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It took years before multimedia took off—even though Bill Gates started pushing for it when Microsoft went public in 1986 (first CD-ROM Conference):

> we were pushing the idea of multimedia back in 1986 that didn't really catch on, you could say, until 1994 so before it was in the mainstream.

According to Randall E. Stross, not everyone saw CD-ROM's rise as a medium either: https://books.google.com/books?id=jrKwMK3raXoC&pg=PA71&lpg=P...

According to Stross above, even though Mac was technically advance, Sculley & Apple (Jobs left in 85'), missed out on the CD-ROM evolution as a trojan horse into the Home market (so did Manzi & Lotus). Microsoft (Robert Glaser) worked with PC, chips, and manufactures and faced many hurdles. I guess the breakthrough came when 486 came out.

As a teenager the mid-nineties, I remember how CD-ROM was this huge leap from floppy disks & cassettes—that's almost 8+ years after the first CD-ROM Conference. Right when CD-ROM is in full swing (1994), another medium was taking shape. The pace of format evolution picked up after that; from CD-ROM & multimedia to the Internet & multimedia—was something that definitely left Microsoft in the wake and gave rise to a sleuth of other powerhouse.

Looking back now, how Steve Jobs bet on MP3 and the Internet as another trojan horse into the Home market (for hand-held devices) makes everything comes full circle—took a page from Microsoft—no wonder why Gates was impressed.

* EDIT: grammatical & add commentary on 486
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Answering letters like this, while tedious, probably helps cement the path forward for a young child with the brain and curiosity for engineering.

This one was a bit late, obviously.
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> If they're selling it's either because they have no choice, or because they don't believe in said vision.

Or just because the price is right. Some may believe that they can do something even greater with the money, and some simply realize that a lot of money is the more attractive option for them. The latter may even have faith that the purchaser will keep the vision alive (and most will be disappointed in that respect).
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Presumably calling this number from a U.S. number (Verizon in my case) would incur lots of long distance charges, no?

EDIT: Just read the disclaimer:

> The call will be charged as an international call. Please check with your phone operator what your calling rates for France are. You may prefer to call from a special number (see if your country is on the list).
Does Japan get enough sleep?
Exactly, unfortunately there is a blantant lie in France, propagated by our politicians and most of the mass media, for more that twelve years.. Its about secularism implying that religious signs should be banned from the public space.. In fact it is exactly the opposite.

I just hope that the wise decision from the "conseil d'état" (roughly the french supreme court) ended this joke...

Apparently our politicians like Manuel Valls don't agree they want less and less freedom and human rights..

They're the first to show no respect to secularism, when they express public views regarding religions, publicly participate in religious events, and when they try to meddle with religions (ie: fondation des oeuvres de l'islam en france).

A lot of racist hypocrits only care about animal rights when it comes to the muslim ritual slaughtering, and the women's right but just about islamic clothing..
Today secularism is too often anti-muslimism in disguise..

Politicians want the votes from racists, and/or are too happy to divert us from their failure, betrayals, corruption, unkept promises etc.
In the recent past it definitely has seemed like AgileBits is struggling for revenue or looking at new and steady streams of revenue, which is where the subscriptions fit in.

Although AgileBits has had responsive customer service (not always necessarily the same as useful or good customer service), it has made at least one prominent mistake that it had to backtrack out of after a long time. One was putting 1Password on the Mac App Store (MAS) and saying it would be "MAS only" (like Pixelmator) and refusing to provide a separate AgileBits store option, with the justification that MAS simplifies things (it probably did remove some overheads) and that it didn't want to maintain its own store, payment processing, etc. What was hypocritical of AgileBits was that it still had to maintain its store, payment processing, etc., for its Windows version of 1Password. Many customers complained, and complained quite a lot, on their forums, but AgileBits' attitude and response were very poor and seemed downright obstinate. After a long time, AgileBits realized that MAS wasn't that great (not sure of the reasons) and brought 1Password (Mac) to its store while retaining MAS as an option.

The current push of a subscription model, while stating that standalone licenses continue to remain (although obscured on the site "to avoid confusion"), seems to be a repeat of history. The outcome is unknown at this point in time. Maybe a lot of people will find the subscription easier to use and force AgileBits to shutdown the standalone licensing model. Most people who belong to the consumer segment (those who do not make money with the software they use, like in the case of Adobe products) do not prefer subscriptions and like the flexibility of "owning software" (license) and having the freedom to choose when they would upgrade and at what price (in many cases waiting for some special discount sale).

Hopefully, AgileBits will remove the obscurity of the standalone licenses and provide it prominently, because the current scheme just doesn't fit with what AgileBits as a company always aims to be. It's too cheap of AgileBits to do something like this. Also hopefully, the subscription models will continue to be optional (with standalone licenses available at reasonable prices) and perhaps segmented differently (with lower price points?) to attract customers for specific features that are of value to them.

