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>Tweaking color temperature has been done in Hollywood for nearly 100 years

Then why was it impossible to do on iOS (iPhones and iPads) since 2007?

I find it alarming that so many folks are supporting the actions of a company to control and inhibit innovation, literally hurting consumers' health in the process, in order to control and maintain their forced 30% cut of third party program revenues.

They have literally implemented Palladium and Trusted Computing and it looks like people cannot get more of it.
Not just anyone - Jono literally wrote the book on building developer communities: http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/
Money is an artifact of the state; always has been, always will.

Money solves the "Coincidence of Wants", that is, it acts as a collectively agreed upon medium of exchange. Cowry shells, beads, feathers, and gold have all previously been used as money. I don't believe those were artifacts of the state, they were an emergent phenomenon that arose to solve a very real problem. Can you elaborate on why you believe that money always has been and always will be an artifact of the state? Because I'm really not seeing it.
Except when it doesn't turn out fine because of something you didn't anticipate or something outside of your control. Had you afforded yourself the proper amount of time you would have been able to deal with those issues. If you're a procrastinator don't delude yourself into thinking it's somehow a positive attribute.
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Scroll down to "Nobody knows what’s going on".
I strongly believe that jQuery by itself is almost always easier to use than any JS framework or combo of libraries. The fact that these frameworks often are incompatible or at least look down upon jQuery is odd and dare I say disrespectful.
> “The government is regulating what automakers have to produce to meet new standards, but it isn’t what consumers want to buy,” said Michelle Krebs, an analyst with the firm Autotrader.

Why doesn't the fed just use higher taxes on gas to disincentivize gas guzzlers, and let the market take care of the rest?

US gas prices are ridiculously low compared to most of the developed world.
Its no surprise that mining power is concentrated[1]. Activities across populations tend to have a power law distribution[2]

[1] https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC (scroll to "Pool Distribution", today more than half the mining capacity is in two pools)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank-size_distribution:

"The rank-size rule (or law), describes the remarkable regularity in many phenomena, including the distribution of city sizes, the sizes of businesses, the sizes of particles (such as sand), the lengths of rivers, the frequencies of word usage, and wealth among individuals. All are real-world observations that follow power laws"
Haha what a crazy final exchange.

> uh oh, someone is still sulking [...] We really don't care about the drama

Oh, okay buddy.
If I read it right, they're not asking for a more complicated default for all projects, just that they can customize it for their projects.

And I agree, simple is good... but simple is also bad for large projects, as while it makes it easier to create a ticket, it makes it harder to track for the maintainers. They are (rightfully) looking to ease their work, and I do believe it is a net win for both sides if filing a bug is made a little harder, but it becomes a lot easier to manage.
insideevs is a decent place to get the news for anything electric.
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I will only speak for myself and people like me.

Many of us have deliberately chosen not to go the Masters/PhD/Academic route because of how broken/backward we believe the academic system to be, and that we can have better access to both research, learnings, materials, methods, and just a general quality of life, both materially and intellectually, outside of it.

That doesn't mean we're not interested in, or aren't doing, research. Indeed, we believe we're often doing it better.

These edu/PhD requirements are incredibly frustrating, and there's no technical or intellectual reason they should exist: Only social, political and economic reasons.

I know you did not mean any offence by posting your comment, and i do not mean any by mine, but to answer your question:

"If you want to research for a living and report it, is it so ridiculous to ask that you train traditionally in researching and reporting?"

Yes, yes it is. Research should not be for a closed shop of inward looking, often archaic and relatively backward academic institutions.
It's so odd to read posts like this. The whole hacker mentality we see for start ups is to break the rules, ask for forgiveness later, be a disruptor... But then when it comes the Apple sacred ground ban hammer so many people become apologists. f.lux has been around forever and is a good app with well-intentioned people behind, Apple is clearly ripping them off in this instance.
For years I've used the accessibility feature to make the home screen invert the colors when I triple click it. Problem solved.
About number 5. I don't see anyone complaining about anything.
Same old complaint every thread.

Ford self-driving cars can drive in the snow: http://www.wired.com/2016/01/the-clever-way-fords-self-drivi...
What's the benefit? They can do it better perhaps? That they will be able to do things that benefit the customer that Apple can't or won't. Just because Apple releases a feature doesn't mean it's the best in the category (more often it's not).
Likeable may be too strong, but not an asshole is definitely a plus. My team has NOT hired contractors before because we didn't like working with them. They could get the job done, were very skilled, but negative attitudes, constant bitching, or too high of a level of surliness just made it not desirable to work with them every day.

