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Network file systems are hard. There are 30+ years of posts in various places of the Internet, hundreds of books, and dozens of implementations' source listings that you can read.

Dropbox have exceptional engineering talent, and a mature code base. Nobody else before or since, has ever come even close to what they have, quality- or feature-wise.

That they make it look easy doesn't mean that it is easy. It's like saying, all this guy ever does is hitting the puck in the net skating backwards, I don't understand why nobody else is able to do it?
Wasn't Sunrise renamed Outlook on iOS? I have Outlook on my iPhone and it looks the same as the screenshot in the below discontinuation announcement...
>Iran's funding of Hezbollah can be legitimately seen as defending their own interests.

Which part of assassinating Lebanese politicians, kidnapping and torturing soldiers, starting a war with a nuclear-armed state, and randomly firing unguided rockets into civilian towns can be legitimately seen as defending Iran's own interests?
"Microsoft will...return to what they do best: making money by creating software."

Isn't that the crux of the problem, though? As software has become commoditized it's very difficult to make money by creating software. Now it's all about service - and even then it's difficult to get people to pay to use a software-only service; especially when there are (usually) free alternatives.

I don't envy the position Microsoft is in. They need to pivot and it's not at all clear where they can pivot to and still maintain their substantial income stream.
Leaving aside the fact that his summary was entirely at odds with the facts in the article (which he later mentioned) - yes, this topic does get my blood boiling.

I think that compulsory taxation is as wrong in principle as slavery, and that socialism and the welfare state risk destroying society in the long run. They certainly have destroyed subsets of society already.

It really surprises and dismays me to find so much support for such a socialist idea on HN, too, which is usually relatively supportive of capitalism. My inner cynic wonders if it's because people would like to cash in on such an idea on the way to Ramen profitability.
I use it with El Capitan. Still works fine.
For professions to be viable, there has to be a large dip between people starting out and people who had mastered it already. Otherwise there is no real incentive for people to start out in the first place; noone will pay a lot of money and invest years of their time if anyone with a few weeks of education can do essentially 99% of what they can.

This brings me to the point of software development. Software development is aweful as a choice of a profession if you work for someone else, and not for yourself, due to constantly increasing competition (every kid needs to learn how to code). Most work doesn't need a real understanding of the subject matter (algorithms, protocols) and can be performed using frameworks and libraries that "encapsulate" those concepts. I foresee something alike the split of nurses and nurseaides happening to software developers. There'll be a few software developers capable of understanding computing from A to Z who will write the libraries and the tools, and everybody else will be a consumer of these tools writing apps for the end users.

The only real rewarding part of software development is being able to design your own product and bring it to life, and reap whatever rewards the market allows you.
No flame-bait here, but if you are seriously looking for that, how about Ada?

Realistically, I don't see C++ going away for a looong time (if ever), simply because of the huge amounts of code written in it. But if one were looking for an alternative that matches C++ both in performance and control over memory layout, Ada is where I would start. It has generics, you can do OOP, it avoids many of the syntactic pitfalls of C++... As a bonus, the language standard and the rationale are available for free.
Nope. 99% of them won't be allowed.

* with extreme exceptions there are some just so they can claim they meet federal guidelines

Now you might be able to trick activate an LTE sim for verizon on a verizon phone and then get it to work on your phone but technically verizon doesn't allow it

One day there is going to be a really large lawsuit about this, specifically because it violates the spirit of LTE licensing if not the actual letter of the law.

What the do to prevent their phones being taken to other carriers is even more devious. To get around LTE portability requirements, they simply disable specific LTE bands like the ones for T-Mobile, etc. So yeah you can put a T-Mobile sim in there but the phone won't get any signal.
Let Pa be the probability that some piece of your open-sourced codebase reveals an important technique or strategy to your competitor, thus leveling a technological advantage you have,

Let Ca be the cost of that lost advantage,

Let Cb be the value of good will from the open source community

In what case is Cb bigger than (Pa * Ca)?
T-Mobile is not violating NN with video streaming - they have a program where they'll essentially host your stuff (i.e., the Netflix suggestion to Comcast during their spat)... it's not discriminatory, in fact on the press meeting, someone asked if porn sites would be included and the answer was favorable.

I'm not sure about their zero-rating of audio streaming.
I've read that the radical Muslim attacks were sponsored by Russia. In the absence of the Big Picture it's hard to understand Political Science and who are the main Actors on the spheres of influence.

All that Russia wanted was to divide their enemy.
New propaganda but the trick is old.

