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I agree with Schiller's functional breakdown. Based on my own experience: if I can, I just use my Note 4 phone. If that is insufficient I grab my iPad. If that is insufficient, I grab a laptop.

The older I get, and the more writing I do rather than software development, the more I gravitate to smaller devices. It amazes me how easy it is to edit and write manuscripts on small devices. Same as for doing research by web browsing, taking notes, etc.

For some people, they can skip device size levels. For example, some people might only need a phone, a phone + laptop, or perhaps just a tablet with 4g.

I think Apple is making the right decision spreading their product lines to more device types and sizes inside types.
Sure, as much logic as there is in defining everything to be a nail to make your hammer seem more useful.

When we worry about the economy, we're worried about a lot more than present consumption, or else we could just eat the seed corn and call it a day.
I agree, many times people just say "FTP" when they are using sFTP
There is Fulfillment by Amazon:

http://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/benefits.ht...
Hannah Arendt on Time, Space, and Where Our Thinking Ego Resides
If Swift runs on Linux, and Android is Linux, won't Android have the most apps?
Theoretically, could Android run "all the apps" natively if they add support for Swift? Conversely, if Apple forked Android, could they do the same thing in reverse? I'm not taking sides, just curious what the experts think.
I think you made a pretty big mistake making the charity a built-in component of your company. The better move would have been to make a for-profit and then to donate to charity from your take-home or an exit somewhere down the line (assuming the product is solid). Making the whole thing non-profit makes it a lot harder to get funded, since you're effectively telling any supplier of capital that they won't be seeing any returns and this is a very high hurdle to overcome if your core mission is not directly related to the charity (see for instance Watsi for an alternative on this).

So, if you want to rescue your project and assuming there really is a market (which I can not see from where I'm sitting, I know nothing about your chosen field) I'd suggest transforming the business into a for-profit if a solid business case can be made and funding can be secures. And if you can't secure funding then it looks as if this is the end of the line.

Best of luck with all this, and hats off to you for trying this to begin with!
Filezilla all day for Windows. It has every feature I want and need. I've been using it for prob 10+ years now almost every day, recently started poking around in the preferences and found some really cool features.
I thought this was common knowledge. (But I admit I don't understand the OP's rationale.)

How Job Destroyers and Coffee Drinkers Rule The World

L2 Inc., May 14, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D62IX-Vd9g

"Another big loser: the American worker. While tech companies try to maintain their status as job creators, the facts show another story. For example, it takes six people at Facebook, eight people at Google, and 60 to 70 people at an ad agency like Publicis to generate $10 million in revenue."
It stands to reason that the brain structures we have without deliberate practice are not some reflection of our social context, but a neutral state of the human brain, what with your aptly demonstrating the phenomenon being discussed even in light of professing awareness of an alleged "hierarchical society based on relations of dominance".
This makes perfect sense. There's a huge evolutionary advantage in calling attention to a bad actor (someone behaving in a way not advantageous to the tribe), because that person will either change, or be expelled from the group, or downvoted until their comment disappears, which helps the group.
> thereby accepting the risk of us or our loved ones getting blown up or shot going while we go about our daily routine

A risk which is orders of magnitude smaller than the risk that you or your loved one will perish in your car. Smaller even than the risk you'll choke on your next meal, or harm yourself putting your pants on tomorrow.

> the choice is between doing nothing

It really isn't. The alternative to bombing isn't doing nothing. The alternative is politics, dirty, compromising international politics. Which, because it involves prime trading partners and sacred cow industries (like arms and energy), that's less palatable than dropping bombs to most politicians, unfortunately.

And it is very very dubious that international bombing campaigns will even 'do' anything positive for our security. I doubt anyone knows, but let's not blindly assume that 'doing something' by dropping bombs is necessarily equivalent to 'doing something constructive.'
venture firm - if you told me you wanted to learn how to program or design, I'd say startup but def sounds like this meets your needs. I notice you are at KAIST assuming you are Korean so definitely the Korean aspect will somewhat match culture wise, hopefully.
Are Confident People More Productive?
So an economy based on consumption is not sustainable?
Humans evolved meeting their survival needs collectively (in hunter-gatherer times). Language development aided this cooperative mode of production. So too would criticism and praise.

I've found reductionist social Darwinism lacks explanatory for these phenomena.
Who do you think created ISIS? It's US allies including funding, hardware. Cut them instead. You murder far too many civilians than terrorists with military response which in turn creates more terrorists.
> New s-expression based pcb format (.kicad_pcb)

Rock on KiCad
Perhaps unrelated, but are there any groups (deliberately non-specific) working to address this?
The biggest reason I use Firefox over Chrome is because of DownThemAll; an extension that would stop working when turn off XUL support. Trying to follow market trends is whats gonna kill Firefox.
(Slightly off-topic...)

