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You miss my point completely. Radio controlled aircraft all have a similar threat profile to commercial and private aviation. That has been true before the big drone explosion. Drones don't pose any more threat than any other R/C plane[1].

And yet there has been a concerted effort to call out drones as a threat, so why? And the only reason that comes up is that drones in the form of quad/hex/octa copters can do things that regular R/C planes can not, and those things are threatening to people and privacy on the ground, not the air. So why not talk about the real problem instead of this "made up" problem?

[1] Ok so balsa or styrofoam gliders are probably not on anyone's list of threats.
Sure, he's responsible.

But he deserves a month in jail, at most.
All this is true; but Nadella has driven real change at the company that was long overdue. I had been a frequent critic of Ballmer's management of the company, and I like a lot of the things that Nadella has been doing.

Ballmer had an attitude that Microsoft needed to dominate every industry they participated in or they would take their toys and go home. That mindset doesn't work in today's technology world, where markets overlap and shift rapidly.

Nadella can't change the culture of the company overnight, but he has pushed through a bunch of great changes to their product strategy -- especially in the consumer space. I mean, Office 2016 finally has a consistent interface on OS X, Windows and Android/iOS. And Microsoft has an enterprise sales partnership with Apple! That would never have happened under Ballmer -- Microsoft is essentially letting Apple use its greatest asset (its partner sales channels) to push iPads so that Microsoft can sell Office and Exchange licenses. Nevermind that its channel partners were already selling their clients iPads anyway; Ballmer would have crammed Surface down the pipeline and wondered why sales numbers were sluggish.

I think toward the end of his tenure, Ballmer started to see why the company was so dysfunctional: it was built for the cutthroat tech landscape of 1998, not the highly fractured-but-integrated market of 2015. His last major moves as CEO were to get rid of the most divisive senior executives to pave the way for a guy like Nadella who could be a peacemaker with the rest of the tech world. Ballmer tore down the silos about a year before putting Nadella in charge of rebuilding the company, which in hindsight was a great move.

All this said, you're absolutely right about keeping one eye open: Nadella is pushing change from the top, but there are a lot of middle managers and junior executives who still do things the old way and will probably never change. You can't change the culture of a company overnight, and they will still continue to be evil in lots of small, subversive ways. If the market lets them get away with being shitty to their customers, they will do it.
They won't write those things in the books on communism, but it's telling that when Stalin and Mao went "off the book", 100 million working class people had to die. And of course, anywhere that descends into anarchy results in a dramatic rise in deaths.

And the only communist states that survived without forgetting to feed their own people were the ones bankrolled by the USSR, for example eastern Europe and Cuba. The two biggest ones that did survive, the USSR and China, did in fact forget to feed their own people for a long time.
The point was to make it clear why it is obviously possible to solve poverty by throwing money at it. Now you have a worst case cost. Then the question is how much cheaper can you make it.

E.g. how much investment and in what would it take before the network effects and increased trade will ensure there are enough jobs to lift those who can work out of poverty, and provide enough tax revenues for governments in question to care for those who can't work.
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Responsibly throwing money at problems is exactly how you solve them. There are a lot of factors that we know of that contribute to continued poverty and cause suffering for those subject to it. This would include, among other things:

1. Universal education (free for anyone interested)
2. Universal healthcare (also free)
3. Improved housing
4. Reliable, clean utilities

Sure, this stuff might be expensive, but the long term benefit of having more healthy, educated people around significantly outweighs the cost.
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Yes, that's true. It can be a pain in the ass.

Here is our repo: https://github.com/hypriot/rpi-kernel

Cheers!
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I tend to think that the World Bank adjusts this amount in an appropriate manner. If you think their methodology is wrong, you should explain why.
The fact that the surface pro 4 has a much more robust battery life, without the keyboard attached, makes it my product of choice if I'm going to buy one of these things. Thing is, I don't need all the extra horsepower from this machine. Awesome design.
> Even a language that gets (lack of) pointers and array bounds checking and the like 100% correct can only possibly save 5% of your hair from being pulled out.

That's not my experience, and I work in a very specialized domain (at the moment, OpenGL, in fact). It doesn't eliminate all the bugs, but memory safety saves me a lot of time.
I don't think that's a fair position to take, fair to yourself that is. The company then is not the same as it is now. Enough time has passed since then and now that it's safe to assume that all the people in important positions have been partly replaced, and I'm sure the majority of those who remain are now in different situations than they were back then.

