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Founders that sell are very much aware of this fact. If they're selling it's either because they have no choice, or because they don't believe in said vision. In the end, unless you have a strong contract that protects users with the threat of a fork, like being based on a distributed open protocol, or an open source license, it's all just bullshit and marketing, whereas aligning with your users interests is only temporary.

I also think there's an inherent lesson for users here, more than it is for founders: don't trust startups, most of them won't survive and won't have the decency to die either, preferring instead to sell your account and data to the highest bidder.
> Therefore, some drugs shouldn't be available without heavy restrictions.

In ideal world, yes. But in reality this is not possible, because people will always find a way to get substances they like to use or abuse.
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The one to read is from Jorge Stolfi, professor of computer science and knowledgeable cryptocurrency critic:

https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-batsbzx-2016-30/batsbzx20163...
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I think you are missing what Papers writing is about (or maybe I am misunderstanding you)

Sure it depends on age I never said it wouldn't. Just like they need to be able to handle an instrument to learn to play it children of course needs to be able to have some basic skills to do programming.

Papers writing isn't about infants learning to program it's not even about toddlers. It's about children in school and how they can use programming as a tool for creating, tinkering and thinking by using the computer as a simulator to simulate things that they internalized (like playing ball, running down hill, throwing stones).

It's not about creating production ready code.

My oldest son who is now 7 has been doing something called number stories in math for some years it's not far from computer program construction. Last year he did some basic programming in the way of number solving.

I simply don't understand this weird obsession with keeping kids from being exposed to programming I don't see what it's based on.
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That might feel a little different, and surely is convenient and in some cases even essential. I feel the difference in penetration is just because it's easier to provide mobile phone access than it is to provide broadband/wired connection. Of the people that don't have internet, I bet they don't have landlines or broadband TV either.

Mobile phones are just incomparable to the advances the internet has brought. The internet put the whole world into high speed mode.

When mobile phones started coming out, they were just something rich people spent too much money on. Most people I know bought their first mobile phone when it became less than $200. When the internet became accessible on mobile phones (and I mean really accessible, not just loading slow terrible UX websites on nerdy HTC Windows Phone palmtops like I had), suddenly even the middle class spent upwards of $800 on their phones.

That to me signals how important they feel it is to be connected, not just one to one, but to the entire net. The smartphone is a device that connects you to the internet in a convenient manner, that it's a mobile phone is secondary to that from my perspective.
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I'll keep posting this until I see someone else on HN posting itbtoo: Flow batteries are here now, cheap, and work well. They don't have the power density of the Tesla batteries, but for residential and light industrial use they work well.
I feel like all these newfangled slack/whatever bots fall into two categories: stuff that used to be or would otherwise be a (toy) IRC bot, and what basically amount to annoying phone support menus, in text form. Not impressed.
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True. We were unable to reset expectations on the fly and had to meet our original commitment. Interesting observation.
Depends on what you're after :)

Electron or QT for cross-desktop apps,
Angular & Ion framework for cross-mobile apps,
React & React-native for cross-mobile apps
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I had an 87 pickup and 87 tercel. The engines will last forever, but rust is the killer on the truck. Currently have a 2005 Tacoma and it is rust free (plastic wheel wells) but even it has a recall for rusty suspension.
Also, check out the paper here:
https://zacinaction.github.io/docs/KickSat_SmallSat.pdf
For some that would be a sad development. Certain able gamers depend upon a sliding scale of difficulty, and at the lower end it could be a slightly interactive movie like experience. Casual players too may prefer a simpler and story focused experience. Requiring a lot of branching and variation may limit story depth.
Here in Australia power utilities are private but regulated. They still want to kill solar because their networks aren't designed to cope with it - the cost structure is all wrong.
Fact: Science needs peer review. (well...kinda fact, there's arguments against)

Fact: This costs money

Fact: Private industry doing things works well in many markets

Fact: It's arguable art is a human right. It's why we live, compared to science that allows us to live.

Napster and science are similar. You can argue in a better world the markets could be better done, but you seem to me to be denying things we know....

Someone has to pay to organise peer review. Is it crazy the 'cost' of this is so high, perhaps. But it's not "Science isn't Napster".
Not a library per se, but HTML+CSS+JS. Bootstrap or some other mobile responsive framework. Works on just about every device&OS. Phone gap or similar if you really need native.
You now have the "favorites" function, with which you can publicly mark articles.

