his voice is what makes it special.
r/futurism (https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurism/) sidebar:

> The founder of Futurism and its most influential personality was the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Marinetti launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published for the first time on 5 February 1909 in La gazzetta dell'Emilia, an article then reproduced in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909. He was soon joined by the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and the composer Luigi Russolo.

> Marinetti expressed a passionate loathing of everything old, especially political and artistic tradition. "We want no part of it, the past", he wrote, "we the young and strong Futurists!" The Futurists admired speed, technology, youth and violence, the car, the airplane and the industrial city, all that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature, and they were passionate nationalists. They repudiated the cult of the past and all imitation, praised originality, "however daring, however violent", bore proudly "the smear of madness", dismissed art critics as useless, rebelled against harmony and good taste, swept away all the themes and subjects of all previous art, and gloried in science.

Notice in particular "admired [...] violence", and "however daring, however violent".

The original article cites numerous examples, centrally the one about a futuristic workplace without women, and my post cites a GK Chesterton piece that directly criticizes, with quotes, Marinetti's manifesto.

For HN, just consider that threads dealing with "women in tech" or "minorities in tech" or "gentrification" are routinely flagged down, with a share of the website being very vocal about wanting articles focused on technology and gadgets. Insofar this is hacker "news", about new and upcoming things, many users feel like these human topics do not qualify. They still make the front-page, proving that it's far from a universal opinion, but the contingent is there.
I get a big pop-over on which you have to click 'Close', but it seems free to access after that.
Maybe they should have figured out a better way to accomplish this goal, then.
Such as sub-prime mortgages?
That is how tribal warfare work.

when you have lots of hostile tribes, you need to join one or create your own, you cannot as a single person face them.

when the government behaves like a tribe too, then stuff is unfixable, only violence removal of other tribes work (until eventually there is only one tribe or coalition of tribes that are aligned, then they can afford disbanding).
I think this is true. One should always very carefully consider the notion that a rewrite is a good idea.
I'm not going to lie, the social pressure is non-zero, and it is indeed another lever for micromanagers to pull, but I think you're being overly pessimistic here.

The impact of this tech has not yet been fully explored and we may see the general populace finally accept that individual privacy is paramount and (dare I say) a sacred line that must never be crossed.

We're seeing a shift towards empowering individuals and placing more emphasis on giving them a choice in such matters, and I think that's a good thing and an important step in bringing useful tech to the masses.

Or maybe I'm being overly optimistic. More power to employers is coming whether we like it or not and eternal vigilance will be required to stave off the above said toxicity.
How important is it to have a CS degree in particular, as opposed to any other 4-year degree?
At last. Now I can dig in...
I've actually used a plain state object with UUID version tags saved at each node that needs to be optimized. Whenever the store updates that node, it also updates the version tag with a new UUID. Then shouldComponentUpdate just checks whether the version tag is different before rendering.

For my purposes this optimizes at least as well as ImmutableJS, and there is no overhead from loading and using a dedicated library. However it does require extra boilerplate and manual updates to version tags each time something changes, and it can cause confusion if you forget to update a version tag or accidentally update the wrong one. Anyway, it is one alternative, but if you don't have a compelling reason not to use ImmutableJS for optimization I'd probably go with that. Of course it is perfect for undo/redo functionality too if that is a requirement.
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I'm going to be honest, I miss those days. Granted I used to have to wipe my machine every month at least, and things became horribly corrupt, but it was fun.
Define "successful hardware Kickstarter". There's more than just the ones you hear about because they raised millions. The vast majority of hardware Kickstarters get shipped without additional funding.
That could really be a game changer in mobile development.
I don't buy it. American people do want drugs in their community and in their society or else the US wouldn't be the biggest market for illicit drugs in the world.
Agree that the challenge is in obtaining partnerships, but not every retailer needs full control of the shopping experience, especially on mobile. And that's the win - alleviating the need for every retailer to solve the same technical problem.
This is pretty cool (I'm working on an ecommerce app now). What I'm not clear on is this:

Can apps selling relay products get a cut of the sale?

What incentive is there for a "product discovery app" (or whatever) to sell other products? Can they define some sort of fee %?

UPDATE: Chatted with Stripe on IRC and they clarified that there's currently no way to share sales revenue or let apps define a % commission.
I only know of etsy through their software blog, so this might be a bit left field, but I have always wondered how much money there really is in that "perfect" hand made item. Most artists in Anglo-Saxon world can't make a living - they either have jobs and do painting / sculpting as a hobby, or they turn to crafts (I'm a three-year postgrad trained sculpture artist - can I make you a gate for your driveway?)

Our society simply does not value art sufficiently to pay a living wage for it. Look at painting - the number of prints and posters sold in the mass market is enormous. At between 10 and 100 bucks it's a fairly common and lucrative trade, and some photos of New York can be found in a million IKEA furnished homes.

But if IKEA stocked genuine, hand painted one offs, even in the volumes needed, would they go at say, 500 to 1000 bucks?

