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So this is how the California legislature spends its time? With all the real problems they have to grapple with, someone thinks up this, ostensibly to stop child trafficking.

"...$2500 per phone fine...if the seller or lessor manufacturer or operating system provider of the smartphone knew at the time of the sale or lease that the smartphone was not capable of being decrypted and unlocked by the manufacturer or operating system provider.

This reads like something a randomly selected middle school dropout might think up. It's so poorly thought out as to be laughable. In fact I thought it was a satire, except that the URL looks legitimate.

The easy workaround: manufacture exactly one phone per year that is capable of being decrypted and unlocked. Randomize it so that the manufacturer and distributor have no idea which phone. Thus, you will not "know at the time of the sale" whether it's capable of being decrypted. Thus, you're compliant with the law.

I wonder how exactly they plan to enforce this one: "A seller or lessor manufacturer or operating system provider who pays a civil penalty imposed pursuant to this subdivision shall not pass on any portion of that penalty to purchasers of smartphones by raising the sales or lease price of smartphones."

So, how will the state bureaucracy in charge of this thing know exactly why a company raises its prices? If this act is passed, manufacturers and sellers will raise prices immediately, in anticipation of impending and unavoidable fines.

One might also ask: suppose they actually manage to pass this thing, destroy the smartphone industry in California, and child trafficking continues unabated? Oops.
A reasonable person doesn't need to be told to be respectful.
> You can always say you have no problem doing this when you are at the offer stage and both sides think it is a fit.

Thanks, that sounds good.
Good post. And that's why if I ever by a car it'll be older and not require a proprietary computer sensor to maintain.

That and I have a hard time with the new "smart" driving technology. I was in my friend's Subaru last week and it beeped anytime he did anything remotely out of line...
> Google makes money selling you to advertisers.

That's a little misleading. Google makes money showing you ads. It's not like I can call up Google and buy billyhoffman's data.
You might want to be more descriptive in what you want. Do you want to hire someone to come in to your office to do this? Do you want emailed advice on how to do it? Do you have specific technical questions? You'll probably get better answers to more detailed prompts, rather than "can anybody give me a hand?"
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I disagree. Everyone is someone else's underling, even at the top of the corporate hierarchy, where you have the executives reporting to the investors/shareholders.

It then follows that everyone has to be taught presentation skills, just as they're taught evaluation skills.
"kik" is not actually a Trademark of KIK Interactive.

They do have "KIK" trademarked[0], but it is only claimed for:

>Computer software for use with mobile phones and portable computing devices to exchange, share and create text with other users; computer software for electronic messaging services; computer software for use with mobile phones and portable computing devices to exchange and share digital photos; computer software for use with mobile phones and portable computing devices to download audio, video, digital photos and programs; electronic payment systems, namely, a computer application software used for processing electronic payments to and from others; computer software for use with mobile phones and portable computing devices to create video and digital photos to share with other users; computer software for use with mobile phones to launch other applications and connect to other software services.

>Electronic payment services

>Electronic messaging services; wireless digital messaging services; telecommunications services, namely, electronic transmission of text messages; telecommunications services, namely, electronic transmission of digital photos; telecommunications services, namely, electronic transmission of audio, video, digital photos and computer programs; computer services, namely, providing interactive technology that allows users to create video and share audio and video with other users; telecommunications services, namely, providing computer software services for use with mobile phones and portable computing devices to create video and digital photos to share with other users.

As far as I can tell, kik [1] does not provide goods or services even remotely related to the KIK trademark.

[0] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:385...

[1] https://github.com/azer/kik
We're considering opening it up to certain third parties. If you're interested, f at platzi.com
Seems to me that there's a big difference now, in that even limited as it is, current AI advances are finding many important practical uses.

For example, automakers are shipping all sorts of fancy driver assistance systems, and a lot of that is driven by fancy image recognition and deep learning systems.

Looking beyond, there's the constantly-discussed self-driving car. It's not here yet, and it's going to take a ton of work, but at this point it looks like there's nothing fundamental standing in the way. It's no longer a question of whether it will happen, but whether it's happening in five, ten, or fifteen years.

Outside of transportation, businesses are applying AI techniques to analytics to squeeze ever more money out of their client base. There's the infamous story about how Target knew a teenage girl was pregnant before her father did. AT&T just sent me a letter saying they're giving me an extra 5GB/month bonus data as long as I keep my plan, which I assume happened because their data indicated I was a risk for downgrading or switching carriers. Improving these systems is worth a ton of money, and as far as I understand it fits really well with where current research advancements are being made.

