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> "Can you use Spotify with you iPod classic?"

The original iPod had no wifi so that would be tough. And iTunes is more locked in than I like, so I use Amazon for my media purchases.

> "At some point, corporations convinced consumers that buying a whole service contract everytime you play a song."

Well, no one is a buying a new contract every time, but I assume you mean that I'm agreeing to a contract when I listen to a song. If that's the case, yes, it's better than it used to be. I have access to millions of songs. We have on demand radio where I can pick every single song I listen to and I pay next to nothing for it. It's something we've dreamed of for decades.

> " is more convenient than just playing a song"

And are these companies supposed to just provide these songs for me for free to listen to? How would that work? And I can still buy music if I want, which I do for the artists I enjoy.

> "Now you will have to buy a whole new service contract everytime you drive a car"

I will?
I wish I could still run the original version of Android I got when I bought my tablet. The version I have now (and got forced upon my tablet) is much slower and less stable.
You can't crash airliner because you can't get into cabin anymore. So most terrorists can do is kill everyone on board, which is the same as to blow a bomb elsewhere (you underestimated potential harm of bomb in security line), and they already are doing that. So those rigorous checkings in airports only hurt normal people, and do nothing for security.
Android has a different update model. It's inferior to Apple's, obviously. But that's how life is when you have OEMs that insist on adding a lot of their own "value" and who sell through the carrier channel.

In a strange way, this article confuses latency with throughput. It takes a long time for each Android update to gain a majority of the installed base. But it does get there. Slowing the frequency of updates will not change that.

Android continues to develop at a fast pace. Android N previews large-tablet/desktop OS features like proper mouse support and resizeable windows. This would not be the time to slow the release schedule.

One reason I hope the tablet market grows to where it can influence the overall Android market is that tablets do not need carrier approval for updates.
Actually, it kind of is, the technology (high voltage DC) is well understood and being deployed at high rates in China. It's also affordable. Assuming no new breakthroughs in wind or solar technology, and ignoring storage, we can use HVDC with lots of wind and solar to eliminate 75% of our electricity emissions, and even slightly lower the cost of electricity. And that's even without shifting any use right now:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/making-a-single-us-el...

http://rameznaam.com/2016/01/31/how-far-can-renewables-go-pr...
This is the far more common someone-wrote-a-press-release-that-makes-for-a-headline.

https://www.dewa.gov.ae/news/details.aspx?nid=1689
Yeah, I took a class on programming, classes in French, classes on Graphic Design (super smart decision, came in handy ever since), Philosophy and Debate, and probably could have taken more if I didn't have one period taken up by Band for four years, in high school.

And I took a few AP classes that you dismiss as being simple multiple choice tests, which wasn't the case.

The parent was talking about intense focus on stem in college being something he's worried about for his kid, not high school.
>When the majority of people who want to buy nail varnish bypass search entirely and go straight to Amazon

Do you even do this? My guess is the majority will never do what you're setting out to believe. Strictly speaking of Amazon, they don't even have the best prices these days.
Enthusiasts is a subset of users - a small one at that.

Still I agree the problem is devices are not getting update and it's not a problem of want as the article hints, but of can't, at least at the user level: Of course carriers and manufacturers hate having to support devices instead of selling new ones!
I'm not disagreeing with your general point -- from my observations at a tech-focused school, many STEM folks write off the arts pretty hard -- but I think your examples are poorly chosen. Most folks are aware or have at least heard that, at a deep level, music has a lot of mathematics. Additionally, linguistics emerged specifically as a scientific study of language: much closer to STEM than other humanities.

A better example might be that philosophy/law require broad and deep contextual knowledge of prior thinkers and extremely strong logical skills. Even having trained in formal logic as a software developer, I sometimes struggle to parse philosophical arguments, even when laid out plainly. Yet, even that is still a comparison on the same plane as STEM when ultimately these fields come with different sorts of complexities. Apples and oranges.
Neat. Now it's just a matter of dealing with the absurdly low free usage limit and absurdly expensive paid tier.
Their search result HTML is pretty easy to scrape though
I'm not trying to give investment advice, just explaining why you should be somewhat credulous about any sales pitch from a guy with vested interests in where you should put your money. It's not as simple as Buffett makes it seem.
If you want "fun investing", go to Vegas. I personally don't think of investing as a source of entertainment.
How (And Why) to Disrupt the Insurance Industry
and ask how much antibacterial and antifungal it requires to have a energy rich food in the warm and moisty ambient of your foot.
A better option is to expand to multiple columns, like Newspapers discovered centuries ago.
Lean Startup Principle Applied to Fiction Writing
I like that DRM exists in exactly one use case - online movie rentals. They wouldn't exist otherwise.
> Ranking code could itself learn & adapt to each individual user

Cue blackhat SEOs creating millions of subverted "users" on AWS spot instances/Lambda
I looked at the title and was sure it was referencing the Amiga game, not sure what that says abput me!
As are CAES, Redox Flow Batteries, Pumped hydro, and other utility-scale energy storage.