Buying computers used to be awful, back when hard drives cost $1/MB, sound cards were a thing (Gravis UltraSound or SoundBlaster?), and Moore's Law was going full speed (even CD-ROM drives regularly became twice as fast). I spent months agonizing over when to pull the trigger and buy that Pentium 133. Nowadays almost any computer is fast enough to make you happy: buy an SSD, max out the RAM, and you'll be set for years. Unless you're doing high-end gaming or HPC, performance mostly doesn't matter.

I'd argue that cameras are at that point now, too. Even a high-end smartphone takes pretty good pictures, and the compact system cameras are well into the realm of diminishing returns unless you're making your living off of wall-sized prints. Seriously, just flip a coin whether you want to go APS-C or micro 4/3 (lenses still matter), and buy whatever's on sale.
Burke's an interesting case. Although revered by many contemporary American conservatives, he was a member of Britain's more left-wing political party, the Whigs (the counterpart to the more right-wing Tories).

Like most Whigs, Burke was a supporter of the American Revolution, but he was horrified by the excesses of its French sequel. He famously wrote his major work on the subject, Reflections on the Revolution in France, as a letter to French aristocrat Charles-Jean-François Depont, and later expanded it into a short book. In the Reflections, Burke predicted—over three years before the Reign of Terror—that the French Revolution would lead to disaster. Moreover, he specifically cited among the causes its abstract foundations disconnected from the reality of human nature.

La Terreur proved Burke right, of course, and yet the French Revolutionary principles—among them liberté, égalité, and fraternité—are for the most part as fresh as a daisy. Perhaps in the 21st century we could add diversité and inclusivité to the mix, but the basic lesson is clear: the Revolution hasn't ended. Burke's Reflections is thus more than a historical curiosity—it's also an urgent warning for the present.
This article is full of a lot of crap. There is a good parallel to be made between Apple and Tesla, but this article spends a lot of time babbling about nonsense (whining about overpriced bottled tap water when that's found at every single grocery store on earth in 2015?)

As far as Tesla trying to make a cool brand; every brand tries to do that. That's not what makes Tesla like Apple.

What makes Tesla like Apple is that it is willing to compromise in ways that most of their competitors aren't; they are willing to have higher price tags, deliver products late and risk a lot of money by investing in something that could fail. Apple exmpales; the iPhone, the Apple Watch. Tesla examples; the Supercharger network and the Gigafactoy. They are not willing to compromise on quality. They may fuck up and make a quality mistake (inevitably they do), but they will not deliberately compromise on quality the way competitors will in order to meet a target price point.
Making sense is not enough to be scientific. You can make up a plausible evolutionary cause for virtually any behavior. It's almost impossible to test those hypotheses. It's exasperating to even try to hold a conversation when the opening is something as reductionist and anti-scientific as the grandparent post.
> The stated goal of Islamic State is to establish a caliphate across the world.

With a bit of our help they might just achieve that. Are you aware that IS is trying to establish itself in Pakistan?

> The stated values and de facto policy of Islamic State is in opposition to Western values such as freedom of speech, press, religion, and association.

Yes, and why does this bother you?

The same goes for many other countries and I don't see us bombing those.

> Who gives a fuck what Islamic State wants us to do?

Well, I do. If my opponent wants me to make a certain move to further his own goals then the worst thing I can do is to give in to the temptation to act against my own interests and in his interests. That's not 'intellectually bankrupt', that's seeing two moves ahead and deciding that the outcome of the most tempting option is actually a net-negative for our side.

> We need to do what is strategically sound.

Precisely.

> If that happens to be what IS wants, why should that matter one iota beyond the strategic calculus?

Because the strategic calculus should involve the long term result of our actions and not taking that element into account will make matters much worse. This is how we got into this mess in the first place. Lots of things that seemed to be good ideas at the time with a very limited strategic horizon in mind and no long term plan.
The main reason is that the server is more often than not NOT Javascript based.
Because bombing the shit outta them, won't fix it? Boots on the ground means a larger surge of extremists turning into combatants rushing into the place to make their apocalyptical dreams come true (that is the connection to 'what they want').

For America (or Europe) to rush in seems like the most intellectually bankrupt and strategically inept thing to do. A ground war has barely ever solved a problem in that region. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda (the last targets of our ground wars) are both alive and well and would be flourishing even more if it wasn't for ISIS sucking up new recruits.
apple got rich from this patent.
aka the phone with only a screen patent.
it expires in 2028.

if it is overturned before that they won't last that long.

downsizing is never pretty.
I played with the new app yesterday. It works fairly well, generating 3D from camera motion (you slowly pan the camera).

