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> I would actually prefer to pay developers of apps that are truly useful to me a monthly amount so I know they can continue to update and improve the app.

Whereas I would prefer to pay for a useful app... and then if they develop in ways that I find attactive, pay some more for the improvements.

With the subscription model, they have absolutely no incentive to ' continue to update and improve the app'
That is the discussion going on - that what _could_ be due process is being manipulated for the various departments' purposes.
Didn't Hubbard give a talk where he likes some of the design decisions from systemd and wants to adopt them?
Why you don't have to fix every security problem
They are not re-implementing the kernel, they are doing a clean room (I.e no looking at the source) implementation of the system calls Linux supports.
Related is this one-man drone by a Chinese company which should being test flights in Nevada:

http://www.ehang.com/news/146.html

"Drone" because the on board computer handles all the flying (just pick a destination).
How are HN comments an issue? All comments are public, so what's the concern?

Keeping information in URLs is fine as long as it has enough entropy to be unbruteforcable. Bit.ly and t.co don't, and so aren't secure.
What if we could see if a person is friendly before speaking to them
Needs some sophisticated language parsing to filter out expressions of mild disappointment.
> My biggest concern is going to be OS compatibility.

Autodesk Sketchbook did this around version 6 (not sure if they still do it), and it's a horrible experience.

They change major versions and charge you again. You only find out when the older version you paid for is no longer available on your updated OS X.

Awesome software that I stopped using because of this.
You can keep flying with manual controls because it's fun. I'll fly in a self-flying car because I need to get somewhere fast and I'm not a pilot.
cool, I'll take a read
I use Apple pay here in the UK when I don't want to pull out my wallet for a contactless payment. It also ensures that I always have at least one contactless card on me for use on the tube if I ever walk out of the door without my wallet (downside is that because I am not totally screwed without my wallet I seem to leave it behind a bit more than I ever did before...)
Sure, if I wanted one, I would wait for it, rather than buy something else immediately. Not so hard to understand.
That's how my grandparents did it. Here in Sweden, we can have some warm summer months, and freezing winters. Their cellar let them store potatoes the whole year.
Bad connectivity in emerging markets is forcing availability of 'offline' video
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This is why the whole bureaucratic nightmare that is the EU Common Agricultural Policy exists: your profits as a farmer are dependent on a number of random factors including how many other people are doing well in your industry.

It's very easy for an agricultural industry to go through cycles of overproduction which drive people into bankruptcy (and sometimes suicide), then shortage resulting in high prices.

Having poor transport links (often the case in rural Africa) makes the problem worse, as this instability plays out in each little isolated market.
It seems like implementing a security strength which is a function of the current practical CPU speed is a recipe which could lead to disaster in the future, mainly because of how reluctant some companies are to change existing systems once they are in place.

The concept actually makes sense, but it kind of assumes that the strength of the security will be increased at the same rate of which technology progresses, which I don’t think will always be the case. This is especially true when you consider potential “bursts” in computation speed progression.

That being said, I’m not implying that I have a better idea. Running algorithms that take 30 seconds to execute isn’t going to work for logging into your Twitter account either.
What problems do flying cars solve? I know it looks cool but is there some huge thing that would get solved with this?
For fun and profit.
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BSD is for people who love Unix, Linux is for people who hate Microsoft.
I've routinely seen a desire to not use systemd described as "hate". Why is that?

When somebody wants to use zsh instead of bash, it's not described as "bash hate".

Or when somebody wants to use Clang/LLVM instead of GCC, it's not described as "GCC hate".

Or when somebody wants to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL, it's not described as "MySQL hate".

Yet when somebody wants to use some other init system instead of systemd, it is described as "systemd hate".

Why are so many systemd supporters fixated on this vague concept of "hate"?
Positive effect, stress and feeling sad taper off, while life satisfaction is log. I don't think we say life satisfaction tapers off, but it's a bit unclear.
So, I think there is a difference between a plane which can also function as a car on streets and cars which can take flight but mostly stay on the ground. The former can be lighter the latter would be heavier, using current materials. Primarily planes vs primarily cars.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It very good that you pushed back so hard, I see no other way to overcome this problem. The status quo was also built on (usually) a lot of evidence, it is not good if it would be easy to overthrow.
Pebble seems to have nailed 'wearable', something you forget about but is quite handy. I setup my Pebble Time in a way it can be used without a phone. Ok smart messages are handy to glance on your wrist but are not essential and perhaps even detrimental (they frequently disrupt the moment). If necessary I can get a week of battery life from it, I use a watchface that shows me a 24 clock with sunrise and sunset and a line where we are now. It has an offline calendar, tasklist, weight tracking, daily steps, expenses, 7+ minute workout exercises, timers for napping or meditation, games like chess or 2048, a compass to stay on course, various dice type rollers for portable solo board games, fitcat, planetarium and stellarium, calculator, moodtracker, sleeptracker, game of life... and it's UI is fast! It would be nice if I could connect a wearable keyboard or frogpad for navigation, could use database apps... but for bigger apps I can use my android based e-reader or my bullet journal
People are working on planes that can land vertically under computer control.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
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Communist!
Bill Gates should live in a 3rd world village for 6 months to really understand the nuances of poverty; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchability and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
Nice job. One suggestion: for the video links, I suggest you go direct to the video file. For example:

http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2016/06/09/792222083...