As long as there are clear, immediate, profitable uses for AI advancements, there shouldn't be any worry of another winter. I guess the question is whether current advancements will peter out eventually, or whether we've reached a point where more research will always produce more immediate dividends. It sure feels like the latter to me, but I could easily be wrong.
Hopefully this is relevant but one of the things I had difficulty with in Rust is closures (or more specifically the lifetime and pointers of closures) and wiring up a system or library that needs lots of callback things.

See I'm used to Java where anonymous classes are closures (I really like that about Java/Scala/Groovy. One of the very few things I don't like about C# is that does not have anonymous classes).

So the problem is when I want a callbacky thing that has state it gets fairly complicated in Rust because you have lots of options that have limitations. For example there is bare functions or raw functions which basically stateless, there is traits but you'll need to use boxes and or cells, and then there is Rust closures which I had some various issues with because of bugs (they are probably fixed now).

I only bring this up because instead of so many tutorials on simple static programming stuff I would like to see how one might wire up a system with many callback components (ie manual dependency injection). I suppose I should look at how its done in Iron.

ie if your going to show something analogous to a Java/C# developer show them some wiring up of a complicated system that has interfaces and the components can be interchanged (perhaps that is just something you don't do in Rust but I'm curious how it would be done).
I might be wrong, but I don't think that means that it was sold for 57k, only that it was the asking price.
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See Donglegate.
There are people that extremely poor yes. They need help and society should help them. But they wouldn't be in the market for a new computer. My point is the cost of computing is about as low as it can be expected to get.
Name squatting in those package managers is a real problem. I found this on pypi and it was a very unpleasant surprise. https://sourceforge.net/p/pypi/support-requests/571/
The value of lengthly copyright is basically zero to any rights buyer at the time of production due to the very high discount rate used in the arts and publishing industry. If it weren't zero then publishers would pay more to young authors than old authors. If you can find one artist that has ever said they create more because their heirs can live off the copyright 50 years after they are dead please show us.

The only value to retrospective copyright extension is to give a windfall profit to rights holders long after the artist is dead. It is outright theft of our cultural heritage.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the article; it's a personal blog and switching mobile platforms is a pretty significant change for most people. I'd be more surprised if someone with a personal blog _didn't_ write about it.

That said, I don't see why it hit the frontpage of HN. It doesn't seem to add anything of benefit discussion-wise or show anything new in my opionion
There's no way this would ever pass. There must be an ulterior motive. Or even scarier, California legislators are just that dumb.
essentially, it's okay to talk about what YOUR company is doing, but it's a no-no to talk about other cos without their permission or off the record things like the dinner talks.

besides, much of how the program works is outlined on the main ycombinator.com website. YC doesn't really micromanage how you present yourself or your co (within ethical boundaries), but provides strong advice[1] that is up to you to follow.

[1]: e.g. don't immediately announce as a YC co as it has press value.
Oh, yes good catch. The 2600k is (12991 - 8520) / 12991 = 34% slower. That's what I get for not rereading before posting...
npm already supports all of that except the bittorrent bit, with the proper configuration, and without requiring that idiosyncratic namespace convention. [0] I don't think bittorrent is actually relevant to most use cases. Most people complaining here just don't want their site to go down, so they should vendor or fork all their deps and run their own registry to support that. Downstream users of public modules can either go through npmjs or perform the same vendoring and forking work themselves.

[0] https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/registry
> In the end, we all converged on the same opinion: that LambdaConf should focus on the behavior of attendees, rather than their belief systems.

And that wasn't the starting point? What a joke!

> We would never allow a violent criminal to attend LambdaConf.

Yes, you would. You'd be sued if you didn't. They did their time and (presumably) got out or the question would be moot. If they (or anyone else) threatened someone, see the next point.

> There is always a line. There must be one. The question is, where do we draw that line?

I've run conferences for years where the only policy of that sort is that we won't hesitate to call the police.

It's worked perfectly because if someone follows someone else to harass them that's illegal despite the subject matter. Harassing someone for liking the wrong pokemon is just as actionable as harassing them because they're the wrong gender. If the person isn't harassing anyone they're free to their opinion no matter how odious.

The police are very helpful in explaining "a disturbance" and how someone is creating one!

And here's the answer to threats, violence, etc. They get arrested. Not expelled. Not shamed. Arrested. Treat it like you'd treat random street crime and have them arrested.
On the other hand: Install Arch, do configuration once, keep installing updates but otherwise leave it.

Yes that works these days. 2 yrs and running, with minimal tinkering. Can't do that on Android (it would require you to never install an update).
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Also depends on which rabbit hole you choose.