I think it's wrong to withhold fair consideration for MS products (specifically) just because they did something you think is wrong years ago.
It's just a 3rd-party identity verification web service. I've gone through that at a number of sites.
Most Common Lisp implementations, for what it's worth, take this approach as well. For tight loops where you've removed the invariants and proved its bounds removing the run-time checks can give a non-trivial performance boost to production systems.
To help you answer that literally: according to Simon Mann who did it successfully twice and failed once [1], a successful mercenary invasion and peace-keeping effort in a country like Sierra Leone cost around 1 million GBP in the mid-1990s.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Cry-Havoc-Simon-Mann/dp/1743142307
I really like Mubi, I just don't keep it all year like I do with Netflix because of their one film a day model.
That's one half of it.

The other half is making sure that people can bargain from a position of power rather than getting stuck in a spiral of exploitative transactions.
What a bizarre conclusion at the end. Is it a Macbook alternative? Yes but no, because "Switching ecosystems is dicey business."

Tech journalist's reasons for the Surface not being a viable option are getting ridiculous. The SP1 apparently wasn't powerful enough as a laptop and didn't have the battery of a tablet. The SP2 was powerful enough with a longer battery, but it's hard to use full Windows in a touch device. The SP3 is powerful enough, long lasting battery enough, light enough, with a big enough screen to use via touch, but then "lapability" became a metric in articles. Now everything's great, but "switching ecosystems is dicey business".

It's strange the way goalposts keep getting shifted with each iteration. I switched completely to the MS ecosystem with the SP3 and it was easy.
> Do you know how many sport shooters or hunters are involved in murders? (legitimate question)

No, and I don't understand the relevance.

> While the situation in the US is bad, I don't think a straight ban is the answer. It's definitely complicated.

It is indeed complicated, but it's pretty clear that the status quo isn't the answer either.
Great article.

I have ambivalent feelings about the constant need to justify why we need to learn the truth about something extremely big. Particularly using complicated analogies that have to show how its relevant to today. I understand scholars need to raise money and part of this is showing why something "matters today" but I prefer the altruistic search for truth.
ie the whole history is valuable because history repeats itself idea is so boring (and never really true) which the author does a great point making.

But again great piece.
How did MS screw Verizon with Kin? It's not clear from the article...
WB fixed it in terms of constant International $, with base year 2005 - if I can remember correctly. So it's already inflation adjusted because it's at constant prices and not nominal prices.

Having said that, in most developing countries, being on the poverty line would mean that you have just enough for clothing and feeding yourself.

Nevertheless, it's exciting to see millions graduating out of it in just a decade. Specially for me, because I'm Indian.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY

Population below $1.25 a day is the percentage
of the population living on less than $1.25 a
day at 2005 international prices

Also you might find this interesting - http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH...

Moreover, the choice between $1.00 a day and $1.25
a day (or even higher lines) makes no difference to
the Bank’s claim that measures of absolute poverty
have fallen in the developing world over 1981-2005.
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Not exactly sure where they differ. But the most obvious thing is that Snappy has a completely different way of installing packages and its own package format, too.

HypriotOS on the other hand just uses the standard Debian way of installing and managing software.
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Alcohol, motorcycle, and vehicle regulations also vary state-to-state. There are examples of operating a motorcycle and/or vehicle without a state license is allowed. You are required to have a license to operate the vehicle on public roads, for instance. Many states have similar regulations on carrying a weapon in public, versus having a gun only in your house. These states usually have similar requirements of training and demonstration of proficiency before granting a carry license. Although I've never heard of insurance for such a thing, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
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This should not be "inflation" but "price change for very basic needs"
I recently purchased a Dell(not a XPS though) and develop primarly on Ubuntu. Unity has gone long way in terms of usability and i'm totally fine with it. And you don't really miss out on dev features compared to OS X.
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They have a reassuring security page[0]. It's nice to see they're enforcing good practices, I especially appreciate their "no-link email policy" where they will never send you links in emails, which seems like a great way to head off phishing attempts. I hope they actually present this to users in some way during sign-up though, or it won't be of much help unless a user manually navigates to the security page and reads through most of it.

I'm a little disappointed that they only have level 2[1] HSMs in the cloud, as I would be uncomfortable protecting my hot wallet keys with only tamper evident protections, rather than level 3+ that actually attempt to detect intrusion and delete keys. Bitcoin makes for very quick stealing once you have keys, so reactive defenses against key loss don't help much as you're literally in a race condition with the attacker to empty the wallet (you into a non-compromised one, the attacker into their own). But I would assume they weighed cost/risk and I've never heard of a security compromise of Amazon's HSMs so it was probably a reasonable choice.

edit: I should also applaud their use of PGP and (explicit) respect for responsible disclosure.