You will likely spend more time during the week with these people than you do your own family- why then would you, given the ability to choose, choose someone you don't like to be around?

I am definitely more productive when I am happy, I'm sure it's not possible to measure adequately but someone enough of an asshole that lowers everyone else's morale enough could likely lower the team productivity to a point where it is a net negative to have them on the team.

I don't care about culture fit, being cool, being super into whatever I'm into. Getting the job done in a manner that doesn't make me or the people on my team hate your guts is priority number one.
>That's what North Korea has (to the extent they have internet), and it is a problem in every way.

Is it a problem for the rest of the world?

And I wasn't talking about Bitcoin in particular.
Thoughts:

Is the quality of the trend data they are selling going to go down with less users using FourSquare every day?

Or are they going to buy and sell location data from other people, possibly providing some data and analysis layer on top of it?

It was a little unclear on the article, but I'd be curious why a VC dropped $45M if they think the FourSquare checkin rate is trending to zero AND the new value is caught up in them doing something with location data, unless that location data is coming from somewhere else?
Would you care to actually address some of the arguments?
Thank god for jQuery for this exact reason. It's been a refreshing constant in the exhausting mess that is the JS framework world, and the fact is that most software is "monolithic."
This might be a case of how not to flatten an organization's structure, but there is always heavy turnover during any restructuring.

There is a key paradox of implementing a "holacracy" in an existing organization. An organizational hierarchy is trying to force non-hierarchy on itself.

A prerequisite for such rapid change seems to require an organization that can rapidly adapt to change. But part of the argument for flat organizations is creating adaptable businesses.

I haven't read what problems prompted Zappos to push for these changes. Was an overly bureaucratic hierarchical culture holding a Zappos back from continued success? Is this admitting that something was wrong with their supposedly strong culture, but missing the actual problem?

This seems part of a larger trend on insisting hires and workers should have an almost cult-like desire to be with their current employer. And leaders who obsessively manage their company's culture and its perception. People who don't buy into the whole result are treated as non-believers unfit to be part of their "mission".
Not really. When people say it must all be X and not Y, you can bet that there's a sweet spot between X and Y.
re: point #2 - that's basically why I stopped using it, I found myself annoyed by it too much, so I just turned it off.
It's not terrible or rude, but it sounds like they haven't learned anything.

They built an app they knew was against ToS, so they didn't even try to sell it. They then got mad they were told not to do that and called for Apple to let them do it anyway. Then a few months later they called for Apple to let them do it anyway.

Once I read that it was more like hearing a kid say "but mom PLEASE".
Federal and State governments are literally paying people to buy plug-in electric vehicles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_t...
You cant come to the company with a radical new plan and have no idea what the answers to basic questions like "How am I going to be compensated?" before switching over to that strategy, that's highly questionable.
As an outsider, the only thing I can take from this is a certain sad feeling that it's a demonstration of a pure wild west unregulated and uncontrolled economy devolving into utter tyranny. You've got your oligarchs, your civil war, your rent seeking, and maybe you'll end up in a year or two with an outright winner. At which point that winner might as well cancel bitcoin, declare themself king and issue a central coinage.

Well, that and "Bitcoin has become garbage, avoid at all costs".
Personally I disagree with your view on the state of digital content.

First of all, I think that this level of control over released information is something a person should not be entitled to. Not in principle, on the fundamental-rights level. If you created something and gave it away, you should lose control over it, period. This is the only way society can develop itself - it's how new art is created ("every artist copies"), it's how science is being made ("standing on the shoulders of giants").

Secondly, let me explore your example of telling a secret. If you tell a secret to someone, and then someone goes behind your back and tells the secret to me, then your gripe is not with me - it's with the person you told the secret to. Similarly with piracy, I'm not downloading the content from your servers. Someone else is offering it to me. It's not my duty to ask where did he get that information from. Please, if you must, go after that someone else.

Now I understand the need to control some of this behavior in order to make it easier for people to pay for their food by creating information. But let's be clear about it - as a society, we're doing it as a favor to the creator. He's not entitled to copy rights, it's a gift that's meant to encourage people to spend their time creating instead of earning money in another way. It's a side effect of scarcity economy. In a world where one doesn't have to pay for basic living expenses, there's little to no reason to have such control on information copying. If you created it and gave it away, it's no longer yours.

Now so that we've established (just assume it even if you disagree) that the whole IP thing is just a side effect of our economy, it follows that:

- one should not be trying to make a moral issue out of it, beyond making sure the content creator isn't completely screwed - but that's because of basic human decency

- like with all other negative side effects of economy, we need to fix it

Which means, it's the IP, not piracy, needs to go away.
Yeah, the refuel part of the equation seems much smaller than a lot of people make it out to be.