Energy storage is improving rapidly. Lithium-Ion batteries are but one technology that I don't personally expect will become the norm at grid-scale.
It's not a joke. There was another thread with lots of people advocating the feasibility of this a few days ago. There are apparently a lot of people here who have no understanding of business finances.
I do the same. I take 10% of total net worth and invest wherever the hell I want. I call it my 'casino fund'.

For me I don't care about #2. If you had the most boring investment in the world that returned exactly 7% every single year I would put 90% of my assets there immediately. But I'd keep trying to beat that 7% in my casino fund.
When someone has been through a trauma we want to help that person recover. Their recovery is not helped by blanket avoidance of "triggers". Their recovery is helped by a cautious therapeutic programme of planned exposure, with support and follow up.

It's obvious that this is very different from how trigger warnings are currently being (ab)used. Trigger warnings are not being used to provide information to consumers so they can make an informed choice. Trigger warnings are being used to stop distribution.

Some law courses struggle to teach law around rape, because "triggering". Some sociology courses don't teach about suicide because "triggering".

The solution is to provide the warning, and to also teach the topic, and to make sure that the few people who need it have access to good quality support.
Problem is there's a large number of people who work hard, produce and frankly don't look too kindly on those who don't. Why is it so hard to understand that when we don't have to do something, a lot of people won't do anything but frivolous non productive activities, while unabashedly leeching off those who like to work for profit, progress and frankly to make life interesting for them, their community and the future of all.
Horseless carriages are becoming a big thing, more and more companies are starting to create their own versions of the horse of the future. It is certainly looking like one day in the future everyone will be driving one, except me.

One of my main reasons for never wanting to own or use a horseless carriage is the simple fact that I love to ride. Riding is not a chore, there is something very satisfying and calming about riding through the countryside on a warm summers day, or riding down the french motorways taking in the miles of open fields and rustic towns, or even riding home from a long day of work. I feel that being the passenger to a driving engine would take most of the joy out of this, riding is like a rollercoaster that I control and I helped build, my horse (a Rhenish Warmblood btw) is like an extension of me that I appreciate and take care of. Riding lets you get around with such ease and enjoyment, it helps you get away from the hussle and bussle of daily life and be alone with your thoughts and the world. I never want to be in a carriage that takes this away from me.

etc., etc.
I'm guessing the imessageclient project doesn't work on El Capitan yet? How does your iMessageModule[0] get around it?

[0] https://github.com/CamHenlin/iMessageModule
This is basically a restating of William Sharpe's famous 1991 paper that basically started the whole discussion.

"Properly measured, the average actively
managed dollar must underperform the average passively
managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses
that appear to refute this principle are guilty of
improper measurement."

When someone picks active management over passive, they are really betting that they can beat, and hence are not, average. It's difficult for people to swallow their hubris, even when simple arithmetic shows them that they are (collectively) wrong.

http://www.cfapubs.org/doi/pdf/10.2469/faj.v47.n1.7
Quantum computers and AI seem like they're made for each other, because both depend on optimization algorithms. Now, whether our current AI algorithms can be sped-up greatly by quantum computers, or we'll need to find new AI algorithms that are sped-up by them, we'll have to see. I'm sure Google will try to port DeepMind to its own universal quantum computer in the next few years.
Not when you realize the desalination is a big thing around the world.
I understand your feelings but I don't think they match the reality of many places around the world.

Maybe those developers earn so much that they can provide quality even if their customers don't explicitly demand it. But we can look at it in another way: their customer pay so much because they also pay for that quality and take it for granted. Deliver to them an unpolished product (in any way) and somebody else will code the next one.

Unfortunately not all customers are like that. Many of them fight for every single dollar/euro/whatever. They know they are compromising on quality and accept the tradeoff. After all, it's their privilege to decide the limits of their budget and maybe there is nothing they can do about it. The developer must accept it too, get the job done as quickly as possible and take another job. Or do very few and very long high quality jobs at unbearable costs and end up bankrupt quickly (and possibly piss off the customer because you're taking so long to deliver.)

Btw: customers give constraints also on time. There is no time to provide much quality when they want a feature delivered in a couple of days on a system you never saw before. It happened to me a few weeks ago. I made it but I could have done it better if I had at least one week? Sure. Would they pay me twice as much? Nope.
Photoshop-driven development is still a common practice in the mobile space? That's horrifying.
> Do you expect ruby developers to dig into kernel source code and more importantly actually understand what is in there?