#TerroristRussia
Did you miss the part that said "[SYNTAX IS OPTIONAL !] Exact operator choice is up to You" ?

Why criticize the author about a point they went out of their way to tell you was just a stand in for whatever syntax thought made a better choice?
The problem I see is that these jobs already exist (e.g. paralegals, nurse practitioners, dental hygienists), but are baked into the total practice. My primary care physician costs the same whether I see him or the nurse practitioner, and they are performing the same tasks, so why am I wasting my doctor's time for rudimentary work and simultaneously paying much more for an NP when I don't need to?
This is really disappointing. I have been an avid Mailbox user since beta. Does anyone have any other mail client recommendations for iOS?
It supports the same email types that Sunrise did.

Disclaimer: MS employee, nothing to do with Outlook though.
Yahoo mail is the most popular email provider in the United States by a wide but declining margin.
A Mandatory read and interesting discussion to follow every time the subject of "basic income" is brought up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10522880
No different than the Starbucks coffee many of us have in our hands as we read your comment: terribly killing small coffee producers in Third World countries does seem to pay off.
If you have a soda fountain, you can buy a 5 gallon pod of Coke syrup for $81 which will make you 320 12-oz drinks: http://www.samsclub.com/sams/coca-cola-5-gallon-bag-in-box-f...
> This compresses the typical frequency range for phone calls to 300-3000Hz, which is a lot smaller than the real range of human hearing, although it covers the range used by human speech so it was considered totally acceptable before unreliable wireless packeting became the typical last leg.

But... landline telephones have always mangled human speech. They're awful.
I agree, but I think "incorrect" is the wrong term, "suboptimal for the problem" would be a better way to phrase it.
Most of the comparable sites are penalized * on HN, but Nautilus isn't because we had the impression that their articles were of higher quality. Wrong?

* This penalty doesn't prevent stories from making the front page, it just requires more votes to do it, or a moderator to waive the penalty. It's the solution we came up with for media websites that put out reams of fluff but also the occasional solid story.
Without joining the rush to judgement, allow me to say that I find this to be a legitimate inquiry, especially given the nature of your appeal in this thread. Care to respond?
Very interesting. Would be a truly great milestone in history to have an algorithm that can beat humans at Go. Far more impressive than chess, IMO.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690754
They first tried to enslave them, but finished killing most of them as they obviously fought against it. Europeans behaving just like what we expect from white supremacists.
I suspect it's a licensing thing. The Soda Stream lets you make a liter of soda for about the price of a generic soda (when you factor in CO2 + syrup)

As for the size of the pod, a cap of syrup smaller than one 12 oz drink's pod can make that same liter (though the Kold doesn't have a CO2 cartridge, so I'm sure the tech transfers the fizziness to the pod somehow)
First time I read it I interpreted it as a pun! (What color may an alert in a red country be?!)

On a more serious note, I'm sorry to know that there are people forced to live day by day in a high pollution environment though. I hope that the period of health tribute being paid in the name of industrial development won't last too long!
I'm quite happy with Spark, been using it the last few months. I got tired of Gmail's webapp app.
The single best software product since GMail, and they've shuttered it. It's a sad day for our industry.
I'm genuinely curious as to what it is that Gmail (for example) doesn't provide yet that is so essential to dealing with emails. I gave a try to Mailbox but didn't see what the added value was, other than a couple UX gimmicks (some of which are now part of many email clients).

Was there a killer feature that I missed?
A language, and especially a low level language, often jumps in front of your nice abstractions and obstructs them with all the unworthy low level details and its exposed bare guts.

Techniques for eliminating this leaky abstraction are important indeed.
Culture and jihad, grimly connected through the art market's “blood antiquities”
I'm trying to build an email platform too, yes it's hard. But I thought it was only because I'm a beginner and 1 man team.

Some of the reasons why I think it's hard:

* I don't think security was a big deal to many of the mail applications when they were being built. I tried and gave up so many times trying to find a strong hashing algorithm that both dovecot and ruby supported. There was practically no documentation on this and it felt like I was venturing into territory never before seen.

* Parsing emails to be display correctly seems impossible. Sometimes emails have "<br>" in them and sometimes they have "\n". But what if the "\n" doesn't mean newline but it's just what someone wrote in the email? They come in a variety of mime types and formats. It sometimes seems impossible to do this.

* Not everyone uses the RFC standards! I thought the RFC said that a subject can only be 78 chars long. Yet I get emails all day long that go way beyond this which cause major problems in my code. AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE THAT CARES ABOUT RFCS?
She just asked silicon valley to become 10x more effective than ISIS? She sure gets SV slang.
My understanding is, just bad news: not only the LTE-U as it is now interferes with WiFi, it would also cause any phone connected to the WiFi to drain the battery faster, according to the papers.