Perhaps a rank of the most favorite articles would do that.
There are plenty of hedge funds that do this already, sometimes they put up a blog post. Sometimes they simply "talk their book". To the degree that informed investors own the stock, the stock will or won't react.

An example of a short thesis which the market has judged to be baseless despite the hype: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-dish-network-kerrisdale-id...

Institutional investors have held onto DISH stock since, because while Dish may not be doing great, it is not failing for the reasons Kerrisdale has pitched.

The predatory sort of shorting - pumping and dumping, is most common in penny stocks or stocks heavily owned by retail investors. These "investors" don't do their own research, they don't read 10-Ks, and they believe every little thing they read on the internet.

An example of a stock which has been pumped and dumped for years is ORMP: http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/ORMP

In the aggregate I believe that short sellers serve a useful purpose, adjusting valuations down for stocks which do not merit their current price.
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The irony is that I started to use WhatsApp only 2-3 months ago after learning they are doing end to end encryption. Oh well, guess it's time to uninstall it.
Honestly suprised that Craigslist doesn't embrace people interfacing with them via an official API; yes, I know lots about CL, but the after bring on (forgot his name) they changed their back an a lot and a bit on the front too.
Kind of expected that you would be able to search all of GitHub there but it seems to be limited to selected libraries and your own repos? Also, surprised that C is not supported..
Personally I'm using GitHub's code search to discover dumps of code and docs for random Chinese hardware (SBCs and such). I've found it much easier than trying to find SDKs on Baidu's file sharing site (Baidu Pan).
That's quite an unusual selection of districts! From Charlottenburg to Tegel to Friedrichshain and Neukölln? I can't even guess what they have in common.

I didn't know that many people used eBay Kleinanzeigen for apartments. Good to know.
A major problem it wasn't. We could not care less about it. If anything, it was just how things were. We tool it for granted, and we didn't have much difficulty with it.

A major movie/sitcom trope, yes.
I also think that there's a big difference between distributing illicit copies of a work and plagiarising it for profit. The first might be considered market failure but the second most certainly is not.
Or horror movies -- the killer has cut the phone lines! We can't call the police!
As we reach a point where the science fiction genre can be merged with fiction, I would just like to point out my appreciation for the many authors that spent the time to open the cans of worms and tell stories of their implications. This article makes me thinkof Daniel Suarez's Influx. And only a decade ago, I thought it was weird that Neal Stephenson's snow crash had an entire subclass of people delivering pizzas, but now with Uber eats and foodera, except that they deliver anything and everything.
Well, Bitfinex used it, but in a very stupid way.
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I have tried many but always turn back to qt.
It has bindings for whatever language, compiles for any platform and the documentation is superb.
Phones are important but without the internet they are just phones. Even with GPS, you would have to carry the whole world (or a significant amount of it where you live) as a map within your phone. Early pre-"Smart Phone" PDAs did exactly that (with external GPS receiver).

Information wise, Google changed everything. There was a before, where you the information was there, but you couldn't find it and an after, where almost every information you want is easily reachable.

Wikipedia is also an important milestone, but without proper search (just compare the internal search to Google) it would be a fraction useful.
In my opinion, you're a monster if you impose using a certain product on your environment.
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A running joke for me is the healthcare providers which are worried whether our firm will use "a database" which "could be hacked" instead of, to make up something which clearly has never been said by anyone regulated in the United States, saving all patient information as drafts in the office manager's hotmail account.
That's kind of like saying phones are important, but without electricity they'd just be aluminum bricks.
I had access to the Internet long before I got a mobile phone, and it was fascinating, but it didn't rock my world in the same way. This was the Internet before HTTP, browsers and search engines: email was store-and-forward via UUCP (look it up), files were stored in FTP, indexing was via Gopher, and access to it all was via pay-per-minute long distance dial up to girlfriend's mom's account at a VAX box at a university using, erm, borrowed credentials. Using the trusty old card index at the local library was both faster and had much higher bandwidth, and things only really started to change when Mosaic and Alta Vista arrived on the scene.

I agree that smartphones are another revolution of comparable magnitude, but that started less than ten years ago: we don't even have a first fully-grown up post-smartphone generation yet.
The examples in your second paragraph are not made-up scenarios; they're real needs caused by faulty power grids or large-scale disaster-management requirements. For those it makes sense to compare the costs of different off-grid power sources.

