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It's up to you to not accept that excuse.

Except, the company endpoint is a low status programmer.

Imagine how quickly the average programmer would get laughed out of the room if they went to their manager and asked for $100,000 to pay an external contractor to implement a feature they need. Oh, also the feature will be open source and other companies will be able to use it after it's written too.

The world doesn't operate on that level yet outside of maybe seven companies in the world.
At least the Elliott 405 shipped with IO devices.
I hope a future HNer links to this ancient post then.
> Would that ever happen? Very rarely.

It happened to me a few years ago. A guy had just robbed a 7-11 and I was walking home from work. The cop stopped me, cuffed me, put me in his car, drove me back to the crime scene and had the witness make sure it wasn't me. I'm a fat, short white guy, btw.

Stopping people who fit the description of somebody who just committed a crime is the system working. No wonder both sides are agitated. The cops get slammed if they do their job and if they don't. No matter what the cops do, certain citizens will say it either is too much or not enough.

Seriously, the only thing I get out of these conversations these days is nobody here should be taken seriously about anything serious.
Maybe that was a little unclear. If you're an individual and you don't buy bands from the government, unlicensed spectrum is for you. If you're a utility who does buy bands from the government, then spilling over into unlicensed spectrum to boost your capability seems kinda bullshit to me.

Sure, it gets quite complicated when you start talking about customer operated equipment that provides commercial service (xfinity is a good example) but perhaps the critical test would be "is the transmitting equipment fully managed and controlled by the individual?"
> I still don't grasp how to build a billion dollar business on entirely open source software

Get you software installed on every machine in every DoD HPC facility, and probably a lot of DoE too.
FFS, just hand the product over to the community. Or have someone manage the project (security/features/quality) and accept patches from the community. Or use ANY of the revenue to hire someone outside the aqui-hire part-time to work on it.

It's such a shitty, disrespectful, dangerous pattern to buy and shutdown products. The community knows it and bemoans it every time. Blogs have been set up just to highlight how shitty it is. Countless words written about how shitty it is. This isn't like giving away free cookies and then stopping, it's like standing someone up on a date.

"—and we’re sorry. It’s not easy to say goodbye to products we all love..." but it's just business move, and business only leverages emotions and feelings when it's profitable for us.
Doesn't it just make the founders and investors successful, but not the company? Just look at Carousel and Mailbox today... ;)
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"The economics of saving lives" are usually pretty shoddy, frankly. Factor isolation is a nightmare, and as you point out, other goods may well counterbalance "bads."
I think this is mixing up the timelines. He was threatened by LE to life imprisonment for the things he did before he allegedly procured murder. So that can't rule out the "harmless activity" part, because it hadn't happened yet.

As for not preferring a system where one person can decide you dead at any time, well: http://www.killedbypolice.net/
If you are a cult-of-pg founder with "money money money startups exist to make me rich rich rich!" mindset, sure, it's a personal success.

But it's a blatant, raw, undeniable failure when a company lets itself get acquired no matter how much money changes hands.

(this is one of the topics that induce harsh West Coast Cognitive Dissonance because it goes against what the billionaire priests of finance tell you to believe about your life)
I don't get that at all. I got the "how presumptuous of Europeans to think that they brought civilization to the area, it was already there and if anything they may have set back the pace of progress."
In this case that you seem to support the skepticism is based on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance#Argume...

"If P were true then I would know it; in fact I do not know it; therefore P cannot be true."

For example, it's not that Einstein in 1905 made Newton's formulas from around 1700 unusable, quite the opposite, for a lot of purposes they are still used: it's just that for the very high speeds they need adjustment factors and more complicated math to express what's going on. The expected improvement in the science certainly won't make "everything we know wrong." Such formulations are just spammy titles. There will be only refinements.

For the current state, see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693784
Except God isn't 97% certain to exist
I've read two of Nick Lane's books: he is a fantastic writer, and writes about hard-core biology that will set your brain on fire.
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The cult of genius?
Nope, Disk - That 256MB was spinning platters. At the time you would kill for 256MB of RAM, I guess ;)
From this post, it seems like the only coupon code referenced is 'Murica'. If it was Lyft doing this, they would probably have different codes for each bot, seems more likely that it is an affiliate.

It's like the old adage, "Whoever gets the commission is on a bot creating mission"
Conversely, the list of most saved stories seems more useful than most upvoted.
The Prize is my second favorite book of history/non-fiction ever. My favorite is "The Power Broker" which has a similar sort of style and scale. Highly recommended.
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> It was a small simple product.

Dropbox itself is just a folder that syncs. Small and simple, right?

Carousel is just a camera roll that syncs. Small and simple, right?