The resolution did not seem very good, but the effect is nice. Someone had a good idea.
Daily isn't the problem, it's the weekend excursions.
That probably is too much to ask for stories in fields where the community has a low density of specialists. Excessive claims about, say, computing are less likely to be entertained here, simply because HN has lots of users who know about computing.

We see the same thing with big news stories: often a sensational splash with tons of upvotes and comments is followed a few days later by a follow-up showing how the original story was wrong, but going largely un-noticed.

I don't think it's too much to ask, though, for substantive articles reporting debunkings and refutations to get their share of attention. We just emailed you a repost invite for the one on deep brain stimulation, and I hope you'll continue to post those as you find them. It is a valuable service to the community.

Btw, any time you (or anyone) know of a particularly good article that fell through the cracks, you should email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can send a repost invite or put it in the second-chance pool. Some of the most interesting and popular links that have appeared on HN recently have been rescued from oblivion this way, so there's evidence that it works. We'll probably eventually add a feature to HN for people to nominate stories for a second chance this way.
You don't need the drivers working for multiple systems, you just need the users to be using an aggregator that connects to multiple providers, like Kayak or Expedia do for flights.

Once the user is blindly choosing between providers based solely on price/ETA then the established companies have no advantage anymore and the margins will go to zero just like the airline industry.
Personally, I wouldn't have given them the answer for free. They could hire me for a day at some exorbitant consulting rate if they really wanted a brain dump.
"they will kill us because their ideology is fundamentally opposed to Western concepts..." This is perpetual lie by western media and politicians. Islam has not been more violent than Christianity until may be the last century. Why has that changed. It's because the west wants to impose its values on others. Let people choose and live their lives. If you meddle with them they will meddle with you. Isn't it common sense?
R is great for fitting models and so on as explained by others. Most R functions expect a 2d matrix or table-like input.

SQL is great for choosing which columns to get out of multiple tables, somehow combined, as well as to filter which rows. If the end result is ready for R to use in modeling, that's great.

R can struggle to index and manipulate large datasets for combining/selecting columns and filtering rows, but that's the really nice stuff in SQL. They work well enough together and it's really no big deal to set both up.
You scared bro?
This seems grossly oversimplified, and Im not really even sure its correct. Tesla is trying to (mostly) bootstrap themselves, so the obvious path here is to build expensive, higher margin products vs commodity products. I also think you are giving Apple way too much credit for calling it their business model. Apple follows a similar business model to the fashion industry, or the jewelry industry. There is no new secret sauce here. Market goods to "discerning" users for more money than commodity purchasers. Is the only point of this blog to get "Apple" and "Tesla" in the same heading?
No, he clearly makes the point that it's the intersection between a luxury & high volume business model. This is an absurd takeaway from a pretty well thought-out post.
At first I said to myself "that is a startup." Then I recognized it bascially exists in the form of the sidebars on reddit's subreddits.

It really helps with content quality because you can somewhat assume hopefully everyone is working from the same knowledge set to discuss a topic.
He pretty much dropped out of the public eye so long ago--and did it absolutely. In the late 70s, we tried a variety of good personal connections to persuade him to perform at MIT and the answer was a resounding no. Add to that a relatively small body of songs and there's just not a whole lot more to say past a certain point.

Edit: That said, there have been a couple of in-depth articles relatively recently. I suspect the issue is that they needed a lot of research that went beyond easy-to-find sources.
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It certainly costs me more than $0.16 to make a cup of coffee at home.

My most recent coffee purchase was for 400g and was ~$14 (so not a super expensive brand). I use ~20g per serving, so my bag of beans gets me ~20 servings. That works out to $0.70/serving in coffee.

To be fair, I drink black coffee, with no steamed milk. It's more fair to compare my at home coffee to a regular, $2.00 cup of Starbucks coffee (which is vastly inferior to my at home coffee in quality).
Just wanted to say that coderpad is fantastic. :)
https://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=we...
Arrest of Senior Adviser to the Operator of the “Silk Road” Website
I think the OP's point is that Apple is not like the fashion industry. Fashion items like Ferrari cars (pointed out by the OP), look nice but actually don't work that well. Whereas Apple products look nice and work well.
In America. Much of the rest of the developed world considers 400 miles of driving over a weekend to be crazy talk.
Eliminating XUL isn't being done for the fun of it—there are significant benefits. This comment also presupposes that there's no way to implement DownThemAll in the Web Extensions model.

See this thread (including my replies to it) the last time this came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099816
if you want to use the construction analogy.

praising apple for making good phones is like praising Franklin D. Roosevelt for building a dam.
They need to make money... Have you ever donated any to them?
> How did we get here from there?

The rest of that speech was unheeded.
This is a great piece, partly because the author is willing to reach a conclusion they can't explain.

It seems like this might also be one of the best ways to learn R. This is a real-world scenario, and various libraries are brought to bear on the problem. It feels accessible to beginners like myself, and it poses a question that I'm sort of tempted to try chasing...