It surely should not be allowed until it's significantly improved.
One place to look for an answer is kids who live at home. They also have unconditional support from the family in terms of rent and food. But plenty of them are happy to flip burgers for some extra cash. There are of course many different situations they find themselves in, and it would be interesting to see how closely they decide things compared to adults on an unconditional grant.
Interestingly, if you see a nurse practitioner in-office while a physician is not present in the office (I don't think they need to stop in), insurance companies (maybe only Medicare, can't remember) only have to pay 85% of the bill charged by the doctor's office.
The Freshman's Dream Design Pattern
What the hell are you talking about? Harris doesn't advocate for genocide in End of Faith. That's insane.
Why should they? I like my work even though I don't like working. I think it's depressing to think that a technologically utopian humanity would insist on work as a requirement to live.

From a public policy standpoint, paying people to essentially stay at home and be passive consumers can be quite beneficial. They aren't supporting themselves through crime and they're placated to the degree that they won't want to protest the establishment. And if they want anything more out of life than the basics, they'll have to work for it. Living on welfare alone (even if it's nationally guaranteed) doesn't sound like attractive mate material to me.

Exception: could result in poorly handled out of wedlock births. Possible mitigation by increasing benefits to incentivize birth control?
The jokefulness or throwaway-ity of the account doesn't really have anything to do with whether it's a perfectly decent change.
Others suggested this too! Wouldn't do this without permission, so assuming that we launched today and first orders will start shipping Wednesday - maybe by next week we can have some designs featured!
If you are running on Heroku or Google App Engine, you don't have a server as well. AWS Lambda abstracts the concept of a server even more, but yeah...

I also think the costs are pretty high. Of course I have no idea how much traffic and requests where calculated, so I am just guessing. As cloudfront and S3 do the heavy lifting, a cheap server or two for actual editing of the content should be enough. And they don't need to scale on the same level as there won't be that much changing for customers, so paying more than 10,000$ for that with 100.000 customers seems pretty high.

But I get what the idea behind it was, and it seems to work pretty good. Also nice to have really low costs in the beginning :)
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My family and I had planned to move to France in the next few years, partly in order to educate our daughter in French. Given the state's behaviour, we will be reconsidering that move. Where are the liberte, egalite and fraternite in these proposals? We can observe the exact opposite of all of these ideals: France has become a total hypocrisy.
So essentially Hitler considered himself to be/pretended in his speeches to be a socialist, although not a Marxist socialist, but one who rejects big banking (read: DEM JEWS!1!).

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism:

>Socialism is a social and economic system characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production

Given that the Nazis privatized a lot of publicly owned companies such as the Deutsche Bank and the Deutsche Reichsbahn, I don't think the Nazis were socialists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany has more on Hitler's economic views.
>VCs are totally the problem here. It's not that VCs are bad people who want to screw over users, but their business model requires them to get payback on their bets, even if it's small.

Doesn't that make them bad though? I mean it's like saying "It's not that the mafia are bad people who want to screw over people, but their business model requires them to blackmail and occasionally kill" (not comparing levels of "badness" of course, merely showing the problem in said reasoning).

It's not like following a particular "business model" is not a decision people get to make. And if people take the VC model that favours acquihires, then they very much have decided to do stuff that screws with users.
Mariott had $214 million net income in 2014. Keurig had $500 million.

EDIT: Mariott actually had 753m net income in 2014.
>> The only solution to exploitation is to make "do nothing" a viable alternative.

Yes. I've been leaning toward that idea. Retired people need to be able to do nothing, and why not most people? If you want to live in a small house and grow your own food, why should that be prevented? Property taxes need to be zero for people, and cost of living needs to be as close to zero as possible. Then you don't need higher wages or welfare for people to get by. Instead we give tax breaks to companies and tax the heck out of people. Then wonder how to support those who can't work, or don't have in-demand skills. Speaking of skills, how about low cost education instead of government backed free for all in tuition costs?
Are We Seeing the End of Paid Stock Photos?
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Message searching for Gmail in Outlook iOS/Android is piped directly from Gmail itself. Your search is forwarded on to them and results are displayed back in the app. Immediate search results are from on-device and then filled with the Gmail results after they are received. So if the results are bad, then maybe Gmail has a secret API they use to make their app better.
That's true. So why do we feel the need to coerce people into paying into such systems? The more I investigate it the more I think it's because of the power such systems grant the coercers. Consider the uproar over Zuckerberg having the temerity to spend his money on charity in the way he pleases, instead of the State getting to choose.
Marc Benioff says unicorn startups manipulated private markets
You missed my point in your eagerness to put out the Marxist version of Roman history. The reasons why the basic income was instituted in Rome are indeed fascinating, but not the point here.