[0]: https://exchange.gemini.com/security

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-2#Level_2
I haven't actually built a cube myself, but I support a few right now. My boss, who built ours, always refers me to Ralph Kimball's "The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit" (you mentioned Oracle, so maybe there are synonymous toolsets out there)

I know you said you're aware of Ralph Kimball, but the first ~100 pages are broken into 1) Defining the Business Requirements and 2) Designing the Business Process Dimensional Model. It's really helped me wrap my head around the original design of the Facts and Dimensions as they relate to the business.
Yeah, another to way to put it is they aim for legitimacy so they can be the bitcoin counterparty of choice for Fortune 500s and wall street. And generally run things like any sane financial institution dealing with volatile securities.

Not running a bitcoin cafe out of customer funds...
I don't know the answer to the convenience of free trade, but I think there is different kinds of international trade and we talk about all them as if they are the same thing.

For instance, the more successful economies Japan, Germany, China, Korea didn't follow the same model of free trade that has been "suggested" to the South American countries. In fact, in the eighties everybody complained how difficult was to access to the Japanese markets.

The other thing is that is very different free trade of commodities vs. free movement of capitals but normally it's sold like it's the same. If you are in Peru is probably a bad idea get a lease denominated in U.S. dollars, no matter how good the deal looks now.
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FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridiculous," "embarrassing"
Yes but having it spelled out on your bank statement as a direct charge is quite diferent
How do we search and see if the area where I currently do research in is something that YC Research would focus on in the near future? I am finishing up a MS in ChBE with a focus on designing materials using computational methods (eg. DFT) and would like to continue with similar projects.
Everything in the world is handmade. It's all about the tooling.
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Yes, that is a problem (and even worse facing a parole board), but showing remorse is very much about convincing the court you won't do it again. So explain that you think the crime in question is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad act and that you would never do such a thing, especially not in the future. As opposed to e.g. insisting even if you didn't do it, they had it coming anyway.
I really wish MSFT would hurry up and make a plain old one piece ultrabook. I really don't want a device with an innovative hinge and removable screen. An ultrabook with this level of design quality, and vanilla Windows you can buy at the MSFT store, would be an instant winner in my book.
According to this, it was less (82%): http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ (select 1990-2015)
>Food for thought in light of the common belief that we still live by the Constitution.

I won't be so naive that things haven't changed a lot since it's inception, but I don't recall Rome having an independent judiciary either, with sole jurisdiction over Constitutional issues.

Just saying. I don't think it's as dead as some might lead you to believe.
> And due to comparative advantage, even competing against imports with free open trade is better than being closed off.

Maybe. Sometimes. Under certain circumstances.
You may think I am joking, but Coca-Cola or Dean Kamen might have some ideas for you:

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/ekocenter/ekocenter-empoweri...

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/pure-genius-how-dean-k...
Microsoft isn't going to die, but their enormous influence has eroded nicely. They're a mature, profitable, mostly boring company and I'm okay with that. XBox is pretty hip, but the reset of the company is about as interesting to the general public as Oracle, Cisco, or IBM.
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Sure you can, Proxmox has distributed ZFS with it's custom Debian-based OS for over a year now.

ZFS comes pre-installed and the installer for Proxmox even gives you the options to install the OS directly onto a bootable zpool that is created automatically by the installer itself.
I had the same reaction. My assumption was that this camera allows for variable depth of field in post production, but virtually nothing about the video says this. They showed someone tweaking a photo but the shot was too short and subtle to notice.

Personally I'm completely turned off by the cellphone form factor, its possibly the worst possible way to hold something steady to take a photograph.
That line struck me too.

Apple has had GPU switching for quite a while (my 2010 MacBook Pro has it, and I don't think it was the first). So clearly MS didn't invent that.

I wonder if what he's talking about is the fact that it's a mainstream production system where the dedicated GPU is actually removable. Not a "Plug this into your Thunderbolt port" thing or a "Turn it off and stick this module in", but a "just pull it apart and the GPU is no longer there".

The balance part was questionable writing.
While I don't immediately associate 'best practices' with 'agile methodology' and 'microservices' (although I can see how recent articles on HN might strengthen that association), I have noticed that the busier I am with programming, and the more 'best practices' and 'optimization' and 'DRY' are on my mind, the more it seems to seep into the rest of my life. I start timing my bicycle commute and optimizing my route to avoid traffic lights or catch green waves, I try to do the dishes at optimal speed, I make sure that every 'trip' to a place in the house is as efficient as possible (take something one way, another thing on the way back, etc.).