You should be able to grab the full video URL, depending on how exactly you're getting the data in the first place.
no, thanks, I'll check it out.
You might be interested in this

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/08/481286099/...
I agree with your statement. I wouldn't trust MS to run FreeBSD on their hardware at all. What if they throttle the performance of FreeBSD without you ever knowing it? Embrace and extinguish has always been their motto.
>try to make every file format incompatible with the previous versions

I feel like this is much less true than it used to be. For example, in Office, OOXML has been consistent, and support for ODF keeps getting better.
That won't be the case for many of the management readers of this article though. They will implement a no bonus policy and pay at or below market rates (before bonuses) and then grumble to themselves "millennials are so lazy!" when the 2 year turnover is 90%.
>Well in a world with no human jobs, Universal Basic Income boils down to the fact the wealth of those who own robots will be redistributed to those who don't have them

It would be interesting to see this proposal work out. Capital is movable whereas people are mostly not. How would you prevent the robots moving (or built and run) where there are no taxes on them? I don't see how this be preventable without all nations agreeing on it. It doesn't work even with tax havens within the EU so why should this work world wide?
Depends on how you define poor. Poor in developed countries may have more material wealth. But if it comes to knowing where your next meal is coming from, then maybe they are about the same.
It seems it uses OpenGL[0], so to play via telnet (or, better, ssh) you'd still need to rewrite at least the UI part of the game.

Or use VNC...

[0] http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=20395.0
> The second thing is energy, a plane needs to handle a lot more energy than a car, simply because it flies

A cessna gets between 15mpg and 22mpg.

http://www.cessna150152.com/faqs/performance.htm
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Re selling chickens, that means a rooster, who when I had one ate a ton (and laid not one egg ;). Then the hens don't always get "broody", so you buy an incubator...shots for the chicks... I'm sure in 3rd world they make it work, but the cost is non-0.

I have no doubt my coop was over engineered and way more expensive than it should be.(I'm a software developer ;) The biggest cost was wire, and also includes wire fence for a run, feeder/waterer hay bedding (we changed every week to keep down disease!?), etc.

I'm sure there were other wastes in my operation that could have made things more efficient. But learning those things takes time, money, and effort too. I'm sure if my life depended on it it would be different.
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Demand for human labor is already steadily going down. It was just masked by consumer credit boom, and now by the rise of temp jobs and contractor gigs in economies that will soon be disrupted (eg Uber drivers by self driving cars).

To keep them from starvation, you would need to redistribute money to the ones who don't earn it themselves. Either via Unconditional Basic Income or Negative Tax. Because means tested welfare has the result of punishing people for earning money, so they aren't as willing to reinvent themselves and take productive jobs. Same with minimum wage laws. Eventually our society will be so rich that we'll be able to afford it, but how do we transition there gradually?

Computers will attract a larger share of the revenue every few years. They'll become "money sinks". So you tax the profits from laing off people, not enough to disincentivize R&D but enough so we don't have a severe demand shock for human labor and contraction of the money supply as we did in the Great Depression.
Let's say that were true, so in a year and half you will only have to spend 20 years cracking the passwords? Bcrypt is designed for this exact situation and performs pretty well.
The CIA is the master of yhese euphemisms; "extraordinary rendition" for kidnapping and "enhanced interrogation" for torture.
I hope Citizen Science, as a movement, grows for precisely the same reasons you outlined.
Bots clicking on ML optimised headlines collecting money from ad networks optimised by machine learning, which serve ads a/b tested to perfection by algorithms, economy 2.0 right there. As long as they're for products made by robot, paid for by investment capital allocated by algorithms...

It's basically the ice cream cone that licks itself.
The ones that no one knows that exist or not, Microsoft isn't the only company selling closed source OSes.

Darwin doesn't count, because it isn't the full stack, nor can we be 100% sure that even that part of the code is shipped like that.
Someone else will always have better robots than you, your unemployed robots will sit in your garage.
We have unlimited money. But only when banks or the defense sector needed it. That's not a rant, that's an observation.