It would also be better for AgileBits to get into making other kinds of software applications instead of trying to squeeze more and more out of password management and shared password systems.

I'm an occasional 1Password user on Windows, but I switched most of my passwords to the built-in browser based password management (since I mostly use only one or two browsers). For some other purposes, I use KeePass and KeeWeb (though 1Password's browser extensions, where they work, are quite convenient). I personally don't see a lot of value in getting 1Password anymore, and as for a subscription, that would be inappropriately wasteful.
I apologise. I opened up the tab and read the first couple of paragraphs, then I wrote this comment.
I work on a cross-platform application that runs on both Windows and Mac.

We have a cross-platform library for business logic, and native Windows and Mac UIs.

The problem is that cross-platform UI libraries don't really let you fine-tune the UI. They're great for very rapid development with a basic, functional, UI.

If you get an "artiste" in product management, or you need to plug into Windows-specific and Mac-specific functionalities, you will need to use platform-specific UI libraries and keep your business logic platform-neutral.
Tk is antiquated (no antialiasing [1]) and has a poor look on Linux. It lacks functionality in widgets such as embedding a progressbar in a tree/list (don't remember) widget, which Qt supports. Also, poor font rendering support. (doesn't render Devanagari and probably CJK scripts). It feels like a 10 year old tech which it is.

(1) Maybe there is some option for it somewhere, but if so, having antialiasing disabled by default is weird.
I'm interested too as I drink 2-4 a day even on weekends but have sometimes gone without for random reasons like travel and stuff and I've never gotten withdrawals or even headaches.
134 calls since July 18? (And how many of those, I wonder, occurred in the last hour for which it's been on HN and accrued 81 points..)

So far I'd say it's probably not justifying it's cost/effort. I don't really understand why the Swedish one (which I understand to be the original) was made - but I understand clones even less. Is it just PR; does the tourism company behind it really think it will be effective?
After the Crimea takeover, the Swedish internet was filled with comments with very, very bad Swedish who defended Putin. There were some articles that interviewed the people in St Petersburg employed to write these comments.

The main difference with the Putin supporters today is that the Swedish language is excellent....

(And for a fact -- even in the ex communist party, few Swedes support starting wars in Europe again, in 1930s style. There are obviously lots of Putin propaganda online.)

Edit: Thanks, rbanffy. I saw a Swedish copy and others: http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/de-ar-putins-soldater-pa-na...
Yes and Yes. Signal also doesn't support encrypted backup, so if you change devices you have to export to plaintext.
I want to. But it took enough time to get the entire family using WhatsApp. We have so much history in those groups and conversations. I'd very much like to be able to change over (and when ads start creeping in, probably will just bite the bullet) but I really hoped it wouldn't come to this.

Oh well.

Edit: we started using WhatsApp many years ago before the FB purchase, when not only did iMessage suck for groups - oh wait, it still does - and text messaging was expensive, but we needed something stable and cross-platform. WhatsApp delivered on all of that, where iMessage was decidedly iOS only, BBM kept reaching its hand out of the grave but not for long, and Google offerings were impossible for 75 year old relatives to understand. I still like WhatsApp, and the server tech is tops. Too bad it's going this way.
Do you remember if this was with C++ or Python?
The speaker says, "dependencies are associated with the application (as they should be) rather than with the system"

That's certainly a practical strategy, but it reduces flexibility/modularity. Go-lang shares the same strategy for deployment. Perhaps it was inspired by Java-users.
First, it is funny that you mention anonymous charity in the first line of your post because I think they provide a vehicle for that - Watsi.org. By the way, Watsi is by far my favorite startup to come out of YC. Go Watsi!

Next, my point was about Hacker News and not Y Combinator. But let's say the two are indivisible, I don't need to nit-pick.

I absolutely believe there are a variety of motivations for YC (personally, I'd love to hear all of them).

I don't think that was a "down-to-earth assessment," and I don't think that was the point. The point, to me, seemed to be to discourage malleable minds. People that may be at the edge in terms of powering through to the next stage with their idea, startup, etc. I see no value in this discouragement.

This isn't much better, but at least at can be cast as a dose of reality: https://medium.com/@subes01/this-is-your-life-in-silicon-val...

The author of the piece that I commented on originally seemed to be saying, "Get in line automoton." I reject that. I don't think it represents reality and I don't think it is useful.

Besides the slogging away is what makes you a fully formed person instead of an entitled child.