There is an amazing amount of engineering and planning that goes into both products though.
A quilted blazer (his words) is not at all a form of a puffy coat?
My comparison has always been to Aplets and Cotlets.
It's easy to feel outraged, but you'd be just playing Trump's game. Does he believe there is a chance that the US will actually ban Muslims from entering the country? Or even that it would be a good thing if it did? No, he just wants to say outrageous things and get people talking about him. The reasonable person's response is to simply ignore him, much like you would a toddler throwing a tantrum.

Scott Adams has a great post on the Trump tactics, highly recommended http://blog.dilbert.com/post/126589300371/clown-genius.
Very interesting point about the difficulty police have in being a "friendly, neutral presence". Is it possible to replicate the "street pastors'" success through police presence, or does the uniform elicit a response that antagonizes potential troublemakers?
We are an open source company that's profitable, and proud of it. We want to create an open source ecosystem like Wordpress but not capture all the value created around it.

http://Qbix.com
If you look up actual measurements of 2.4GHz vs 5GHz penetration through common household materials, it's clear that it makes far less difference than the conventional wisdom seems to indicate. I think a lot of it comes down to two major factors: pre-802.11ac devices being designed to prioritize 2.4GHz antenna performance over 5GHz, and people having their networks arranged to account for where the dead spots are on the 2.4GHz band and acting as though they should be in the same places for the 5GHz band.
I also don't see the interest, but with a decent editor this shouldn't be a problem. For the little Python I write, Vim takes care of formatting the code.
It's an interesting point, although I think it's worth distinguishing 4 kinds of prejudice: pro- and anti- male and female.

I'm interested in decreasing total prejudice, and also decreasing the substantial imbalance in net prejudice benefit between groups. I don't think prejudice can be eliminated; System 1 thinking is too practically useful.

I think the reason people react negatively to dudes bringing up a possible increase in anti-male prejudice is that that it's usually brought up as an interruption to discussion of anti-female prejudice. That is, it's not used as a serious participation in a broad discussion of prejudice and how to reduce it, but a way of derailing discussion. And as I said, people are inclined to treat a reduction in pro-them prejudice as an increase in anti-them prejudice. So even sincere attempts can come across as ignorant.

Personally, I suspect anti-male prejudice is actually decreasing as we unwind patriarchy. I think it can be more visible, though, as a) women are more willing to be open about anti-male prejudices they have, and b) as we see women moving toward equality, we reexamine our own position. But I'm personally ok even if it's a temporary increase, as I see it as a backlash against the status quo. Honestly, given the number of women I know who have been sexually assaulted or physically abused, I'm amazed there isn't more anti-male prejudice. As we reduce the number of people who have those experiences, I expect we'll see dramatic drops in anti-male prejudice.
He literally called it a quilted blazer right in the article.
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That must be a joke?
I use the Borodin (original members) version because they're the ones I know best. I'm sure alternative versions, or the Beethoven or Bartok string quartets, would also do the job, possibly better.

One strike against this set is that most or possibly all of the CDs have been produced from LPs. Having bought the vinyl versions (twice!) many decades ago, this is good for me but not so good for you.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shostakovich-String-Quartets-1-13-D/...

One thing about newer recordings is that they may well be closer-miked and not have such a "natural" sound stage.
"The only people who are questioning the science are the ones who don't have the necessary knowledge to evaluate the claims scientifically and who have an economic stake in continuing fossil fuel usage."

Wrong!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_th...

Where as, Warmists have Arnold, Gore, Pope Francis, Hollywood celebs and lying pols, &c ... all eminent scientists in their own right ... NOT! And let's not forget the infamous head of the IPCC who was also NOT a climate scientist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K._Pachauri

"No climate scientists oppose it. I have not seen a single, reliable and useful model which goes against the fundamentals of climate change. There are no alternative hypothesis that explain the climate phenomena we're experiencing now."

That straw man is so obvious, I expect to see Dorthy, Tin man and the Cowardly Lion joining in anytime soon. There are no reliable or useful models which correctly defines fundamentals of climate change, period.

And speaking of Dorthy, how about NOAA jiggering the satellite data (the most accurate climate date source) to erase the 18-20 global warming cessation period:
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/noaa-massivel...

I could go on and provide many more links bogus claims being refuted but with Warmists, it's just a waste of digital pixels.
> It blows my mind that people judge scientific work based on its funding source over its content and merits.

Given limited time and flawed or incomplete domain expertise, I think "follow the money" is an excellent heuristic shortcut.
But we don't know that the endgame is extinction of the race. We don't even know when various benchmarks will occur ( say, sea level at x% higher ) .