Think about it: Do we really, in the US of A or anywhere in the 1st world countries, have a lack of resources? In the 21st century? With hardly anyone actually working on the basics the population needs, like food, because our productivity is through the roof?

And "money" only is an issue when humans decide it is - it is an entirely made-up concept represented only in bits in computers (never mind that little bit of printed money, which can be produced at will too).

We do pay a huge amount of people in both private and public sector to do useless work. See dilbert.com cartoons and their popularity, and the results of research into the mood of working people, a huge amount of them thinking their work is useless to society or even just their own company.

The feeling (and reality) that we all have to work hard to get by is mostly an artificially created system outcome. With the productivity levels we have achieved, and the tools and knowledge at our disposal, we should have plenty of room for experiments.
What would she have done there? Would it simply have been time-filling for the sake of time-filling? It's a job, not a prison sentence.

I've been on a PIP. It was a place with an "up or out" mentality as a legit part of the business culture. The only mistake they had made was not being brutally honest about that when I'd gone there in the first place. And some of that was probably on me. You either went into essentially program management or out. I'd been looking for a job for about a year before I got laid off. It was disruptive, but it was for the best.

I could have gone for a Masters degree and possibly stayed, but towards what end? I'm already "overqualified" as it is. The logistics of that alone meant 120 mile round trips and there were actual financial risks involved.

Nearly everybody in the hiring cohort I was part of was let go.

I'd actually told a boss, face to face, that I wanted to stay technical - that my value-add wasn't in the more... clerical emphasis they were trying to pivot me to.

I worked a few contracts after that and made some of the best networking contacts to date. This worked out just fine.

Maybe Netflix could have figured out a way to make it work, maybe not. You pays your money and you takes your chances. They took a way out and at least ended it. The only thing that is suspicious about the story is that she wasn't perceived to be of value to the new automation scheme ( which I presume is the legendary Chaos Monkey ).
They can probably go in a straighter line to wherever they're headed.
This idea is key, regardless of what the dictionary definition of startup is. A startup cannot merely be a profitable business. If that were true many more startups would be still running today. But if you take investment of 10 million and you're positive cashflow of, say, 200,000 in your first year with a projection of 1 million / yr in 10 years, you will be shut down and sold off: Investors want AT LEAST a 2x return in that same timeframe otherwise it isn't worth it.
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Why? It doesn't really offer much beyond what previous gen models from both Garmin & Suunto provide, at twice the cost. Just curious, because this is an active discussion in most of the fitness forums/sites I frequent.
Doesn't have to be just their app. There are plenty of apps and chrome extensions that mimic authenticator ability.
Try spending a bit of time traveling. I've been on the road for almost a year. My phone number changes every month or two (or more depending on if I'm buying new tourist SIMs everywhere I go).
At launch it superficially appeared to me that Google had attempted to go further than Apple in rethinking the UI of watch apps. Apple seemed to have plumped for a more conventional 'app launched on a phone' than the Android watches

Can anyone that has used both comment on whether this perception was true and if that mitigated any of the criticisms in this article?
That is sort of none of our business.
> I don't agree with this, at least for auto-renewing subscriptions; that's my point. Every piece of software sold on auto-renewing subscription has some significant number of subscribers (as a percentage of its total number of them) that don't actually want it.

Some SaaS providers make unused subscriptions free of charge (Slack AFAIR), others auto-cancel them after a period of inactivity. This obviously only works if the provider has knowledge of whether a subscription is used, but it shows that the flaw is not inherent with subscriptions.

Other than that: I have quite a couple of pieces of software that I bought at pretty much full price and never really used. Is that immoral as well?
I also think there is a huge bias for publishing "novel" findings... that's how you get into bigger journals.
This video shows how Unix was mathematically more efficient than Multics, which goes a very long way at explaining its success and longevity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ea3pkTCYx4
Helicopters and small planes already exist. We might have autonomous helicopters and small planes in the future, but flying car concept is flawed and not because it's hard to build one.

- Preflight checks and flight safety. Larry should first build normal small aircraft that can do without constant manual checks before flight. This is actually good subgoal to work with even without flying cars in mind. Reliable infrastructure that checks and calibrates instruments so reliably that you don't need manual checks would be revolution in aerospace. Just walking from your car into your future Cessna-Android and flying off would be sci-fi for aviators.

- Energy consumption. No matter how energy efficient the engines are, hovering and short takeoffs use lots of energy. Flying with small wings with little lift is equivalent to driving monster trucks in full power. You don't want flying becoming everyday phenomenon until we have abundance of carbon free energy.