I'm not sure it's healthy, but at least it's... odd/funny.
> Why is Apple the worst offender?
(Top of my head) Lies and more lies (Power PC more Powerful than Intel X86, No malware, no virus, we are the definition of Innovation), Closed Wall Garden, Over Promising and Under Delivering, Patents, The eBook Price Fixing, the Approval Process on iOS, No Competition Hiring Agreement, Amiga Computer was 7 years ahead of the time and Apple lied about it for YEARS, Promising a Color Mac and it would be a simple card upgrade TOOK YEARS, and perhaps the worst of the lot iTunes GUI!!!!.

> When they ripped off Sun

Than why did Sun's CEO congratulate them? Sun also loves to rip off people look at Oracles' Unbreakable Linux AKA Redhat Linux.

I seriously have 30+ years of Apple hatred from before my Amiga days. Amiga community HATED Apple for their business practices and clear lack of innovation. I went to buy a Mac with my dad when released and my dad say the writing on the wall. Lies and more lies and Lisa wasn't more powerful just more expensive and you still sell those?
Not necessarily boring. Someone even managed to turn it into a best-selling series of books and major motion pictures: The Hunger Games. The name of the country in The Hunger Games is Panem, meaning, of course, bread! The games themselves are the circus used to pacify the populace, either through entertainment for the upper classes, or fear for the lower classes.

The most fun part of Wikipedia is always following the related links at the bottom of the article.
It's the purchasing power of $1.25/day, rather than the absolute value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity
How does this not create a conflicting trademark with ISE Gemini?
I agree that cheap labor starves innovation, but the cause of cheap labor is not a lack of a social system that boosts wages. It's lots of competitors trying to hire away your employees. The only way this is possible is by making it easier for new firms to enter the market. I'm not sure about Rome specifically, but in general, merchants and other businesses before the 18th century needed social connections and permission from their lords/kings/governors before opening a business. A 'corporation' was originally nothing more than a charter from your government saying you have permission to conduct business.
It's not just tech journalists. Nobody bought the SP1, and nobody bought the SP2. The sales numbers are awfull compared with sales of iPads or even regular Macbooks. Nobody is going to buy the Surface Book. (PS - people in this thread aren't youre regular folks, and their opnions really dont' matter in the long run. Just look at the raw sales figures and you'll see a product that nobody wants, nobody cares about, and nobody is going to get)
Jason Scott put up a post asking for them, you can ship them off if you want them archived. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4624
People like to anthropomorphize companies as having a conscience, but you're right: they're just autonomous control structures with the goal of making as much money as possible. Sometimes their leaders will make bad decisions prioritizing money now over money later, but ultimately such decisions are often just as bad for the long-term health of the company as they are for the market (even though they may provide a short-term benefit).

And for everyone who says Microsoft should have told the NSA to shove it, just consider how quickly a major CEO can be taken down by the government: Jeff Smisek, widely considered one of the two most powerful men in the airline industry, was forced out of his position as CEO of United Airlines as part of a government corruption scandal with no more fanfare than a tersely worded press release. He has yet to be charged with anything, but criminal charges are inevitably coming. Any company that does business with the US government (as Microsoft does) is likely participating in some form of corruption or another. All they have to do is investigate that corruption and long jail sentences for senior executives will follow. It's essentially the NSA's version of "plata o plombo".
FSCS only covers UK Banks the Uk and Dutch Government steped in to cover the shortfall when Iceland defaulted on their own protection scheme.
If there is a separation between the knowledge creation and the commercialization, I'm all for this model of funding science. However, the problem starts when NASA becomes a lab that creates patents with the intent of licensing them. In this scenario, NASA will stop focusing on advancement of knowledge and become focused on creating the kind of knowledge that will sell.
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Thats a good measure, but I am pessimistic about poverty ever being rooted out completely (absent of a technological invention that creates abundant energy for very cheap, e.g. fusion, antimatter later on).

The reality is, poverty can be cultural. In the west a saying like "they can pay me little but I'll work even less" would be considered absurd. In certain countries - its a folk tradition.

Another problem is a self-inflicted brain drain. Smart people with potential don't want to live in festering shitholes where property rights are not respected, rule of law unexistant and hence economic opportunity absent.
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