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Not transparent to the user. Good security is one you don't have to have a PhD to configure. How much encryption is in iMessage? (Lots) how much did you do to configure it (none)

Transparent encryption (or, encryption for everyone even my mother) is the best way for it to be effective. So when I say transparent. I mean it should not be obvious to the end user and that user should not have to spend significant time configuring it.
Blendle does this. Blendle.com
Maybe .. another battery? One with 5-10% the size and capacity of the main one? Although in both cases the power management is a little tricky.
What do you mean by fix? I am talking about improving the situation. History has proven this is very well possible. Women can vote now. Slaves in America became rare. There is a notion of human and international rights, which is quite new. Witches aren't burnt, gay sex doesn't get you killed. Do you think that the status-quo is as good as we can do? I don't thin so.
I agree. With automobiles, people seem to be more aware of the constraints and the balance of capabilities to make a vehicle that fits a segment. I.e. sports cars aren't always comfortable. One day, people may understand tradeoffs in phones and realize that long battery life may require a thick phone.
That's why I posted it here. I think it's more of an intentional negative piece on Uber.

I was quite dumbfounded when the whole "craigslist killer" suddenly painted craigslist as a shady place for "weird" people online. I suspect the reality was animosity against craigslist for being disruptive to print media.
Something that has been on my mind lately is are we near the end of viable startups in apps? I mean this in a multi-platform approach not just mobile. But for apps in general I am starting to feel what's possible has been done and we are nearing a point where the big guys are already doing it and you might as well just join FANG instead of building something on your own.

Maybe I'm getting jaded though.

There are always new niches coming out... And there are reinvented cycles. Like how many big dating apps have been there since the 90s? Quite a bit actually. Can there really be another dating app in current internet app standards between desktop and mobile? Probably not.

Maybe the next dating app will be in VR and AR. In fact I guarantee it.

But I'm feeling that we are getting tapped out on app ideas before the next flood.

Makes me a little sad because I'm more entrepreneurial than anything and not feeling many problems to solve lately. Maybe it's just me. Anyone else feel similar?
What does this have to do with Uber, other than a careless disregard for one’s appearance to others?
Pointers please to someone working on a kernel in Swift... :)
I understand the general argument about transparency - without it you have to trust the person who holds hidden component.

The false premise here is that any argument that can be applied against free software can be applied more strongly to non-free software. Here are two contradictions to that:

1. The resources dedicated to securing non-free software may be far greater than those dedicated to free software because of the business interests in maintaining security. Google has done a lot to improve the security of a variety of open source projects, but only because they form part of a non-free core that would otherwise be compromised. The same holds true for Apple albeit to a lesser extent.

2. A free system can much more easily be compromised by the injection of cloaked vulnerabilities by actors such as the NSA.

You actually haven't shown anything. You have simply stated that transparency trumps everything else. This is false. Transparency simply diffuses the trust model.

More importantly, as I keep saying, nobody has ever produced a transparent system that can be substituted for Apple's system. Until they do, these arguments that a theoretical alternative would be better are imaginary. If it was as simple as you suggest, why hasn't it been done, or at least demonstrated?
Ironically, one of the big moves that AdBlockers are prompting is a push to more social advertising and in app advertising as it's blocked so much less.
Ironically one of the first languages of formal logic used a visual syntax [1] but only parts of it remain in use: as ordinary textual operators (like the turnstile ⊢ or negation ¬).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begriffsschrift
Ok so your position boils down to 'why not?'

My answer is because I don't feel like it on that day. Sometimes I feel like practicing non-violence, other days I feel like practicing it and letting off some steam.

There is no inherent moral virtue in not picking up a stick when walking through a forest and slashing tall grass as you walk around.

Now if tall grass can express discontent similar to human discontent and you happily ignore it, then the issue is that you're likely to inflict human violence with no second thought.

THAT societies don't like. But don't get it twisted with empty moralizing - we want people to feel bad about violence to prevent violence to other humans within our tribe, that's it.
In the US Uber provides insurance to the drivers.

Outside the US drivers are responsible for their own insurance.

How do you know the Uber you get into has suitable insurance? Any commercial passenger carrying driver needs more insurance than a normal car driver.
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> we all agree that shining shit is their job.

I don't know about that. I'm a consumer. I use the internet to search for things I'm considering for purchase. Tires for my automobile, landscaping services, holiday trips. After searching (and prior to adblock sw), I'd see ads related to my searches. They were relevant.

Many (most?) ads are horsepucky and annoying. Some are not.

