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Instrument/synth designer here.

There are many possibilities for Phil. He really has to think in terms of musician value, not the software artifact.

My first suggestion is to sell a playable instrument, e.g. to bundle a controller with a pre-installed RPi. The real market is for something a musician can switch on and play. Musicians want a box you can open, turn on, press buttons and hear sound. No logins, configuration, compilation, boot-up, login, installation. Make sure you have the right jacks (MIDI, 1/4" audio output, 3.5mm headphone). Notice all this hardware is difficult to pirate. Musicians only have limited time to pirate and a surprising number of them actually pay for software after pirating it for a while. They are mainly motivated by reliability, getting the newest thing (piracy has some lag associated with it) and resale value (pirated stuff can't be re-sold) and to some extent social embarrassment. Basically, if they're making money from your software, they're more likely to pay you.

I have found the overlap between programmers and musicians to be a thin-ass Venn diagram. You can't sell possibilities or flexibility (only expandability, but that's a low priority). You have to sell playability. Most musicians will take chances on something new, but they don't want to invest a ton of time in it. They'll see what it does NOW, not in the future and introduce it as an accompaniment to an existing track. As they build a relationship with it, they'll rely on it more and more.

My suggestion to Phil is to put together a small run of about 10 immediately-playable systems and sell them. Stay close to the people you sell to, encouraging them to use it and listening to them. Use their feedback to iterate. Standard startup stuff.

You'll have some pirates, but those will mostly be people who are good at the Raspberry Pi, not people like my uncle, who can turn on a laptop, but find computers tedious and prefer to spend their energy strumming, knob-twiddling, looking for people to rehearse with, etc. In fact, your pirates will help spread the word to musician friends.

After that part is covered, you can get into the marvelous flexibility of software synthesis! But again, make it easy for musicians. You won't want them to have to learn a new skill, such as RPi, just to use your synthesizers!!!
An effective UBI would require some sort of universal healthcare system, which can be wholly public, or a basic public system with a private system on top, to take care of the differences in need between different people.
>If class is simply a de facto consequence of the fact that not everyone is exactly the same (God forbid)

Except class is (mostly) hereditary.
In Memorium: Roger Faulkner, Unix Pioneer
Gravity doesn't play into it much any more; semaphore signals are increasingly rare by this point, certainly on any main line. Modern electric signals simply default to danger in the absence of contact to the signal box, and fail-safe behaviour is maintained by the rule book stating that a signal displaying no aspect is equivalent to a signal displaying danger.
Oh, cat litter with perfume.
Private/Federated blockchains are just applied cryptography, which is not the same as the technology behind bitcoin; blockchain & proof-of-work.
I interpreted it as saying you can train inspiration to arrive, just like anything else, with enough discipline.
The thing you want to do with the pi is turn it into a euro rack hardware digital synth, http://www.csounds.com/journal/issue18/eurorack.html
4 euros per liter is crazy. In the US, even the cheapest crappy olive oil is $20/liter
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One fast vaccine strategy could protect against Ebola, H1N1, and more
Indeed, but one was three hours ago, and another was only 2 hours ago.
The concept of a sandboxed app is to run non-unix philosophy monolithic "and the kitchen sink" applications that are not integrated with the system.

In that way there's not going to be much FLOSS interest. No one in FLOSS-land wants to admin a box with seven different statically linked SSL libraries all of different ages and different vulnerability exploits all relying on the app vendor as a single point of failure as the only source of non-FLOSS binary packages. FLOSS devs could "improve" the sandbox system by having the OS provide one patched up to date and secure SSL library for all applications to dynamically link to. Being FOSS this is not a legal problem and the OS vendor existing means one person on the planet has to be "in charge" of it and it'll just work for everyone. It doesn't work so well with commercial closed source non-FOSS vendors. Oh well. Sucks to be them. I don't miss them.

Or, how does "does one thing and does one thing well and interoperates with all the other finely honed tools" FOSS philosophy match with a sandboxed app architecture? It seems the opposite, the purpose of the sandbox is to create a NIH monolithic app. If I wanted to run windows, I'd just run windows, not emulate its architecture on a unix-like system. It seems like a lot of work to turn linux into windows... why not just use windows and not mess up linux?

The pool of FLOSS sandbox devs would be restricted to FLOSS devs who want to shoot FLOSS in the foot to make life easier for non-FLOSS devs and harder for everyone else, and disagree with core beliefs of FLOSS philosophy of design and architecture. Other than that lack of motivation, no problem.
Six things computers (and people) must do in order to be considered intelligent
It's a public key, if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, how is this a lot of dependencies?

babel-core, babel-loader, babel-polyfill, babel-preset-es2015 and babel-preset-react can be considered one dependency (it's babel...).

react and react-dom are another.

webpack, the dev server, and 3 webpack plugins can be considered a 3rd.