Yes. Anyone maintaining and distributing the security related code of a language runtime should understand as much as humanly possible about what is actually going on from the application level all the way down to the hardware.
I assume that people down voting me really enjoy all the ads and popup overlay on blogs/sites that make browsing especially painful on mobile device.
Yes? So far, at least. If not, there's a massive business opportunity here. C'mon guys, get to it, I want to be a fly on the wall when you pitch your big DRM-free subscription streaming service to Sony, Warner, HBO, etc. Money is being left on the table and you guys are just sitting around on HN bitching about DRM!
I don't mean to say that every child shows a natural interest in programming. But I didn't have access to YouTube 30 years ago when I was first learning to program. And even with the resources available, we were the privileged few who were able to pursue our curiosity.

Teenagers congregated in the same place, away from their parents? That's the age when humans tend to get much more curious about other humans. You could have them code on paper, and reason with each other while looking at each other.
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I disagree slightly. Mostly because you can find dozens of commentaries and critical analyses of great works of fiction to complement your reading. These are essentially transmitting the same info a knowledgeable teacher/group of classmates would. The resources for math and science are also vast, but often require access to specialized laborites/equipment at the upper levels.
Hmmm, looks like the US Government made the money back from that one. As a whole, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is MAKING money from the loans.

Even Solyndras is just one tiny failure in a massive pool of wealth-creation with regards to the entire program. US Government makes money from the loans. US citizens created jobs for each other. Solar energy development got accelerated.

The only answer to Solyndras is... damn, that was a single battle lost (0.5 Billion loan default), but the US definitely "won the war" on the $800 Billion program.
I am going to go out on a limb here and hazard a guess that the number of people willing to hang out on Android forums and hassle with rooting the phone to install a new version of the OS is vanishingly small compared to the number of people who couldn't tell you who made their phone, much less what version of the OS it runs.

That said the fact that a new Android release has to pass through two other sets of hands before it can get to an end user sure ain't helping.
You're welcome. Thanks for a useful site.
Would you like some code review of the source code done? I'm not sure how much time I'll have in the near future, but I can try?
It's unlikely to invest in a index that gives you a 10x return.

Average return from S&P500 from 1928-2015 is 11.41%
[ source :
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/... ]

Note that this is not inflation adjusted; inflation is about 3.4% historically.

It'd take a little over 21 years to get a nominal 10x return at 11.4% average return.
There's also a little confidence imparted by a smooth, modern UI.

While super dependable, proven, spacecraft, the current Soyuz ferries are closer to U-boats inside: purely functional, clunky, and claustrophobic with exposed plumbing, wiring, and dated avionics.
Where did you go to college?

Also, I did IB too (got a 7/7 in HL History ;) ), and anecdotally I think it's dramatically easier than the French high school diploma. The History exam, at least, may not be multiple choice but it usually asks about very concrete things.

"1. With reference to one war before 1945 and one war after 1945, assess the significance of either air
power or naval power in deciding its outcome."

This is basically a step up from regurgitating facts. I agree it is not as deep as what you will have to learn in a university course.

The questions I gave in my example were much more open-ended and require a lot of independent analysis and synthesis to approach, as well as knowing a lot of facts.
You get quadratic speedup on mining, since the HashCash proof-of-work used in Bitcoin is a perfect application of Grover's quantum database search algorithm.

So while classical miners are brute forcing through a 2^70 search space, the quantum miner can find a solution in roughly sqrt(2^70) = 2^35 steps.

Other proof-of-work systems can be more quantum resistant,
e.g. looking for a fixed-length cycle in a huge random graph, for which no efficient quantum algorithm is known.
> In a web app, you’re either the frontend or backend developer. In a mobile app, you’re the app developer.

Maybe if you're part of a bigger team. But if you're working on an app of the same scale as this hypothetical mobile app - where you have a single client who has a designer - you're pretty likely to be doing all of the front-end stuff as well.
Check out http-parser for Python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/http-parser

This uses Dahl's original http_parser.c FSM. With a little work you can write a WSGI handler around it. Highly recommend.
I had friends who supported the muzzling.
"They are just trying to spark propaganda and brainwash our society" was what one in particular said.

I just dropped the subject from there on out :|
Put 95% or so in passive, then use the rest for a few gambles. If you lose it all, no big deal, make sure you're comfortable writing it off. This way you can get the entertainment value, playing extremely risky with this money but without taking on much large scale risk. You can use leverage or options trading to maximize the risk/return for this if it doesn't feel like it's enough to be fun.

Some people say lottery tickets are the highest risk portion of the portfolio, but for people who like looking at numbers as you're describing, I think this is a better option.
People still ride horses, on a track. Invest in a race track now and yield much when manual driving becomes a hobby.
In 50 years the idea of ownership by individuals will be dead. Trans-genic organism have IP protects, tractors too. The whole of Agricultural production will pretty much become a licensing business.