I am not defending ad-based models for dissemination of information and news as the one true way. Just disagreeing with your extreme statement.
Node isn't a JavaScript framework so much as a platform to run JavaScript on. Express is maybe more analogous to Swifton here.
I don't get it. CSS is easy. Why make it more complicated?
Somewhat in the same vein, previously the way to learn about something you didn't know about before would sometimes have involved reading a whole book on the topic. Which would leave you much more informed than skimming some google result. I wonder if that sort of thing is more or less common today because people can sate their idle curiosity easier.
I am biased as an AR developer, but I think Chris underplays the impact of AR as a computing and communications platform.

AI - and eventually AGI - is an application of computation. It's revolutionary and I think will transform everything but it's not a computing platform. That is, AI itself doesn't have an interface, so it still needs a platform to run on. AR and eventually BCI and wetware are the platforms for interfacing with it.

Cars aren't a computing platform either - they will certainly utilize and be transformed by new waves of computation capabilities, but cars aren't a replacement for a personal computer.

Same with Drones and IOT. I think wearables will fall to AR as well - or rather integrate with it as a peripheral.

So when asking what is next for computing, in the context of the evolution of interface/platform from Mainframe to Micro computer to Smartphone, AR is unquestionably "next" as a platform.
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Sounds just like what HTC did with the HTC One in 2013: http://www.androidcentral.com/megapixels-ultrapixels-samsung...

>The HTC One trades sheer megapixel count for larger (2-micron) pixels on the sensor itself, allowing for improved low-light capabilities when combined with its wide-angle f/2.0 lens.

>the HTC One runs rings around the Galaxy S4 in night shots
> we have AI that is strong enough to recognize advertisements regardless of origin,

Cool. Actually, right now, I have NI* that does that.

*Natural intelligence.
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We won't avoid collecting the data. It is then just about who has access to that data - I say that giving everyone access to everything is the "safest", and that we can pull back from that in a controlled manner towards anonymising data.

But we cannot avoid this. For example one suggestion is that paving stones will come embedded with "RPi-level" computing (IoT will be so cheap ...) and will in essence be used by my local council to assess wear and tear and potholes etc.

What this means is that my paving stone outside my house will be able to report every time I leave, and you can tell the difference from me stepping out or in and someone walking on the preceding flagstones.

Can we complain about the council improving how it handles potholes? But it is a total loss of privacy at my front door.

This stuff will be everywhere
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There's also this one: https://github.com/namespace-ee/react-calendar-timeline

The documentation sucks (doesn't exist), but the component itself is pretty sweet.
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Brian is sounding so desperate lately. His opinion here just doesn't matter very much as the blocks belong to miners, not him. Frankly I'm encouraging everyone to pull their money out of coinbase right now, as the risk of a Brian -induced fork is non trivial, and his custody of your coins is probably not a risk you should bear
By "developed" countries you mean those deeply indebted societies driven by the fear of losing a job? Where software managers and founders push to the limits because they have the leverage? Of course you can talk to a therapist or read some Nietsche (or some Buddhism) and your problems will go away.
Random note, I recently used an old Nexus S as a mp3 player. I was surprised by the sound texture of crappy mp3 over my 10$ panasonic earclips... I started to wonder if the hardware wasn't responsible. According to some people it embeds a Wolfson DAC (of Wolfson DAC fame ~_~). It does makes a significant difference.
What artificial arrangements? OECD countries in general and CJEC countries in particular have signed agreements that enforce tax rules such that the tax collecting authorities as a rule bypass any artificial arrangements.

To be lawful, national tax regulations must be proportionate and specifically aimed at preventing "purely artificial arrangements".
To be fair, the Newton allowed you to change batteries with power still supplied. It used watch batteries. Switch one battery or the other and keep everything. People aren't asking for the world, they're asking for something that's been a solved problem.
I think people are somehow overly interpreting my post. I just meant that I wished this was available for non-functional programming. I did not mean to "diss" anything.

I don't want to learn something else ;)
In theory yes you could but out of the box it doesn't support that. Is there any support for that currently or planned? I've never seen multiple cameras talked about with the Rift.
I assumed it was a car crash from the headline.

Are cars invoked at all? "Man kills 6".
This is, I assume, a social experiment in seeing whether people will use encryption products they should stay well away from? :)
I believe DHH first started to use "Omakase" term in Rails context, so his blog post and discussions afterwards is good place to check. You can alse check original Omakase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omakase .
but also, having a weak battery life also creates demand for the battery packs.

if they're hotswappable and somewhat affordable, I think people will have no issue buying the packs and swapping during the day as needed.
Often yes, but that breaks easily. Referers are often not sent nowadays. Screen size and OS are often similar. Browsers now auto-update, so the versions are increasingly the same, along with plugins, which are getting rarer. Port numbers vary by connection, so you can't match them. IP address don't work well for people behind NAT, which is particularly common for mobile connections, which often have carrier-grade NAT[1], and for workplace/university/school networks.