- Noise and safety regulations, aviation regulations over urban areas. Flying cars are not happening in the suburbs or anyone where lots of people live. In the meantime try to get new helicopter landing sites approved in your neighborhood. If you have to take car to your flying car hangar, just have a small plane instead. Or walk to a buss station.
Assuming you genuinely think these are not issues, there is a little too much material for discussion. I would suggest a google (or bing...) search for

1. patent microsoft android

2. microsoft formats compatibility linux

3. microsoft force installation computer makers

4. forced windows 10 upgrade
I am primarily a Windows user, but Automator blew me away when I first saw it a few years ago(mainly due to the OSX Applescript dictionaries? which it could access meant it had a lot of additional functionality.)

A cursory glance at macrocreator doesn't really give me the impression of what it does better, do you have any additional insight?
Celery's pretty nice, I've used it in several projects with rabbitMQ and it's useful for IO bound workloads. The main drawback with it is the overhead of dispatching the job and waiting for the result. With threads, there's no overhead of starting up a separate process. That said, I'd recommend celery to anyone where latency is not a problem.
Soon automated readers will outnumber real readers of the automated writers.

You laugh, but... let's take the personal act of wishing someone happy birthday.

Before Facebook, you showed you remembered by calling.

Then facebook reminded you and you went to their profile wrote on their wall, where you saw tons of other short wishes like "all the best".

Then facebook made a little area where you don't even have to go to their wall, and you can just do all your "happy birthday" wishes in one go.

Then there are apps that let you automatically wish happy birthday to people.

A little further in the future:

Now people are complaining they are getting too many "personal", "heartfelt" happy birthday messages from people they barely know so they ask an algorithm to sift through them and summarize them.

Now we have bots reading happy birthday wishes from other bots.

A few years ago we built this at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon to prove this point:

http://techcrunch.com/video/birthdays-demo/517760666/
Hard work can be a prerequisite for ability but it is no substitute for it.
"Pays as if they were making the top-end of the bonus range at other companies"

To me, this is the problem - who determines this and what is their dataset? I worked at a company in the past that claimed to do this, but to do this they generally need some sort of data source. And the data sources for salary data are tough to use in this way - positions/responsibilities vary, regions vary, etc. Just tough to get this right - even with the best intentions.
How exactly has Microsoft "faded into irrelevance"?

Various versions of Windows are used on probably 90% or more of desktops and laptops, in both home and business settings. It still sees widespread server use.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook are widely used.

SQL Server is quite common within many enterprises.

Azure is a major player, and is seeing more and more adoption.

The porting of .NET to Linux and OS X is making Microsoft's development technologies available to a wider audience.

The Xbox brand of consoles is quite popular.

Microsoft has numerous offerings, across a range of sectors, that have huge uptake and are quite successful. I don't think that "irrelevance" is the way to describe Microsoft or their products.
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There are a number of potential issues they solve:

1) Efficiency. A flying car can theoretically take a straight line to its destination instead of having to follow a complex road layout. It might be less efficient to fly per minute, but if you're flying less minutes, it could be a net gain.

2) Reduce congestion. How much fuel in a car is burnt in traffic? With flying cars, congestion will largely be a thing of the past, you have effectively unlimited road just by changing altitude.

3) Reduce urban sprawl. You can get rid of a lot of the roads that plaster the countryside. There will still need to be some obviously. But less.

4) Reduce national infrastructure costs. As above, you get rid of the roads, you don't need to maintain them anymore.

5) Convenience. You don't need a driveway or garage on your house when you can land on the roof ;)

All in all there are quite a few decent reasons for it. Just depends on whether you can beat that efficiency level.

It would be interesting to see if anyone has done calculations factoring in the cost savings from reducing sprawl and the miles of road that are maintained each year.
Woah - received some amazing feedback here! Thanks everybody.

So I'll definitely look at all the other, similar/identical products. Another takeaway is that this idea probably won't work on a per-commit basis - what's a good way to make sure recurring contributions correspond with actual development activity?
The critical UX difference is: when in Live Photo mode, it is continuously recording - idea is you take a photo, and get 1.5 seconds before & after.

This differs from "3 seconds of video" in that it starts recording BEFORE you decide to.

It's all about the UX.
Dear French entrepreneurs: Please stop giving a f–k what the world thinks of you
R is only recently getting involved in the financial world. Most of R development has been in academia focusing on biostatistics, clinical trials and such. There is an R in Finance conference every year. Also there are a lot of good packages for securities, investing, and risk management.

https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Finance.html
Fi is great in the SFBA because, even though all the major players operate here, none of them have comprehensively high quality service without significant dead spots.
The first line of his 1991 announcement comes to mind. He has called it an operating system more recently, but I can't find a link right now.

> I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
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