Once you've got parking charging 95% of driving it will be a net time saved(from visiting gas station). On the instance where you'll be driving more than 250mi I haven't yet found the SuperCharger wait times to be an annoyance. There's still a subset that will want fast refuel but I think it's smaller than at first glance.
Just give the money to the NSF instead. Why spend $4 billion on this (pointless, worthless) technology that Silicon Valley is already running headlong to create?
There have been several cases of hidden cameras filming guests at Airbnbs, prompting a blog post about a script to detect cameras and disconnect them from WiFi [0] that was posted here about a month ago [1].

0: https://julianoliver.com/output/log_2015-12-18_14-39

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10763732
Zero structure just leads to lots of shitty issues that have no information on what version of the software it was against, no reproduction steps, and no stacktrace or debug output. I'm tired of closing issues with "I cant reproduce at all, maybe you're on an old version? Anyway feel free to open a new bug if you ever come up with a reproduction step..."

A simple optional field to include the version number that the issue was being reported against would do wonders for my interaction with users.

And you don't need to include that on your software project, but really if our users can't be bothered to tell us what version they're running, I have many, many other issues to fix which I know are broken in master.

Which I guess is the difference. If you're a small project with few users, then the handful of bug reports you get are useful and you want a zero barrier.

I have literally thousands of bug reports, hundreds of those will be left without ever being fixed (even though they may be perfectly legitimate). I have to triage. If a user is blocked by not being able to tell me what version they are running then that pre-triage of making them not even bother to cut a ticket with bad information is useful because then they don't waste any of my time...
>maybe a few minutes to a few hours for your transaction to go through?

Credit cards take 180 days for the transaction to confirm. Paypal is able to be clawed-back for up to almost the same amount of time. Cash can be counterfeited. Even some bank wires can be clawed back. Bitcoin works as a payment mechanism.
It's a shame that the .se is all that seems to be left of it, the .io version was far superior.
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> That's fine, because the open source nature means you can see everything the app is doing and verify that it isn't malware (and if not you personally, then someone can do it).

Closed source isn't a barrier to reverse engineering in any practical sense anymore. It's a post-IDA world.
All of Mike's arguments have been addressed by multiple people.

More than any other individual, Mike has wasted the Bitcoin community's time and caused the most amount of harm to it.

If you want replies to everything he says, go read them on the Bitcoin developer's mailing lists, the various forums, the various reddit discussions, the various blog posts, the various interviews, etc.
How long until truck drivers disappear?
Raw speed, aka better battery life.

I avoid (to some extent) apps and websites that consume a lot of phone/laptop battery. Like Quora and many popular newspaper websites.
Okay, I will rephrase it.
> Employees don't have to be likeable - they have to be able to get the job done.

I've seen places where that's the de-facto prevailing culture, and that's not where you should spend most of your waking hours.
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Just when I was halfway through explaining byzantine fault tolerance to my dad.
Saying this is pointless and worthless is insane to me. More than thirty thousand people die in motor vehicle deaths in the US every year. The amount of pain and suffering this technology will eliminate is incalculable.
True, but it's still user problems that aren't problems with the software itself. Far too often you get people who want help with _everything_ on a project, from installing the right language, their editor and so on when it's not something that really concerns you.
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No, they didn't. Part of the terms of them being able to buy Current and retain broadcast rights with the existing networks was a requirement that AJ stop online streaming. Without the deal, they would have lost all the distribution Current came with.
You never considered using jQuery, but you had to use Ember for a few projects? Do you realize what you're saying?
I'm curious, why do you say it's "pointless, worthless" technology?
This is a good thing. We should be incentivising move towards clean energy rather than letting things with hidden costs continue.
I tried to address #2 on their official forum and I was disappointed when the response was, essentially, "you're using it wrong."
It was very kind of Saudi Arabia to allow us to develop so much oil extraction technology at $100 and now teach us how to use that new technology profitably at $35.

I'm not exactly a fan of fracking and tar sand extraction, but it is quite an achievement.
409(a) valuations of common stock are often 15 to 20% of the preferred. You can see why with Foursquare, where they may get bought out at a low value that doesn't return any capital to common at all.

If the preferred price had been $20, options might have been granted at $4. If this round is at $10, the $4 options are not "underwater".
It can be as simple as a text file that is dropped into the content-free TEXTAREA that currently greets new issue reporters. Try running a big project like jQuery, Angular, or Babel and you'll understand how important a feature like this would be.
>Money is an artifact of the state; always has been always will.