(I assume we want a nice painting of average poster size - so 2-5 days work to paint a canvas at a decent rate - about 25,000 bucks pa at the low end - just above the U.S. Poverty line if raising a family)

So, not disparaging etsy, but my "mental smell test", highly biased that it is, tells me that 1000 bucks for a painting against 750 for a sofa won't go well at the mass market - and it won't go well in a mass market web site either.

Etsy is a Walmart, stocked high with that "perfect distressed framed mirror", and wondering where the impedance mismatch is coming from.
What's the difference between Relay and the Enterprise version of Shopify?
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I think your step 2 should be the first thing you do. What's the point of spending money if you don't know you can make it back? A business plan is part of initial product development.
From his perspective it certainly must seem that way. He can probably even point to a paper published by a legitimate researcher to show that it does happen. Even if it was written by someone who was paid to do so and all his coauthors later retracted their support.
And yet, physical camera size still imposes some limitations. Aperture size affects the amount of light, and in extreme cases we are close to counting individual photons. Aperture size also affects sharpness, with smaller apertures providing less resolution. Cameras are dead, but not to enthusiasts or pros.
You'll never get good bokeh from a tiny telephone lens. A big (and fast) lens is needed for that. There are laws of optics that will ensure cameras will never disappear ;-)
>I'm talking about iCalendar properties, parameters and components, NOT webdav properties. The distinction is important.

It wasn't clear at all what you meant.

It has caused quite a bit of trouble for CardDAV interopability, since particularly Apple has defined proprietary extensions for crucial features like groups. This lead to other clients adopting the proprietary extension, only for it to be invalidated at the next wiggle of the worm.

On collection properties, Apple has also added the color property to calendar collections. I'm sure you remember the rant on CalConnect by one of FastMail's employees about both the lack of documentation and standardization of such extensions.

Supporting arbitrary properties can be good for interop, but in DAV's case it has brought many proprietary, optional extensions whose support is almost taken for granted by the user.

EDIT: Note that I'm not for discarding unrecognized props, I'm for rejecting the whole item.
That it is parasitic is factual. That parasitism is immoral is my opinion.
Sure, not everyone, but an ever-increasing number:

"In 1950, one-third of the world’s people lived in cities. Just 50 years later, this proportion has risen to one-half and will continue to grow to two-thirds, or 6 billion people, by 2050. Cities are now home to half of humankind."

http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/briefingpapers/cities/vita...
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When porting a React Native app to android 85% of the iOS version was reused:

"At the time of shipping Ads Manager for Android, that approach yielded around 85 percent reuse of app code."
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> The picture taken was totally not necessary to make these 3D models. You could just buy one of each of the seven lock types, and saw them open to look at the pin arrangements.

Is it really that simple with modern locks? I thought they had gotten good at foiling this kind of attack.
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Hmm. I agree that the pixel count on phones is crazy and making a lot of cameras redundant these days, but it is still all about the glass when it comes to creating high-end images. There's a reason why Zeiss, Canon, Cooke etc have lenses in the 10s of thousands of dollars mark.
I'm struggling to discern your point here. I'm not arguing for the infallibility of official institutions, but how often do you imagine one mob can succeed in holding another mob accountable for its mistakes?
I do find it interesting that the transition from digital camera to phone camera is at least as noteworthy as the one from film to digital. I've had a film camera in my lifetime, and the huge win with digital is that I can snap half a dozen pictures for every one that might turn out. But the huge win with digital is that I more often actually do the one useful thing to be done with photos: share them.

We took many thousands of digital camera photos, of which a vanishingly small fraction ever left the camera. By contrast, photos I snap on my phone end up in text messages, on Twitter, attached to emails, attached to bug reports, used in presentations, or otherwise turned into something useful.
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Ahhhh yes, the old "you don't know how I grew up" argument but with a global twist.

Fortunately we are all products of our various environments, so quit telling people to stop moralizing if you don't have "the slightest clue as to how it is to live" in a place where the demarcation between right and wrong is more clear.

(see how twisted that logic can get?)
Mirage seems like the continuation of exokernels, except designed to run under a bare metal hypervisor instead of a raw microarchitecture. I suppose being OCaml is a nice perk, though ultimately their scope is very limited (deploying applications).
Or employers will become more aware that the staff are probably unhappy and try to accommodate their wants and needs.

The pendulum swings both ways, it empowers abusive employers just as much as it empowers excellent ones. Insight is just that, insight, and it behooves us all to act responsibly.
Well now that means that Etsy is just a marketplace for people with quirky ideas and a number of knockoff competitors.

I'm not entirely certain I like that.
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Actually DanBC I didn't say that. I asked to put how to find the articles behind a paywall in an FAQ.

Anyway, I wrote it myself:https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/hacker-news-faq-1-ho...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10177172
He goes through pains to explain why that doesn't really matter for the argument. Punting the football a few decades down the line does not solve the underlying issue he's trying to illustrate.
I guess that's an expendable feature.
I would agree, but that's assuming everyone in the company is acting on behalf of and with the intentions of the company. I think there are plenty of examples where a company representative acts in a manner that is completely against what the company would want (see corporate Twitter accounts).
Founder of Two Tap here. It takes an average of three minutes to send the order to the retailer via our platform. On the frontend we use a similar model to Amazon where tell the shopper we're confirming her purchase and handle the process in the background. It's working great for Amazon, and it works great for us for a thousand merchants.