Say you have two users on Macbook Airs using auto-updating Chrome (which has bundled Flash) in the same office or university, and both came in through Google.

Is this an unlikely scenario? Not really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT
Ask HN: Should I transfer my unofficial repo to the official group?
I have made an unofficial package for some open source project. The owner of that project likes it and wants me to move the to the official group.

Should I do it? I feel like a mother bird letting go of a baby because I worked hard on this project all weekend.

Pros:

* Get more visibility and help from community
* Solidify the project ecosystem by having everything in one place

Cons:

* Lose ownership of the repo
* Lose creative control

Feedback welcomed.
The two things I find myself persistently wanting to do in CSS, which I've never found a way to do, is:

- how do I make this element the same size as this other element?

- how do I make this element the same size as this piece of unwrapped text?

To be fair, these are both require multipass layout, which (IIRC) CSS is explicitly specced not to do. But it's still necessary for complex layouts. Unfortunately it doesn't look like Descartes can help with this.

...way back when there was a thing called famo.us, which was a pure Javascript layout engine; it claimed to be faster (and more flexible) than traditional HTML and CSS. The company that wrote it went bust, and it seems to have turned into http://famous.org. But I've never heard of anyone using it...
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Here is a link to go-libp2p, which I believe is what you are referring to: https://github.com/ipfs/go-libp2p
Buying bare dies would be really convenient for my die photos / analysis, but unfortunately with the Digikey minimum quantities, I'd need to buy 25 @ $4 each which isn't worthwhile.
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Why is that interesting? I have quite a few sites where I'd rather keep my commercial cert (which expires every 12 months), as opposed to a beta cert that expires every 3 months.
I feel like there's a fine line there that a lot of providers don't get. I am the type of person who reads every single email in my inbox, and I also don't mind subscribing for updates on things.... when those make sense. A service that honestly emails me from time to time when they release new versions or add new features is valuable to me and will keep getting its emails delivered to my inbox, and probably see a high clickthrough rate. A service that, like most, feels the need to email me at least weekly with pointless articles? No.
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Ok let's be very clear about this - I stomp on a cockroach because I feel like it. I don't think and ponder that it should not exist anymore than I wonder if tea in a cup should not exist in the cup as I drink it.

I happen to have what you call 'basic respect' for living things, I find a dude snapping the neck of a rabbit 'icky'.

I see that as me having grown up in a city and never having to snap necks to make a meal that evening. If I end up living on a farm, I'm sure I'll quickly get used to snapping necks of chickens and rabbits no problem.

See, your whole argument boils down to 'why aren't you more like me? Isn't being like me better than being like you?'

That's one point of view, I'd much prefer other people be more like me as well, so that I can get along with them better etc. I just recognize that that's simply a self-serving preference.
In the same style, there is EventDrops: https://github.com/marmelab/EventDrops
Hi! I'm one of the guys behind Luna. I completely see your point of view. Working with visual grpahs is something you have to learn to do, exactly the same way like writing a code. Unlike code, diagrams are thought more obvious for people without really strong technical expertise. I cannot agree with one of your points - namely that with each use case diagrams would look differently. Nodes have a position on 2D whiteboard - just like text is layouted in a file and displayeb by your favorite editor. The colors in the graph indicate the type of data and all the variable names are just hidden, because you don't have to manually track where they have been used. If you just look at the lines, you instanlty knows what is happening to that chunk of data, no matter if you're processing text, tweets or programming hardware with it :)
There are victims which suffer as a consequence of your actions. I think that makes it clear the behavior is unethical. If "I want to" were all the justification needed, the world would be an even more terrible place to live. We wouldn't accept that excuse if made by a person kicking a dog, for example, so why should we for abuse of other non-human animal species?

Edit (can't directly reply):

> There's nothing objectively wrong or evil about suffering

There is plenty wrong with causing suffering. I think in the case of eating animals, society is quite detached from the experience, though. That's why we shy away from watching slaughterhouse videos, why we put pictures of happy cows on cartons of milk - why such an unbelievably rosy picture must be painted to justify ruthless and horrific violence taking place all the time. Anyway, I would like to share with you that it has been my experience watching those videos and learning more about how animals are treated for food and other purposes changed my perspective, and it might interest you, too. Earthlings is a powerful documentary, is available free on YouTube, and I recommend it.