I have worked at numerous startups of all different sorts and in different capacities. It is precisely that experience, that slogging away that has given me a human perspective on work-life balance.
As the death of Adam Traoré, and Sarkozy aiming for presidential bid..

The question was about burqini, and you disgressed a lot..
Talk to a lawyer first re phone call recording. Seriously, you will be glad that you did.
>Also, even when used to high amounts of caffeine, it's really easy for me to get the jitters.

Oh yes, easily! When I drink too much coffee and try to browse my smartphone (i.e. facebook feed) it is really noticeable that my thumb is very shaky.

>I would stop if only I didn't LOVE the brew.

True. Although there is a crapload of bad coffee out there as well.
I work at a large CDN that also sells DDoS mitigation.

Firstly, we are built to endure any DDoS the internet has yet seen on our peering, backbone, and edge servers for CDN services. This is quite important when you are tasked with running a large percentage of the interweb but probably not practical for most organizations, mostly due to talent rather than cost (you need people that actually understand networking and systems at the implementation level, not the modern epithet of full stack developer).

But, it is critical to have enough inbound peering/transit to eat the DDoS if you want to mitigate it -- CDNs with a real first party network are well suited for this due to peering ratios.

Secondly, when you participate in internet routing decisions through BGP, you begin to have options for curtailing attacks. The most basic reaction would be manually null routing IPs for DoS, but that obviously doesn't scale to DDoS. So we have scrubbers that passively look for collective attack patterns hanging on the side of our core, and act upon that. Attack profiles and defense are confirmed by a human in our 24/7 operations center, because a false positive would be worse than a false negative.

Using BGP, we can also become responsible for other companies' IP space and tunnel a cleaned feed back to them, so the mitigation can complement or be used in lieu of first party CDN service.

In summary, the options are pretty limited: 1) Offload the task to some kind of service provider 2) Use a network provider with scrubbing 3) you've hired a team to build this because you are a major internet infrastructure.
I'm a customer that has purchased on multiple platforms, paid for upgrades, and recommended 1password to people in person and on social media. I don't ever want to sync my secrets to the cloud. Ever. A subscription model will permanently lose me as a customer.
Came here to post just this. It is an "academic" language, designed more for teaching than for any production use, but it has a good pedigree and I've had some fun playing around with it.
Where can the reviews be read and do they involve other vendors too?
Interesting service. Yeah, I could see you people getting attention. Love the homepage pic haha.
> The garage that does my annual safety inspection sticker happily rotates the tires for me.

Huh, we don't got that in my State.

Tire Rotations are typically bundled with the oil change. As far as I'm concerned (in the area that I live in), getting rid of oil changes doesn't do anything really. Still gotta go in for the tire rotation.

I mean, I do it myself manually. Because rotating tires is braindead easy to do, and oil changes aren't much harder. Frankly, tires are heavy and are the "harder" part of the job IMO.
This may be the article you referred to https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-...
Interesting.

Just looked up why Israel launches them retrograde (counter to the Earth's rotation which costs more energy to launch). It's so launch debris doesn't land in populated areas, it lands in the unpopulated Mediterranean instead. Make sense.

Also these fully orbit the earth in 90 minutes, so theoretically you could get more time-resolution out of retrograde orbiting satellites (though I'm guessing there are other benefits of going with the Earth's rotation).
There are many type of businesses that need to 'burn investor money' before income. Those investors can be (partly) the founders but when R&D of a product takes millions because of external factors then you cannot prevent spending only investor money at least until you have something to sell.
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I find 3 cups (24 fl oz) to be a sort of tipping point where if I have been drinking more than that I notice when I don't have any (no headache though). I try to make fairly strong coffee.
Yes, robots do the same in China as they do in the U.S.A., BUT you still have to pay a human to turn on the lights and start or stop the robots. In the U.S.A. it will cost you 4x more I am guessing for this person.

They are not just sticking to manufacturing. China holds the number one spot in Supercomputers as of June 2016 with Sunway TaihuLight, which displaced another Chinese supercomputer Tianhe-2. The Sunway also uses no U.S.A. hardware. [1]

China also just announced a 64-core Arm processor Phytium that if confirmed "will be the most powerful Arm server chip on the planet." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer

[2] https://www.top500.org/news/chinese-chipmaker-unveils-speedy...
No one gets enough sleep in my opinion. We should all embrace the 6 hour work day and give people more free time for creativity and relaxation.
If everything indicates that the curent work day is not good for people why aren't we changing anything? Oh right... we are all slaves.. that's why.
Should I have? We're talking about how people can dress. And how does terrorism factor into dress code, anyway? I thought HN was a site where we could dispense from the "x for the children" / "x against the terrorists" rhetorics.