I'm an electrical design guy, dilettante wrt embedded software. 8-bit AVR controllers were a breeze to work with at a bare-metal level.

Now that I'm attempting to acquaint myself with the STM32 environment and the requisite libraries, I'm finding the toolchain and environment a lot more challenging than what I remember from working with AVR.
I have a lot on my list of stuff I want to learn about but machine learning is at the top.

Damn you time! I need more of you!
blendle.com/signup/account rejects email GMail addresses of the form username+label@gmail.com - even though the launch.blendle.com/hackernews.html page accepts them.

It's one of my pet peeves, please fix it!
That is true to an extent but the key difference is that on iOS they are Apple apps, not third party.

We you buy a device that comes with third party apps that are not removable it feels like you just paid for an advertisement.
"2. To design a spacecraft right takes an infinite amount of effort. This is why it's a good idea to design them to operate when some things are wrong .
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one of the key definitions of antifragility.
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> Initially, the mail had been withheld under provisions that both limited the number of pages an inmate can receive from the Internet and allowed the prison to block Internet pages that it believed may violate copyright laws.

Would the important information the EFF produces be easier to get to people who need it but don't have internet access if it was available as a published book or magazine?

I suppose you would need a lawyer and/or court case to know if a collection of posts from eff.org collated together and published in a short run on Lulu.com counts as a "published book", possibly available through the prison inter-library loan system, or a "printout from the internet" for this purpose.
Most of the issues in embedded programming involve asking "what's going on in there?" In small embedded work, you usually can't print, you may not have a display, everything is time dependent, and you're directly connected to hardware. Debugging may involve an oscilloscope and a logic analyzer. Using a debugger means halting the machine, and isn't helpful if the problem is timing dependent.

For some jobs, you need a simulator that lets you debug in a more friendly environment. There's one for an entire Android phone, for example.
Presumably the workaround would be to "send us a donation, and we'll gift you a smartphone!" Therefore, no sales transaction would occur.

Or they could just rebrand smartphones as electronic doorstops. They just happen to do everything a phone can do.
Seriously, no one cares.

Except there are hundreds of comments, upvotes, discussions on Twitter, etc.
Dear god, it's happening...

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712706863561834496

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712728785838166016

And there's worse...
and then post the email chain thinking it clears them of any wrong doing. keep on being a dick
We backup from GCP to S3, pretty much everything else is in a git repo that we can redeploy from. Would be a right pain but definitely not 3 days.
And out of curiosity, who is the firing-squad person?
yep, exactly the same experience. I've used android since beta and finally switched on iPhone 6s. never been happier. At one point (on my 2nd to last android) i found myself flashing a version of cyanogen on the subway because the phone just stopped working. I was laughing to myself about the crazy mess I was in. and flashing was never a smooth process, each version had it's own issues for which of course the only support was the forum. definitely do not miss any of that. i was shocked at how little tweaks ios needed after first setting it up and how little work there was to transition to a new phone when i changed colors. it not "just works" but works extremely well.
As a percentage of cargo, small.

The military has used supersonic aircraft on cargo missions in exceptional cases, actually. Their supersonic aircraft tend to be vastly less efficient than even Concorde, though.
> It depends on what you value

I'm not sure why so many people don't understand that there's no one-size-fits-all solution out there.

I have a Nexus 5x that I'm pretty happy with. However, when asked I've only ever recommended Apple phones (and tablets and computers) to friends and relatives. Having a place where you can take your device to get support is pretty valuable.
What I was saying is a bit ambiguous. I wasn't suggesting that you can't build a business from an idea in 3 months, just that it appears that YC is not accepting teams with basically just an idea anymore. All the companies presenting looked to be pretty advanced going into YC. I don't blame YC for this as it is just a reflection of the great pool of candidates they get to choose from.
I remember a list - "Things you never want to hear your sysadmin saying":

- "Huh, it shouldn't take that long..."

- "Huh, it shouldn't have finished that quickly..."

- "I've never seen it do that before..."

- "^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C"

and several others...
But are those strictly react dependencies? Seems more like a demo that was doing a lot more than just using react. Eg, browserify is mentioned, but that's a totally separate project from react, completely orthogonal. So inexperience seems like a big factor here..

It's the ecosystem that's being complained about here it seems, rather than react specifically.
The recent issue with NPM surfaced the following two major issues:

- a package got unpublished - we demand an immutable package manager;

- packages got hijacked - we need authenticity as basic as checksums or signatures.

Anything that accomplishes the above in an uncomplicated manner will win my business. Any craptocurrency pitching will not.
> ruthlessly honest

With the facts - yes: open and honest.