The physics of a Venus aren't on the table - SFAIK, all the carbon we're digging up and burning was once animal or vegetable matter, derived from a Carboniferous era level of atmospheric CO2.
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Wow, I mentioned Aplets and Cotlets on another thread. I didn't realize that they actually are Turkish Delight (that is, based on a recipe for lokum). They are delicious!

As a kid I envisioned it as kind of a sticky, tender, caramel-y confection, like a nutty blond fudge. But from now on I'll think of it as Aplets and Cotlets.
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What about "puzzle"? The negative is that it implies a single solution, but other than that it describes what's going on pretty well.
> You can't book an appointment with most of these directly, and not all of them can write prescriptions legally.

So I think that varies from state to state.

[Anecdote warning] When I was in grad school, at least, I was able to directly book appointments at the student health center with PAs, MDs and DOs (perhaps a university-run health center is different, somehow?). I also don't recall ever facing difficulty having a prescription written.

My understanding is that a PAs can't open their own practice, but that several PAs can function more or less independently under the supervision of one MD/DO principal.
> But it's a blatant, raw, undeniable failure when a company lets itself get acquired no matter how much money changes hands.

You mean that when Intel acquired Altera that was a failure, and when Microsoft acquired Mojang that was a failure too? And Google with Android and so on. All 'blatant, raw, undeniable failures' according to you.
While "raw" progress is always fun, there's so much untapped potential in software that I'm not sure how much it matters. You stick one, two, three or a hundred ARM chips in a computer and, currently, it wouldn't really matter. The limits today are things like ecosystem, development process, robustness etc. at least for personal computer applications.
I think variational autoencoders (which explicitly model the compression step and the decompression step) seem like the more classical way to do it.
I'm guessing that a similar situation exists with
doctors; physicals, vaccines, and a handful of common
diseases (like colds) probably make up a sizable
percentage of visits. There's a market for someone who
can just handle these cases and pass them off to the
higher grade doctor when the need arises.

Those are called GPs up in Canada. They do more than just deal with colds, but the system is set up so you first go through a GP and then are referred up.
It can go either way. But an acquisition can be a success. For instance Android.
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> It's quite normal to deny something the entire scientific community is saying.

By other scientists when doing science sure, that's cool; by the ignorant public when working on policy, that's just ignorance.

> Most of our current scientific knowledge was originally someone disagreeing with the majority.

No, if you are not a scientist in the field, your disagreements are just ignorance. Science can and should be challenged by those actually doing the science, not arguments from ignorance from the general public.
And though prices are continually falling for tech goods, people do not refrain from buying (as the myth says they will).

You know the iPhone you buy today will be much less next year, but you still buy because it serves a purpose for you now.

They only type of spending perpetually lower prices would probably decrease is speculative buying. If you don't need a particular good now, you may wait knowing the price will fall. But this is also a good thing.
The Qt Company too.
Lots of very partisan folks here. My mother is an avid believer that climate change is a hoax and we don't need to take care of the planet. She says 'Mother earth knows how to take care of herself', but she deeply respects Arnold as a businessman, politician, and self-made man.

This is the type of thing that can reach her and change people in her boat's way of thinking. Way to go Arnold.
In tech space, even 9 years can produce 1000x results. I love this microSD storage example, 2005 vs 2014: http://i.imgur.com/1jyVev4.jpg
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While it's probably in the millions, all projected numbers are extremely rough and work by calculating the percentage likely to have die died in the disease that swept the continent. DO NOT VIEW THEM AS PRECISE OR ACCURATE.

However, the evidence seems pretty convincing that the vast majority of the indigenous people died in the centuries following spanish contact.
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Goodreads rating system is useless anyway. It's 'out of five' which means most people will give a good book a 4 or a 5 star - it's not like IMDb's more nuanced 'out of ten' rating.

They also display a bespoke meaning for the stars (i.e. 3 doesn't mean average), so for those that follow that meaning, their ratings will be different.
Other factors don't contribute much. It's real, it's human made and dangerous:

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wor...

The state of CO2: now around 400 ppm, 20 years ago was 350 ppm, and that was already more than during the last 800 thousand years, and now it's increasing unbelievably faster:

http://assets.climatecentral.org/images/uploads/news/11_19_1...

(based on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/ice_core_co2.html )

http://assets.climatecentral.org/images/uploads/news/11_19_1...
"I don't understand this obsession with offline support for collaborative realtime apps."

You're already offline. Conflicts can always happen. Your 3G disconnects frequently. If you want a robust app, and especially if your target audience is often on the road, why wouldn't you be "obsessed" with offline sync for collaboration? And if you really need user-guided conflict resolution, you can just make that.
> If you let that culture fail you’ll end up like a post-2010 PayPal, a Pandora, a LinkedIn, a Dell, a GM, a 2000’s era Microsoft.