This is the logic I'm getting from you - and please, do correct it if I'm getting it wrong: "Some terrorists are muslim. Muslim women wear hijabs. Hijabs therefore remind you of terrorism."

Need I really explain how that logic is harmful? Does arabic script remind you of terrorism too? What should we do about that?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/iv...

La France est une République indivisible, laïque, démocratique et sociale. Laïque. Laïcité works both ways - religion stays out of the government, and the government stays out of religion.

Edit:

> Maybe you drink his cool aid to fast

I stay out of french politics (american ones are just so much more entertaining right now) and I have no particular love for Hollande, but his response to the Paris attacks is burned into my mind because it was the first time in a long time I felt proud of my country and president.
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Please tell me exactly which algorithm, hyperparameters, processing chain and data sources are able to make better decisions than humans in ethical matters - reliably, consistently and with no regard to who is running the algorithm. What kind of questions do you want to answer and what kind of structure do you expect the answer to have?

You can't answer, because the candidate algorithms are trade secrets, "under active development" or can only be run when babysit by trained specialists? Then it's just a giant "Computer says no" where the implicit assumptions and biases of a relatively small group of humans sold as "objecive" or even "superhuman" by putting some layers of indirection between them and the public.
Can you provide some sources? Thanks.
Apparently french ambassadors are supposed to speak english.. Maybe I'll try, just to get some english speaking training..
In Death Valley you rather need more spare tires (if you go e.g. to Racetrack; seen a car that got 2 punctures at different locations). Otherwise high clearance is needed only if you go off-the-beaten track; even Titus Canyon is fine on a normal road vehicle.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11128756
Because the people it is targetting are so siloed, and so angry at the other side they don't really look past the information. The two sides that they are appealing to are not doing any sort of source evaluation on things that make a person they distrust look untrustworthy. They want that information to be true soooooooooo bad they are failing to do basic information literacy.
The "it can't be X because it's Y" claim, when Y does not exclude X, is such a common bogus argument that there is probably a name for the fallacy.
What you're describing now is essentially ISDS, not what I'm proposing.

First, the only way the US (or any other country) can "imprison" foreign individuals is if other countries agree to enforce its laws - something I don't support, but accept that it will inevitably happen because of military or economic alliances - and is in any case completely democratic. The US can directly only enforce its laws against companies that do business in the US - and the worse possible penalties are either confiscation of the company's assets, or prohibition of doing business in the country - so companies can individually decide whether to abide by US laws and do business in the US, or neither.

Second, "economic imperialism" is exactly what ISDS/trade agreements are - a countries' laws can be overruled by arbitrary international courts that have no relationship with the people of said countries. Instead, I'm proposing that countries would freely choose whether to collaborate with other countries or not, and there are many different choices - e.g. UK could choose not to do business with SA, because they discriminate against women, or they could choose to do business with SA, because they have common military goals, or they could say "we don't care" because they decide that they support international trade despite different value systems.
this going to let us “listen” to signals that have traveled lightyears much better than ever before. i think we’ll find there is life (intelligent) everywhere you look. that the universe is literally infested with life everywhere you look once you look correctly. And the notion that humans are the only intelligent ones around we'll be like the earth is flat.
> The establishment know that TPP is about national power - economically containing China by isolating it from major trading partners.

Can anyone explain how this works exactly? The most plausible explanation I've seen is that it can prevent China exporting counterfeits of American goods to Indonesia, for instance.

This presumes the Indonesian government is actually going to be proactive about enforcement. But while it may be a boon to some American companies I don't see how it causes China to be isolated. China is still free to export non-counterfeit goods. It's still free to export goods counterfeited from companies who lack the resources to pursue international enforcement. And quite frankly, it's still free to export the rest with an appropriate application of subterfuge.
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This is funny because the author is exactly right, but I think he's misidentified the poor coders. The folks he's complaining about are academic coders without a lot of commercial experience, which tend to make all of those errors.

He also nails it when he says "idleness is the source of much trouble"

In the commercial world, you code to do something, not just to code (hopefully). So you get in there, get it done right, then all go out for a beer. You don't sit around wondering if there's some cool CS construct that might be fun to try out here (At least hopefully not!) Clever code is dangerous code.

Good essay.
This is a rather poorly written article. The main premise seems to be that manufacturing is being automated, China is automating manufacturing by buying robots not made in China, and since robots have the same productivity everywhere, it doesn't make sense to manufacture in China since it can be done back in the US.

While saving labor costs is an important reason for moving manufacturing to China, there are other equally important factors as well. Access to a labor pool of workers that do higher level designing that cannot be automated, much lower local taxes (and even subsidies), proximity to other manufacturing centers already in China are just some of the other important reasons.

I wish journalists would do a little more research before writing inane articles with sensationalist headlines.