The same will happen to large-scale mass manufacturing plants, small scale manufacturing, Automotive, logistics and communication.

If this was, say, Cambodia, they would have been crushed under the weight of competing markets, but we have international trade agreements, essentially allowing certain American laws to apply internationally and the clout to enforce them.
Wish I know the cure for cancer
If you have higher appetite for risk, take an efficient portfolio and lever it up to your desired risk level.
Ok, I think you're picking really easy targets. Nobody else here is talking about banning tag or bullying teachers or something. These aren't the people I'm talking about and you know that.

Can we move on from this pretty limited discussion? Most other comments here have made it clear that not every use of "safe space" and "trigger warning" is legitimate, and we all agree with these layups you're taking.
> every bit of media that is “exclusive” to DRM-encumbered formats shows up, every single time, unlocked on file-sharing networks and torrent sites.

Incorrect. PC games, software, console games - many of these have not and likely will not be cracked. That's not to say there aren't many out there but if you have paid attention to information dripping out of cracking groups, you'll see it's becoming much more difficult to get around DRM.

Similarly, Cinavia works. RTMPE works.

It doesn't mean they should be there. It doesn't mean that adding the DRM doesn't cause annoyances to legitimate consumers. But that blanket statement that whatever DRM you add is ineffective is simply wrong.

Edit: quick example - ps4 released Nov 2013. Can you play pirated games on it? Nope. You can install linux but it's likely a number of years before piracy can happen.

https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2015/console-hacking-2015-line...
http://www.charitynavigator.org/ might be something like what you're looking for.
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`"responseStatus": 403`, but the actual HTTP response is 200 OK?!
You would fire a long-time cartoonist because one cartoon wasn't funny, subtle, or provocative?

You have extremely strict standards!
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The same argument could be applied to IE6 when it came out. Noone wants newer browsers more than every 3 years!

What rubbish.
Try resetting your tablet and loading only the apps you use. Slowing down as a device ages is often to do with apps doing useless things, like loading ads and spying on you, in the background. This gets worse as app publishers update their apps to do ever more intrusive things in pursuit of revenue.

If that doesn't improve your life, check if there is an aftermarket distribution, like Cyanogen, that runs on your tablet.

EDIT: You may also be able to disable built-in apps you do not use, even if you can't uninstall them.
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"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada grabbed international headlines recently with a simple explanation of a cutting-edge technology called quantum computing."

While dodging a question about his understanding of economics. Forgive me, I'm just a bitter Canadian upset that we're now running a huge deficit and passing the buck on to our children.
> A C program (in general) is more portable than anything written on top of C because to port, say, Python to a new platform, one has to have C there first.

Port C compiler -> port your C program vs port C compiler -> port Python interpreter -> port your Python program. The latter can still end up a lot easier and cheaper, because the Python interpreter is already multi-platform and Python programs tend not to have much if any platform-specific code by the nature of the language.

> It has nothing to do with whether the work has been done by you or someone else.

It has everything to do with that. Ultimately via Turing equivalence it's possible to port anything to anywhere, so when we're talking about "portability" we must be talking about how much it costs to port a program to a new or existing architecture.

> Of course, one can write code in either language which is not portable, but that is also beside the point.

Again, it's very much the point, because it can't possibly be a yes-or-no thing. How costly is typical/idiomatic C code to port? How costly is typical/idiomatic Python code? Those are the questions that matter when we talk about language portability.
A company cannot "buy itself back". That doesn't mean anything. The company never owned itself.
Regular table salt do come from saltwater, you know that, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt#Production

"All the other ways" is salt mines
I had 2 different smart watches myself before the Apple Watch was a thing.
The thing is, you have no idea what I've experienced- nor am I going to start comparing life stories. Nor do I know what you have experienced.

You are assuming that everyone has actually experienced trauma, I'm saying that what a lot of these people feel is traumatic because they weren't equipped with the tools to deal with it in the first place.

If you get in a head on collision in a 50 year old car with no seat belt, you will likely die at most speeds. If you do the same in a brand new car with all the safety tools necessary you can walk away completely unscathed. Or somewhere in between- each collision happens in it's own way.

We're taking our kids today and stripping out their air bags. I'm saying that if a discussion, even if heated, renders you generally traumatized AND you weren't a victim of some abuse or 'real' trauma, it's because the people who had a hand in raising you completely failed you. I'm not saying you're not traumatized, I'm saying you wouldn't have been if your parents, educators, and elders did their damn job.
Then it's just a market forces question. Use a provider of search services which matches your budgetary/usage requirements.