Having LinkedIn in this list seems a bit unfair. Yes I'm sure they have a lot of non-engineer employees (they're making money and need salespeople, how dare they!) but something like Kafka doesn't come out of a company with no engineering culture.
(Most) Books contain relatively little violence, sex, and especially sexualized violence in comparison to TV and movies. When study after study has shown that what you consume affects how you think, I find this a huge point in favor of books. The amount that people are (and the amount that i have been) desensitized to violence today is insane.

I would say they also leave more room for plot development and concise endings. Most shows today drag on for season after season and don't have satisfying culminations. I've also seen very few movies that can make me think like a work of fiction can. Seeing the world through another relatable person's eyes can be a very profound experience.

Ignoring fiction or non fiction is a tragedy in my opinion.
Yes - and the adult that claim her childhood self wanted decadently dark chocolate for the endorphin rush? Unlikely.
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> Similarly Wind turbines, while practical, are not mass efficient.

Those are big words to use without having seen a specific design. Terrestrial wind turbines likely have as much in common with turbines destined for Mars as the Mars rovers have to do with our cars. Sure they both have wheels but that's roughly where the similarities end.
Kind of proud that this man signed my diploma.
I believe the drought predated contact by ~7-800 years. Definitely explains the decline of the Mayans, but not really relevant to discussing the effects of Columbian contact.
I still have memories of burning out two VIC-20s by POKE-ing where I shouldn't. (I was five; the memory map wouldn't mean much to me until much later.)
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did you not look at the picture?

That's a bio pic, not surveillance.

He writes in his own words that he was wearing a quilted blazer.
Don't let anyone fool you, at six tons the 405 is almost 25 times more computer per dollar than the Raspberry Pi. Now that's value!
The "regressive" part of the tax can be mitigated just by rebating some (most?) of the money back to the people who would be most impacted. The rest can be used for R&D into clean energy, power grid improvements, etc.

The bigger issue is making sure the tax is applied consistently everywhere, otherwise we just move polluting industries to countries with lax enforcement and put countries that are enforcing the tax at a disadvantage.
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Scientists should always continue to question everything when doing science; the general public however is not in a position to do this and they should follow the consensus of scientists when setting public policy. You can't wait forever when making policy, so you go with the current best knowledge.
Developers need to be bringing the culture of open source to their places of work. That means asking management for monthly budget they can use to make donations to open source projects (preferably to the projects they use in the company). If the most successful open source projects are not receiving donations from the companies that use them it's our own failing.

And if management refuses to allocate a budget for donating back to open source projects (either in developer time or in money) then developers should tell their coworkers that the company they work for is not an open-source friendly company. They're not doing their part to give back to the community of developers who are working so hard in their spare time to make what they do possible. I think the last thing companies want is to build a wall between management and their developer teams like that.
It isn't about product success, it's about company success. Even for one-trick-monkey companies like Android (see how their prior sale to Microsoft went... smashing success)—selling a company is the literal death of the company and the absence of success outside of private financial engineering.
Yes? "Failure" is a little harsh, but reasonably accurate. Even the companies that sell out "to ensure we have the resources to develop all our visionary synergies" have better ways to raise money.
In Rhino you can just select a bunch of curves (lines) and type Length<Return>. Since I construct a lot of wireframes I sometimes do a SelectAll<Return>Length<Return> just to see how many feet/miles of lines I've drawn. I thought it was a fun novelty to do that at the end of a project– partly because I don't know how if it would be so easy in other software.
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Debate them rationally, and you'll start to change more views.

I don't have the link handy, but not too long ago there was an interesting article about that posted to HN. Using reason doesn't actually work well with most people, most of the time.

People get emotionally attached to certain ideologies. It becomes part of their core identity, much like sports team affiliation.

It is often more effective to find emotional arguments instead. Show them pictures of smog in Bejing, for example. Or how the Marshal Islands are sinking under the ocean (well, the sea level is rising).
This is one of the reasons I just accept the flaws with iCloud Photos and go with it. My other family members can use it easily enough and I don't have to worry about it going away.
An article on HN recently argued that we DO in fact have deflation on healthcare. Treatments from 1970 are probably a lot cheaper today but in anycase I would rather get an expensive MRI from a lab with a recent model MRI Scanner rather than a cheap scan from an old CT Scanner.

If you could choose between 1970s treatments at 1970s-equivalent prices or 2015 treatments at 2015 prices, which would you choose? I would definitely choose modern treatment every time.

As for inflation, as long as demand outstrips supply (even just because of population growth), we should expect some inflation. The problem is that when deflation occurs it generally means underlying economic issues.