The point is: once a basic income was instituted -- for whatever reasons -- the vast majority of the populace ceased to care about ALL other factors in politics. Thenceforth, they only cared about who would increase the basic income.

This is a very dangerous situation for any society to be in.

Incidentally, the world today is in a very analogous situation. Whereas in Rome the work formerly done by the poor was taken by unpaid slaves, today the work formerly done by the poor is taken by unpaid machines -- just like slaves in most respects, except without the annoying moral quandary attached.
Bah. You can see it is ingrained in me.

I meant instead "I call myself ______ ", which is common in Spanish, for example, and other languages.
To say you "lose nothing" seems a strange way to describe an option you have to pay for and which has no value without clearing the contract cost.
It'll be interesting if people can choose jobs freely and wages are purely determined by supply and demand, then those jobs people love to do tend to pay lower, while menial jobs people don't want to do tend to pay higher.
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> I foresee something alike the split of nurses and nurseaides happening to software developers. There'll be a few software developers capable of understanding computing from A to Z who will write the libraries and the tools, and everybody else will be a consumer of these tools writing apps for the end users.

I think that's already happened to some extent, as the proliferation of coding boot camps demonstrates.

On the other hand, a lot of the tools currently in use require a great deal of programming knowledge from users, e.g. Hadoop.
These are list of must read books next year- How i wish i was aware of this books before now, i would have digest all by now. Not late , will still read them
Which part you didn't like ? Have you installed and tried the app ? Any suggestions as to how I can improve the landing page or the app UI ?
17th Century language geeks thought that English should be more like Latin, so they banned split infinitives.

21st Century language geeks think that English should be more like Klingon, so they ban the verb "to be".
Statism, gentlemen. This is what happens.
This touches on Taylorism ("scientific management"), one of the more horrible things that has happened to human society. Fredrick Winslow Taylor was the favorite industrial theorist of both the Harvard Business School and Josef Stalin, which should set off all alarms right there.

In Taylorism, "skills" are replaced with "processes". Employees are taught to do small, simple, repeatable, and thoroughly documented processes, without understanding of how the whole system works. This covers huge swaths of manual labor today - both factory labor and service jobs like fast food tend to be heavily Taylorized.

The value of Taylorism isn't that it's more efficient than relying on skilled workers. It's less efficient, and unashamedly so. But it has the side effect of disempowering the worker. Employees are now replaceable cogs, to be fired on a whim and replaced by the next warm body who can be taught the steps (and punished even for improving on them). Taylorism shifts the balance of power between employer and employee strongly in the employer's favor.

The only "safe" jobs in a Taylorized society are those that demand skills immune to Taylorizing, like engineering (and that's mostly because any job I do that can be replaced with a dumb human process can also be replaced with a program).
> There'll be a few software developers capable of understanding computing from A to Z who will write the libraries and the tools, and everybody else will be a consumer of these tools writing apps for the end users.

The problem is that all the money is in the end-user facing applications. If you publish a research paper in some CS journal explaining a brilliant new algorithm, that is not worth very much (if anything). When somebody packages that up into a product that they can sell to users, or charge for the use of, then they've captured most of the value.
Compression largely, EVRC and GSM (CDMA and GSM respectively) are pretty heavily compressed, while I prefer the sound of EVRC, both are compressed - another thing to point out is most smartphones are pretty lousy telephones, bad earpieces, poor microphones, and so on. If you want to see how cellular handset can perform, use a good communications grade handset.
A stain on the history of human civilization.
A few men will become rich beyond imagination by a skillful appeal to base laziness and apathy. It's the renaissance of the disposable generation. Just toss the cup away. Toss the whole maker away when it breaks, too.

Make no attempt to contemplate where all of this trash ends up.

What's wrong with taking a few minutes to make the coffee and clean up after yourself? Did you know coffee grinds make a great nutritious supplement to household plants and gardens?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690002 and marked it off-topic.
POTS lines do not carry more audio bandwidth than a cell phone. All of them are 64kbit PCM uncompressed audio.
The Gmail app actually allows 3rd-party IMAP connections.
Netflix to Double Original Programing in 2016
Thanks for the correction!

Still, given where Microsoft is coming from and given Russinovich's position, this is significant.