Retailers are incredibly happy by the fact that they don't have to do a complicated integration where they have to maintain a new piece of infrastructure for potentially getting less than 1% of their orders.

That being said, we're huge fans of Stripe. Always have been. John Collison was our mentor during YC. We're looking forward to seeing how they handle the challenges in the space.
"As we know to our cost, we witness this every day with climate change deniers".

Denial? No one will deny there's an asteroid bearing down on us, if there is. No one will deny that an appalling virus released from a research lab can kill us all, if in fact it was released and can do that. Denial is reserved for deviation from a faith. Such deviants are called heretics. The religious terminology says it all. Why talk about denial if the evidence is screaming at us. Please point to it; that's all you have to do. The heretics will recant immediately. Is CAGW a 'faith'? I guess so.
I tried to eye out "Batmobile" and had a surprisingly hard time compared to Colemak or QWERTY layouts. (I tested by making fake layouts in Photoshop.)

The issue being that while I can certainly find the letters when they are alphabetical - clusters of commonly used letters are further apart. Having "th" and "ng" visually close to each other aids a lot.
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Both are great epics of hacking history. I just wonder whether there are any more?
Did the update fix any of the bugs?
Maybe not physically but novel sensors (depth sensors, multi-camera arrays) and image processing algorithms make it possible to simulate these effects to a degree that would satisfy most users.
"The best camera is the camera you have with you."

I sometimes carried a digital camera (or before that a film camera) on vacations. I carry a phone with a camera everywhere I go.
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A small lense + depth awareness (via IR array, for example) can produce beautiful virtual bokeh, on par with $2000 lenses. All cellular phones will have this capability in the near future.
Our professors used markers on our smart boards. Very expensive mistakes.
I'm a shoot-on-the-run travel photographer. If I had to guess I probably have less than 5 seconds to setup and take the average shot. With a "real" camera, you can get all the knobs and buttons and such down to muscle memory and with a few manipulations usually get set to something you want. After taking something like 100,000 photos with my current camera, I barely even look at it to get it set how I want for a shot.

I've tried, really tried to get into the habit of using the camera I have, my phone camera. It's a decent 13MP, f2.2 camera with lots of familiar settings, but it takes so long to set up a shot with any of the camera apps I've tried that I usually miss what I want. Or there's some kind of weird "processing" delay after I shoot where the sensor stays on long after I've taken the shot and I end up with a blurry stupid mess.

With my real camera, I'd say that I'm probably really happy with about 1% of the shots I make, and decently happy with about 5%. With all the phones I've used, those number easily get cut by a fifth.

The workflow is also, for some reason, fussier with my phone than my camera. I'm usually traveling overseas when I shoot, so internet access is spotty, and I can't wait for my phone to sync over some craptastic Italian hotel wi-fi. Popping an SD card into my computer to transfer a day's shots off is much quicker and easier. (and yes, I've toyed around with just connecting up my phone to my computer to copy off of, but there's usually some kind of fuss over it being seen as a USB drive so I can copy off of).

Also, bokeh, I can get such beautiful creamy effortless bokeh with my long lens, and those photos look omg fantastic most of the time. My phone at best requires me to get right up on something and then I just get a blur on everything else. Whatever optical magic is happening in my camera, filters in photoshop just don't make up for it.
The human resources paradigm of "information economy" is on very shaky ground. Most of what people do isn't very visible, isn't very quantifiable. The feedback to management is crappy.

Most people are not passionate about their job in the sense that they are really motivated to do their best. And.. often the most important bits of work require that kind of motivation. Having ideas or whatnot. The kind of work a modern cubicle jockey does (say an advertising account manager at facebook or a social media evangelist at HSBC) actually does require self motivation. All that horrendous "passionate employees" HR is not coming out of nowhere. They really do need passionate employees.

There's this tension between discipline and information to managers and motivation. On one hand slacking, on the other useless passionless robots.

Orwell's lanyard s just a symptom.
Why are there only iOS screenshots in an Android blog post? I want to see the results of creating an Android app.

EDIT: screenshots were added :)
The general feeling on HN is that it is better to focus on Native development on both platforms because Cordova hybrid apps have a overall bad user experience. Is this still the case with React Native or is it becoming the most effective option?
My interest in this when it was iOS only was about >< this big, but now I may actually start skimming into things and see if this is something we'd want to use at work :)
Physical product sales are fine. Obviously.
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>(until eventually there is only one tribe or coalition of tribes that are aligned, then they can afford disbanding)

Or just form a new government.
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Are your implying that the ssl CA system isn't a huge shit show? Because it is, and it's only incrementally more secure than the tsa keys.
React Native apps compile into native apps. That is, no Cordova.
We've been experimenting with adjusting it, but that was a bug. No one wants identical links on the front page.