Your first paragraph, and the post I replied to, aren't like that. Is someone looking to buy a generator because they just want one, or "something may happen", or do they actually suffer from power outages? As for survivalists, most of what they do is based entirely on their beliefs and world-view rather than verifiable facts, so they're a perfect example of what I'm talking about. (I'm not saying they shouldn't do what they're doing; so long as they're not hurting anyone I think they should be free to believe what they want and act accordingly. I'd just like them to be honest, with themselves and others, about why they're preparing to be self-sufficient.)

BTW, I'm pretty familiar with the faulty power grid scenario. Even in my very densely populated neighborhood all of the houses on my street and one or two others used to loose power during every big storm, because for years the electric company just patched the lines that kept getting knocked down by tree movement instead of fixing the problem. Some of my neighbors had generators, and it became common to have a network of extension cords criss-crossing the street for a few days after a storm. Solar would have been pretty useless, since it's usually not sunny during big storms.
Interestingly if the price is falling that's motivation to not buy. Why install solar today when it will be cheaper tomorrow?
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Don't forget also that Steve Jobs got booted out of Apple.
Qt has a truly pleasant API and bindings in many languages. If you haven't used it before - and I know you haven't, otherwise you wouldn't be asking :) - give it a try. There's very little that's more cross-platform.
Sorry as another commenter pointed out, 30 years ago was a bit too late, add another 10 years. 40 years ago Japanese TVs and cars were complete knockoffs. They did the same stuff China is doing today. "Partnerships" and then suddenly suspiciously similar designs.

> China and Japan are nothing alike and any comparisons would be entirely irrelevant

My point isn't that China will follow the same steps as Japan. My point is that you couldn't predict Japan's trajectory - first people said they made crap knockoffs and exploited American free trade deals to dump prices, then when they started innovating, everyone said they were going to take over the world, and then suddenly Japan stagnated.

My only prediction is that China's future is just as uncertain, and any predictions are completely pulled out of anyone's ass.
Hammers are that impressive when you already have a rock that can do the job just as well.

Yet people still prefer hammers over rocks..
Sidetone, but I find it a bit rich that The Independent is going all high and mighty about privacy and sharing data, when they have the most atrocious ad and tracking experience I've seen on a media site in a long time.

Ghostly found 40 trackers http://imgur.com/a/miilB, the ads are extremely obnoxious. There's literally ads on top of ads sliding down my screen, pushing the content around. https://gfycat.com/InsecureHealthyAurochs

Those in glass houses...
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Well, I do. There is a whole host of problems and issues associated with it. One is that the border is a murky legal area, US Constitution is not completely applicable there, and the laws that do work are not sufficiently known to the public.
My theory about that is that once crime starts going down, people become even more "averse" to it. I.e. it ceases to become a day to day thing, and consequently people want to avoid it even more. Sort of the inverse of desensitizing.

Though, to be fair, I'd posit that it should balance out after a while. Once people start noticing that their fear is unwarranted, they'll start becoming more comfortable.
Different kind of stranger relation. Renting with its information asymmetry has a huge potential for creating distrust. Did the landlord hide how nasty the neighbors are? Will the tenant vandalize the apartment?

Backpacking/couchsurfing is much more lightweight.
React (Native). You can build an iOS and android app with the same codebase. Even windows phone and ubuntu are starting to support it. Then when you want to use the web, your whole data layer can carry over to reactjs. It's a really nice way of doing things. There's even react native for Mac OS that someone has started.
There is also swing and javafx if you want to use jvm.
funny thing is, liberals means everything and its contrary in US society. Here you're talking about neoliberalism. You could have called them conservative as well, from what I see.

Also, the attempt to divide harm into physical and emotionnal harm and saying that physical harm is worse than emotionnal harm which is supposedly normal and needed, is just bullshit. You've got to go past dualism. The question is not wether you harm someone or not but to which extent the person is harmed, and if the answer should be to adapt your behavior so as not to harm others or if, in said case, it's the person that has to adapt in order to not feel harmed.

That is, saying all black people are being assisted by society may harm a black person's feeling, so, should the black man not give a fuck and let such hateful and totally nonsense speech spread, or should the person who said that adapt his behavior and keep such nocive thoughts to himself as well as get an proper education ?
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Yes, and that's what you do if you, knowing 99.9999% of people use whatsapp, force your friends/family to install something else. So, use whatsapp, and don't be a monster.
Really? Because tons of articles are posted multiples times -- to the point that people post comments with links to previous HN discussions of the same article, to help others get the whole picture.