But interpretations and impressions Patrick created with these facts are not as reliable.

Consider a major change Patrick applied to the Bingo Card Creator at the height that business:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/06/stripe-and-ab-testing-ma...

Not only did the 8 card limit absolutely crush the 15 card limit (99% statistical confidence, 1.89% conversion rate instead of 1.04% conversion rate from free trials to paid accounts on a sample size in the 5,000s range)

The facts are all correct.

However the interpretation is missing a very important point: that "8 card limit" (instead of "15 cards limit" previously) made free version of BCC much less attractive, which, in turn, decreased visibility of BCC web site in Google search results and sent BCC business into long term decline.
The thing I like about wget is that I can download with 'wget <url>' and it usually just works. With curl I need to type the file name in again and pipe the output.
I just need assistance in doing it myself. Im a self-taught sysadmin, and dont really work with powershell all that often. I just need to write a script that enables certain security audits in a multiple workstation AD environment.
Keep in mind that many of the things that can be done in PowerShell are simply interfaces to existing non-PowerShell methods. Auditing, in a Windows environment, generally falls to the local security policy and/or group policy defined on a domain level. PowerShell can be used as the glue for the various aspects of the system that can be audited but Powershell by itself is probably not the best tool to accomplish what you need.
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That shouldn't even work nowadays, you should have to run "rm -rf --no-preserve-root /"
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Would I feel like I had been treated justly? Of course not. I would be angry. But in a situation like that, I can't blame npm because their hand was forced and I can't blame Kik for defending their trademark. Especially if they're planning on making a "kik" package that has something to do with, you know, their kik.

I'd like to think I'd be professional enough to change the name of the package once I was prompted by kik, reupload, and be done with it. I'd be miffed, but it's a piece of software. It won't ruin me to rebrand it. It'll take an afternoon, at most.

Cursing at people and calling people names, I'd like to think that we're above that as human beings, no matter how upset we are. That's something that teenagers in League of Legends do. That's not what a professional software engineer does.
Any indication of the process used to perform this color analysis? Seems like an interesting technique for breaking down the palette and percentages. Effective templates could easily be generalized for non-specialized designers to work from.
I don't think for-profit organizations can accept donations.

The transaction can then be proved in court because there was a direct exchange of assets between 2 or more parties.
I did cold email a few people once, but it felt very very uncomfortable. How was your experience?
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>The thing is, even the same earlier years of BCC growth do not look as rosy anymore as they were at the time of that growth.

Why? He stopped actively focussing on the business years ago. Of course it's going to decline. Few recurring revenues businesses, if any, are truly "build it once, sell it forever". They need upkeep and growth plans.

Patrick's growth efforts went elsewhere.
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Its being rolled gradually to Groupme users
How many launches has the Soyuz had?

Think how many more cycles a plane goes through a day / month / year / decade. Times that by the number of models of that plane out there.
It's being rolled out gradually to GroupMe users
I regularly see companies (i.e. P&L, Balance sheets, technology spend, etc) in the small/mid cap space (EBITDA of anywhere between $500k-$10M) and you'd be amazed at how poorly documented businesses are that still are able to generate serious profits.
> Of course neither Apple nor Google are likely to support something like this.

They won't when they're on top. See Microsoft, Sun, etc.

But when the cracks start to show, they will cave. Long term betting against internet technologies is almost as foolish as betting against Open Source.

And if you think about it, how much longer can the gold rush last? Especially for mobile devices. How far are we from saturation? Probably not that far. The markets that are left are much smaller and harder to enter than the existing ones.

Of course, Apple or Google could pull some tricks to create entirely new markets, but that's usually a long shot.

And when the stocks stop going up (or they go up slower than expected), that's when we'll start seeing concessions from them.

Look at Microsoft these days.
And it's entirely possible (maybe even likely) that npm would have won in a court of law. But the legal expenses were probably simply not an option, and I don't blame them for that.
It has the same cost as ice-trucking in the arctic without the risks.

Edit: Okay, Transport is the purpose of the Lockheed craft. This craft, however, eludes me... they're pitching it for sensing/telecommunications purposes.
> I found out about this problem like a lot of you, when our builds started failing because we use the extremely helpful JSCS. Through a long chain of dependencies, JSCS relied on left-pad@0.0.3, which was removed by the author yesterday. Our team was confused at the time as well.

I love the irony on this
By now they probably have the yields. I'd guess it's just market segmentation. Harder to convince your server customers to fork out $4k for a 16-core chip when you're selling 16-core chips into desktops for $300.
Same can be said about Trump, McGregor etc? Do we really want these kind of people to "stay in the news and fascinate the world"?