That's 3 "real" dependencies. If that's a lot, then i'd love to see a "real" minimal setup.

Just because javascript dependencies tend to take the unix philosophy to the extreme doesn't mean that each of those should be treated equally.
"Amateurs Practice Until They Get It Right; Professionals Practice Until They Can’t Get It Wrong"
Exclusion from the Mapped Physicality Database [fiction]
> Yeah because that access to the single EU market will come for free...

If the choice is between tariffs paid by importers, and danegeld paid by taxpayers, I know which I'd pick.
For some but not all.

Odd how for some users the comments don't show up at all.

This is a good resource and it does highlight some chilling effects.

jinglewoof has no comment history even with showdead on, but other users have their comments preserved.
The BLS only counts the people who aren't in prison, and are over 16 as the Labor Force participation rate. You aren't counted if you are thought of by employers as too young or too old to work; so there are a substantial number of seniors who aren't counted because they aren't in the labor force according to the BLS.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

> Employers think they are too young or too old,
:groan:

I have four of these little repos now, all forked from each other, all with that spelling mistake, no doubt.
the difficult of technology's distinguishing between "building stuff to make the world better" and "chasing nickels".

I don't think it's super complicated. It just became complicated as people that were decidedly not making the world better wanted the cachet of doing so.

To me: unintentional positive externalities are still unintentional. Rationalizing profiting as a societal good basically makes someone the devil.
> I have never understood people aligning their lifestyle to their limits.

It's almost as if people enjoy luxuries.

I assume you live in a rented bedroom and eat mostly packaged ramen while saving 90% of your take-home pay?
It's really good!

I have using it for over 6 month and have very few problems.

Google Play Store works normally.
Push Notifications in WhatsApp/Telegram etc. work normally.
Cell/wifi coarse location works well.

The install procedure is a bit involved, but quick if you got it.

The Google Maps API / Widget replacement is not fully featured or compatible with all Apps.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068536
Business and close personal relationships, whether friends or family, tend to not mix well
I took JP's class a few years ago at Iowa, great guy and really passionate about HCI for kids. He is fairly active via emails, you might want to get in touch with him there if you wish to donate.
So, what's the news, really? Other than it's cool to offer $70K minimum to everybody (which is probably ain't much for Seattle)
Even as Doctors, Women Get Slapped with the Pay Gap
Doesn't Google OWN Niantic? So now Google has access to our Google data? Don't see the issue.
"Coinbase feels more and more like PayPal"

Of course the difference being that if you need to use PayPal for a transaction and if PayPal rejects you you have no recourse, however if you need bitcoins and if Coinbase rejects you you have many Bitcoin exchanges to fall back to. That's what a distributed system and economy is all about :)

PS: maybe your IP is wrongly geolocated in Iran?
Is there any reason why those 8 locomotives have to form a single train? Can't they just have 8 seperate trains?
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Show HN: Bask: a task runner for bash
Well if Theranos continues on its current trajectory, it's going to crater. Maybe then the perfect opportunity for Errol to step in and say Ms. Holmes, lets tell your side of the story.
the ability to embed an array of micro-cameras of adequate quality between pixel rows of an LCD is surely only a few years away.
Can we link to the actual Tweet instead of the mobile version please? https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/752398314528731137
We all know that having no babies isn't sustainable in the long term. Having babies is an extremely important social function, that most developed societies are leaving behind.

I'm not advocating for the French model (I do advocate the Swiss model), but to dissect it and try to adopt what works, ignoring what doesn't.

Of course, sometimes they're two sides of the same coin, so you can't have the cake and eat it too.
> But it doesn't mean the 10x difference was due to the agent

The value added by the real estate agent is not selling the property, but selling it quickly at the highest possible price. The opportunity cost to the seller of a $10 million property sitting on the market an extra month is 10x higher than for a $1 million property. So it's not unreasonable to pay the agent more. It's certainly not "shady."

Of course, if you think you can sell the property in the same time frame with a less-qualified agent, nothing is stopping you from negotiating a lower percentage fee.

> usually, the same price can be achieved without paying 10x as much, but various factors keep the market out of equilibrium.

Those being? The real estate industry is incredibly competitive, especially now with Redfin, etc.
>People want to be able to rely on the community and the companies behind a technology.