Anyone have any theories about why Wednesday 4-5pm appears to be the most common time for arrests?

A comment says "It's because that's the day and time when there are the most patrol officers out on the street." Is there a data source that might prove/disprove this?
The military industrial complex in action.

This is the real motivation behind these conflicts.
Would it be alright for me to embed bit.run in a Swift tutorial site I'm making? My contact info is in my profile.
Dropbox maintenance
Anyone know why Dropbox is down today from 8am to 12pm? That seems like huge downtime for a planned outage.
The Software Freedom Law Center published an analysis of these provisions a couple weeks ago [1], and they didn't find any serious problems with them.

[1] https://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2015/nov/23/TPP-Article...
And make 300,000 queries over TCP like getting the list of county names in a state, or getting the list of place names in a county, because my actual use case involves fuzzy matching an arbitrary subset determined by user input, of 18,000,000+ unsanitized data records against geographical place names so they can be assigned geometries?

I'd like the program to finish in 15 seconds or less, please.
Hah, we're really not that clever. ;)
Ah, thanks for that! Great article.
The author's goal for this design seems to be to increase mining decentralization, but there's another big advantage to a blockless graphical ledger over a blockchain. By attaching proof-of-work to each transaction rather than to a block of multiple transactions, a blockless scheme asks miners to answer a simple cost-benefit question: does the payoff to putting the transaction in the ledger (in transaction fees and seignorage) exceed its cost (in hashing resources)?

Particularly when seignorage is zero, so that a miner's only compensation for providing proof-of-work to a transaction is the fee it offers, this eliminates a free-rider problem created by blocks in a scheme like Bitcoin's; as long as you can include as many transactions in a block as you like, the cost of including another one is nil, and so miners have an incentive to include every transaction that pays a non-zero fee, no matter how small [0]. That means the equilibrium price of putting a transaction into Bitcoin's blockchain, for example, may never rise much above zero. That's a real problem for the long-term security of the Bitcoin blockchain.

Per-transaction proof-of-work eliminates that problem by making both the cost and reward of adding a transaction to the ledger a function of the properties of each transaction, rather than of an arbitrary aggregate of transactions.

0. This isn't true if there is a binding limit on the size of blocks, as there is now in the Bitcoin protocol. But a wholly arbitrary block-size limit is a terrible solution to this problem because it is unresponsive to economic factors. It may be possible that a non-zero equilibrium price of transacting could arise in response to other constraints (like the risk of "orphaning" a large block due to the increased time it takes to propagate around the network), as some people have argued in the course of Bitcoin's ongoing block-size war.
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Expressing exasperation isn't assigning blame.
Once they sold out on DRM my attitude to the whole project was "why bother". If I want a browser made by people who cheerfully assist my enemies I may as well use one that's not mediocre in every other aspect.
Namely, dropping XUL support. Chrome still doesn't have a functional DL manager.
I experimented with automating something this in a side project by scraping any outbound links on a submitted url - for articles and blog entries those tend to point to references or related material. It works moderately well, but spam links and login links are a problem.

Hacker News could add something like that, and attach it to whatever code is being used to vouch for dead comments, so users could upvote the relevant ones. Combined with something to auto-merge similar stories, you might be able to tease out a decent web of context from posted material alone.
I mean, there are zillions of different functions, but no more than 784 linearly independent versions. (I mean, not technically since the functions aren't linear, but at any specific point on the functions, the linear approximations have no more than 784 independent bases).
Swift is just a programming language not an OS. You can program in C/C++ on Android and iOS if you want to and forget about Swift.
This is a really good way of looking at the two companies though I would argue "copying" is a bit strong. I think the author just found a common approach among the two namely that Tesla & Apple both are attempting to operate as a luxury brand pushing high volumes of "cheap" products.

It briefly touches upon objective vs subjective quality and does so in a way that it brings back memories of _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_. What is quality anyway? The author makes the case that Apple is an inherently quality brand through and through, and to do so, must invest into its own supply chain in order to get quality parts at a cheap cost. He then naturally draws the comparison to the Gigafactory Tesla is building. His conclusion is that the Tesla Model S (which he owns) will be how Tesla is ultimately perceived as a "quality" product. When it cheapens all the parts and sells a 35k car, presumably this will be like Apple selling iPhones. I think it's a worthwhile comparison.

It's also something to just generally keep in mind about branding. Many engineers might have snarky things to say about a marketing or executive moves, but customer perception is a huge deal. Android has generally stayed ahead of Apple in terms of releasing mobile features, but the higher-income earners still prefer Apple to Android. Why is that? These are the really interesting discussions, but no of course Tesla is not copying per se.. it's just trying to make a lot of money and well, selling cheap products at high costs because of perceived quality is a hell of a way to do that.