Nothing can be further from the truth. You don't have to go too far for the example. Cigarettes in prisons are used as money. People use all sorts of things as money. State wants to control it because it wants to collect some of the value produced by other people. That is all. Bitcoin is about not giving states these powers.
At least this Cydia dev was more direct: http://www.cultofmac.com/99951/cydia-dev-apple-stole-both-my...
Just a casual Foursquare user here - I actually like(d) the app and found check-ins kind of fun; an interesting location is kind of like a hot selfie on Instragram for padding one's ego.

But from what I gather, check-in feature was removed? I must be using a rather outdated version of the app cause I had checked in to a few places recently.

This new focus on 'enterprise' ie- selling my data is a bit troubling.

Sooo... yeah, not intending to update the app - and will looking forward to an alternative or perhaps a more private geo app that isn't focused on 'enterprise'.
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It is arbitrary. It's a quirk of scarcity economy. If content creators didn't need to trade off time spent on creating content for time spent on earning their bread, we wouldn't have this discussion. And while I sympathize with content creators here, we've turned this into a machine for big companies to print money. At this point, if the crude hack doesn't even serve its purpose, why should people care?
It still seems like a pretty big deal outside the high end of the market. If you don't own your own home with a garage (which I think is the majority of Americans), how the heck are you meant to plug them in?
There is an industry standard suite of Vehicle communications protocols called V2X [1]. These can be used for SDC automation but no one is planning on relying on them, because there will always be places that do not have them. They can add value in some situations thought.

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=v2x
> We need world class, modern, distributed bug tracking now.

Why distributed? You need a central place to report bugs and track them to ensure they’re not duplicated everywhere.
This would be enforced exactly as all copyright is enforced --- through lawsuit.
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The reason why I thought bigger projects would be more capable of handling this is because team size = more manpower obviously.

> Quite the opposite, large projects should be moving towards github, because it's a great stage for them to perform on. On top of that, it's rather become the defacto replacement for sourceforge.

Not exactly sure what they're supposed to perform better/easier on a shared-hosting locked-in platform. If it's the issue of getting people excited about the project to want to use it or join in and help, it'd be interesting to see if there are any numbers to back this up.

I'm not sure about sourceforge but i never thought of it as a serious thing for big project hosting before github came around.

> It incentivises people towards public grandstanding on creative and technical issues, and encourages resolving disputes by forking the repo, burning bridges and splitting the dev team rather than discussing all aspects of the problem, chewing it over and making a group decision.

Totally. This is a good point I think. I never understood the fascination with obsessive forking (edit: lol, after the letter moved to github it got 2 forks! WHY! https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github) just to apply a patch or change a line of code (there's a lot of those). It's a nice feature and all, but not really that useful imo. I'd like to see some data on forks that haven't been touched as well, amounting to garbage, outdated code basically.

> ... throwing up a kallithea repo (if they don't just use DCVS the real way) and a dokuwiki and then knuckling down to business...

The thing that bugs me the most about Github and the likes is this. It's slowly taking away the will or need to do this. Same as how the use of Slack/Gitter has somewhat eclipsed IRC in OSS world. From my experience, I learn a lot when I'm doing things I don't really want to do or I find tedious because I either discover that there's a detail that I don't understand well or it motivated me to write an automator to sort things out.

> so maybe I'm just pointlessly resisting the tide of the inevitable or something.

Wait until the fixation on cloud crap washes off and everything will be back to normal lol.
Prisons exist because of the state.

In most countries AFAIK it is illegal to mint your own "currency" and call it as such, hence artifact of the state.

Bitcoin lets non-state actors create currency.. incidentally, those most equipped to fund the processing power, are state actors, hence artifact of the state.
> Money is an artifact of the state; always has been, always will.

This is patently false. Money has existed before states, and it has existed without states.
I hope you understand how lucky you've been. Would you say majority of devs have it like you? Because I've experienced the working hour issue. And that's not even at a startup.
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I don't see anything wrong with going after the massive amount of smaller project with simple needs, instead of the few large projects & popular projects with very specific needs.

If github evolves to the projects you're mentioning, you'll surely alienate the many more casual users. I personally hate working with the bloated applications you mention.
Suckless have discussed this several times and have fallen back to an email mailing list.

http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1201/index.html#msg10574

Last one proposed by someone: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1504/26210.html
I went ahead and created an account on GitLab.com. So far I can tell the transition is seamless. You can import a repository from GitHub with only a few clicks. Issues will be inherited, but the single PR on the repo I tried to migrate got lost on the way.
More panopticon, maybe?