Like Oracle and Java? /s
Can someone explain why I should use Elixir instead of Erlang? I haven't used either, but from a very high level it seems that Elixir has a "magic" syntax like Ruby, where as much as possible is hidden from the user, whereas Erlang has a much clearer and more concrete syntax. Even though Erlang's syntax is not standard or traditional, as someone who's used neither neither language, I find it much easier to read and understand exactly what's happening.
Brain-Powered UI: psychological engagement
Remember, the lawsuit isn't over the plan to pay all employees $70,000. It's a dispute between two cofounders, one long-departed, over executive compensation and profit sharing. There's also a dispute over the timing: Gravity claims the suit was filed after the minimum-salary announcement, but Lucas claims the suit was known by all parties to be in the works before the plan was known.
I've re-written a bunch of fuel quantity calculation software for a small airline, the degree of planning and verification that went into that totally blew my mind, it completely changed my way of thinking about writing any piece of software and even now I have to catch myself not to 'overthink' the solution to some problem.

As soon as there are lives on the line the amount of thinking about undefined situations skyrockets. Even so, given that the system fails 'positive' (as in: it can't register 'no train' when there is a train, it can only register 'train' when there is none) I'm quite impressed with the foresight to even think about that exact possibility occurring.

Another field where you see this kind of planning is in medical electronics and software systems.
> Not all immutable data structures can be made as efficient as mutable ones. Usually they are as fast as mutable ones,

I don't think this is true. Clojure uses immutable persistent data structure under the hood, just as most functional languages do, and devs often jump through hoops to circumvent them for performance reasons, opting instead for bit bashing like most other languages.
Uh, well gosh. Did you have this comment below on your HN profile before or after the above conversation?

"[...] if you notice that I have been hell-banned, just let me know so I can delete my account from this shithole."

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonsterling

I'm probably not the first person to suggest this to you, but I've found that what I get from a community/workplace/neighborhood/family has a lot to do with what I put into it.
Ask HN: How to learn augmented reality?
After playing Pokemon Go, I've become interested in learning AR. As an iOS developer, I'm not sure whats the best way to approach this? Hardly anything exists on this topic. Does anyone know any books or courses that can help?

Thanks
If you dig into the story, Gravity claims that the payrate increase actually resulted in revenue growth, productivity growth and reduced churn. They did lose some senior staff but overall it was actually an improvement for the company.
I totally misread the link and wondered, as I waited for the page to load, why people named Dieter would flock to Instagram.
> France has one of the highest fertility rates in the developed world,

Not by much, and it's still not enough to renew generations.
My personal anecdote to illustrate the difference: I've worked on a python app before which had a bug that sometimes made the websocket closed callback throw an exception. The exception was still being caught by the framework, so the system kept working fine.

...or did it? Eventually, we noticed instances of the app locking up, not responding to any request. There was no obvious error, it just kept running but did not log or do anything. It turned out to be due to the callback bug: the exception was being caught alright, but we were leaking file descriptors like a sieve and eventually running out. Due to this a minor bug affecting only some requests was able to take down the entire app.

That's the kind of problem Erlang solves well. Every request runs in its own lightweight process. The process can open (and thus own) files, sockets, OS processes, in-memory DB tables, etc. If the process crashes or dies for any reason, its memory and any other resource it owned gets cleaned up by the VM. If the process tries to hog the CPU or even enters an infinite loop, the preemptive scheduling means other requests will still get a chance to run.

In short: having strong isolation between processes means it's unlikely for a bug in a minor feature somewhere to affect the overall application health.
That's a lovely quote. Passing that on to my pianist friend.
I have to question if you've ever done a SF -> Silicon Valley commute. There's always traffic, and the Caltrain station is inconveniently located for most of the city, which means you need to tack on time to get there. Additionally, most SV offices aren't that convenient at the other end.
recently when the article was written (which was in 2001)
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The systems with these limitations are mostly 1970s systems based on 8-bit microcontrollers, so I strongly suspect that they're using 8-bit integers.

And yes, there are concerns about modulo behaviour, but this ultimately is an engineering trade-off: what is the probability of losing exactly 2^8 axles from a consist?
Why Tronc's ridiculous plan to produce 2,000 videos a day is doomed
Yes, security theater...except coincidentally as we in the US massively ramped up our rate of imprisonment. our crime rate went drastically down. For those who don't remember the 70s and 80s it is understandable to wonder why so many people are in jail when there is so little crime. Oddly, removing criminals from society lowers crime in society
Yes, I went to a sushi restaurant that was honest enough to list it on their menu. I only ordered one piece because I was aware of the reported digestion issues, but it was delicious and I had no distress later on.
Thanks for the code sample! Will give it a try.
Some of these are actually quite funny. Its like the person knew they were getting banned after their comment and were indirectly saying goodbye before slamming the door. Not sure if it makes sense.
> I dislike bullies

Torvalds doesn't display any bully-like behaviour here. One has to be careful when labelling.
Is there a way to sign in to my account on the Android app, take a bunch of pictures of my food, then sit at my computer to do all the typing while looking at the photos I just took?
Am I the only one who read this url as "adamEEVIE.tumblr.com" ?
Agreed. I think the ship has sailed on the term "blockchain" and it no longer requires decentralization. It means a signed transaction log which can't be secretly forged. Not as sexy as bitcoin, but language is fluid and I think the definition has shifted.
> How much would a gamer pay for the Nintendo NX app? $50? $100?