> The only reason you and I wouldn't accept that argument about kicking a dog is because that goes against strong social norms our culture has about abusing pets.

Exactly! To the same point, the reason it is acceptable to raise and kill billions of animals are also social norms and culture. Is the hypocrisy of it all not apparent?

> I find the presumption of moral superiority repugnant, especially in an age where we should all know better.

It's appalling you don't recognize that not abusing sentient creatures is morally superior. Personally, I see this as a strong denial mechanism which you may be yet unaware of. Do check out the Earthlings documentary, it will really open your eyes.
WebObjects was open sourced, was it not? (Although I don't know about the objective-c component).
Go easy on the sass there, Thomas...
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There's been some legitimate concern over what Uber does with the customer data it collects. Spying on and blackmailing journalists and whatnot. Who knows what else. They don't exactly have a "do no evil" motto.

http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/blog/ubers-deleted-rides-of-gl...
> This type of credit card customer is by far the minority (10% iirc), and least welcome to the card companies. Their ideal customer has multiple cards and pays minimum balance every month.

A card user who pays their balance every month is still valuable to the card company though, as it draws fees on every transaction. Someone who uses their 1.5% cashback card to pay for EVERYTHING and puts a couple thousand a month on the card brings in some cash too, and the day they lose their job they might start racking up debt.
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If Global Archery is aware of prior art, they are engaging in malicious prosecution and are abusing the court system. They should be slapped with penalties.
You've explained the inherent problem I believe to be facing humanity today - apathy and lack of empathy. We can't accept violence if we want to live in a free and peaceful society. All oppression has to eventually fall by the wayside and taking the opportunity to not torture many sentient animals is a good way to help.

> you can recognize that fantasizing about a world that's impossible given human nature is simply a waste of time.

I'm a vegan - I'm not fantasizing, I'm actually living in accordance with my beliefs.
Doesn't seem that out of line to me according to [0]. Subsituting from definitions in [0] yields 'as a result of Larping's deceitfully indirect or morally crooked interference' || 'as a result of Larping's circuitous interference', etc.

[0] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tortuous
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None of the apps I have on my phone have ads in them. And before you ask, no I don't have FB or any of the other "social" apps. I prefer to spend a buck or two to not see the ads.
do you want to have to maintain this for years?

do you want to see someone else come up with the same idea and transfer their work to the official group and see your work ignored?

Do you want the social recognition of making a officially recognized contribution to the OSS community?

Handing over work to others frees you up to work on new projects.
When I worked for Steve Jobs he would often change clothes several times per day. More than once when I was in his office when he would take off his custom-made, imported dress shirt and put on another from a huge wall closet in his office. Same for his pants. He would throw them away (our trash was incinerated at the time). When he showed up in his old Pumas or black turtleneck or bowtie or beat up Levis we knew that he expected to be seen by the public or the press - he was in his "costume". He literally bought custom shirts by the hundreds and thousands and they were delivered in cargo-containers. It was when I worked for Steve that I realized that my philosophy that "the rich deserve their wealth" and "it's their money" were completely wrong and even immoral.
Think of a CPU going from 4 GHz (Pentium 4) to 3 Gz (Core 2) and still being faster, because of a higher IPC. You can do the same thing with cameras to a degree, megapixel is not the end all be all measurement device.
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Super cool idea - I'll try this out today.
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This is FUD. You contradict yourself with your own statement. If any fork happens it would require a super-majority of hash power to support it -- the fork would be considered canonical Bitcoin and there would be no problem and no loss of funds. It's even questionable calling it a "fork" as there really wouldn't be a material side-branch.
I have a book called The Treasury of the Encyclopaedia Brittannica. It's probably the best demonstration of the difference between serious research and Wikipedia; here is a small sample of the articles (all excerpted from past editions of the Encyclopaedia):

* Space-Time by Albert Einstein

* Radium by Marie Curie

* Mass Production by Henry Ford

* Wireless Telephony by Guglielmo Marconi

* Wilbur Wright by Orville Wright

* Leon Trotsky by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

* Guerrila Warfare by T.E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia')

* Yosemite Park by John Muir

* Life, Terrestrial and Otherwise by Carl Sagan

* The Philosophical Consequences of Relativity by Bertrand Russell

There are many, many more. Do I want to learn from those people or from the 'wisdom' of the crowds?

I think it's out of print, but I highly recommend it. (ISBN 0-670-83368-4)
Good conversation. Thanks.