I doubt most users would pay anything at all. It's essentially just an app-store in an app-store. How much would you pay to download Steam?

But keeping all their content inside a Nintendo NX app would be a great idea. When I went to download Pokemon GO, I wasn't sure which was the correct app, there were tons with similar names, and the top one was by "Niantic", when I was expecting to see Nintendo. You're never really sure these days if an app will be good, or sometimes even if you're downloading the right one. But people trust the closed Nintendo ecosystem, or at least I do, I feel I could pick any game at random in one of their major IP's, and it would be at least an 8/10.
>Not sure what's being selected for

Latex allergy
Thank you for the quick anwser. I understood your answer to my first point, but, if you know, can you clarify the answer to my second question?
If the bank fails, and my account in the bank, where I manage my investments, gets deleted.. where all my investments goes to? How can I manage them?
It's hard to figure out how someone would try out or play with the list of notes about paper beyond submitting a pull request. That doesn't seem like the sort of thing "Show HN" envisions, e.g. some code that automates creation of a similar repository by other people.

Good luck.
Seriously? You're promoting an article written by you, pitching you, for your benefit? This is called spam.
I sometimes both downvote and reply when I feel that it would be helpful. At other times, the comment is self-evident as to why it was downvoted (and/or already has replies from others) and a reply only adds noise instead of signal. The signal I'm adding is "-1 fake internet points".
"Snap is the equivalent of static linking". So why not statically link? Encouraging software to work with static linking would be helpful for unikernels also.

With delta compression, I think my weekly updates on Arch are at least 200MiB, not even counting particularly large packages. Over a month, nearly half the system is replaced. For static linking (or equivalent) to be practical for those of us with limited bandwidth connections there would need to be some excellent cross-binary delta compression. In some situations it is useful, but for a general purpose system I think shared libraries make more sense.

OpenPandora's PND system is another example of prior art.
http://pandorawiki.org/Introduction_to_PNDs
"SF proper has 70% of "silicon valley" tech jobs"

...that post on HN Who's Hiring. Big difference (biased towards newer companies) compared the the Bay Area tech industry as a whole. For instance, I'd bet that Google (Mtn View) + Facebook have more job postings any given month than the whole HN Who's Hiring post. And that's not counting eBay, Cisco, Apple, LinkedIn, Tesla, etc etc etc.
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They no longer own them. They were spun during the housecleaning before the Alphabet announcement.
> In this case, the CEO was acting in a way that is favorable to his employees' interests, but detrimental to the interests of the shareholders.

That's debatable. You'd have to set up a number of companies side-by-side in order to establish whether or not paying everybody such a high wage would lead to one or the other group of companies doing statistically better for their shareholder in the longer term.

I can see all kinds of reasons why paying employees more might actually work out to be a benefit in the longer term.

> Given that the CEO legally has a Fiduciary duty to the shareholders to protect their best interests, I can understand the brother filing suit.

Can we please stop perpetrating that myth?
It's probably worth linking to the prior discussion re: the Github repo itself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048945
>> a decentralized court system.

Decentralization denies the nature of courts. Courts exist to do those things that the market and the mob cannot. Heaven help the litigant who, while in all reality an upstanding person who has done no wrong, must now have his fate decided by popular vote. Why bother with laws. Just put every issue to the vote and let the one with the most twitter followers win.

Courts are where we go when democracy fails. They are where you go when what you want isn't necessarily what everyone else wants of you.
Nothing you said is entirely true. It's certainly true if you look at it from a quarterly-earnings perspective. But there's no reason that a company paying out 100% of earnings to its employees can't outperform a company paying out less year-over-year.

You do need committed investors, but even if you have investors cashing out it may be better for the company that they leave when you look at things on a 5-year or longer timescale.
UK will also remain a member of the Council of Europe, a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, will probably have a Switzerland-ish deal on European trade, and will likely opt-in to a lot of European projects like the ESA and science funding/cooperation.
1. Google no longer owns Niantic, they spun off as their own company last year.

2. The security risk isn't that Niantic is going to turn evil, it's that Niantic becomes an access point for other (evil) hackers.
> another example is most governments' refusal to believe that education has a massive ROI

Any education or education in specific fields or courses of study?