And judging from the content of the article, which I'm first reading now, I don't see how anybody would think that the axe the article grinds is not legitimate.
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Depending on the type of UI, you could also give Kivy a try.
https://kivy.org/

It's python based, and really easy to get going.
It does have it's quirks, but overall I found it a joy to use.
I definitely remember using the phone at the bar I used to hang out at to call home to check my messages on my answering machine to find out where everyone else was planning to be. Or just walking around to familiar places to see if anyone was around. Life was a ton better living that way honestly. People were certainly more real. Now whenever I am around people I find they are compulsively checking their phones for messages and barely present in the moment at all. It's like... now everyone is always somewhere else. Another weird thing about cell phones is that in the pre-cell phone pre-internet era people did not take very many pictures of themselves and taking pictures at a party was kind of a special thing but certainly not the focus of everyone's activity all the time the way it seems to be now. I think it was more fun to just take pictures every once in a while and then have that interesting experience of getting film developed to find out how the pictures turned out. Memories stuck more then.
A screenshot would really help in easily understanding this.
I do exactly that. My phone has no data plan. I download the local area in Google Maps app when I'm on wifi, then I can use it for navigation without a data connection.

I personally do not find the cost of a data plan to be worth it. For anything urgent there's SMS or voice calls. Everything else can wait until I can get on wifi, which is really not much of a hurdle, any hotel lobby, coffee shop, etc. will have it.
I did expect it, but I'd still rather pay with money.
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+1, because I had the urge to say the same thing.

I think the question needs to be a lot more specific about the type of app and the platforms it needs to run on. Web-based applications give you the broadest reach for the lowest cost if you can assume internet connectivity and if the GUI that's possible from within the browser sandbox is sufficient for your needs. (Capabilities are growing all the time, but it's still not the same as native.) If your app needs to be offline, it's still possible with web tech but it's harder to justify, unless you're doing a hybrid of online and offline and the online part isn't just service calls.
It's not literal. It's a comment about culture, not actual DNA.
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Are you really implying that someone would store a wallet key to a million bitcoins on one single hard disk? Hardly anyone could be this stupid, let alone the creator of Bitcoin.

I think it is much more reasonable to assume that he fears for his life and about hacker attacks and that is why he takes every precaution possible to conceal his identity. People have killed other people for less money than a million bitcoins.
This observation is anecdotal, IMHO. I very clearly remember waiting on people to show up on time before the Internet, more often than not. There's a reason that "guy sitting on the bench waiting for his date" was a meme even before communication became easier.
Whatsup was sharing info with Facebook months ago. I remember seeing a Watchapp contact as a friend recommendation on my Facebook profile. Other than that Whatsapp contact, we have nothing in common, no other way Facebook could have picked it up.
I don't think we are disagreeing. I was referencing pure text-based programming. I think if you extend programming to being things like specialized puzzles, etc. it is applicable to a much wider group of people and ages.
Personally, I think that there should be minimal dupes. Therefore, I felt the earlier submission which did not gain traction should be deleted from HN and/or merged. I'm not sure of the protocol.

I wasn't aware this came across as desperate for virtual points. I really don't care.
I don't thinks so. I believe that that is a different use of the word "app". That flag means "open this website and make it look like a native app", the "Chrome Apps" are extensions that use a different set of APIs.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but don't have any insider knowledge of this.
While I do agree that it is a bad time to invest in electricity generation business in general, an electricity consumer would invest in solar today because he has some saved money today, and it's the best ROI around. (Or wouldn't, if it isn't.) The price it may have tomorrow does not change the overall picture.
> Innovation requires creativity, critical thinking, outside the box thinking, etc etc etc... All things which China's PRC sees as a threat to their power so they squash it down

Look up the latest thread on the American education system. You'll find a large proportion of the comments claim that the same thing has been going on in America ever since education was socialized.

I live in Japan. By any outside measure, this country has zero critical or out of the box thinking, and has a complete groupthink culture. And yet it's been a major source of progress. I wouldn't count out human nature. Their biggest threat would be brain drain, but the US hates immigrants these days, which really plays in their favor.
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This was a good post because the car thing got my attention, but it turned to have a much broader wake of analysis behind it.

What do you think about the idea that broad-based, multi-sector automation will remove some of the essential challenges in life, and ultimately weaken cognitive abilities?

My logic is that as we increase our conveniences, our requirement for physical exertion diminishes and the average body mass grows. So, will the same thing happen to our minds - without the need to exercise them will their performance diminish?

If so, will that create a class of knowers and non-knowers, and if so who is responsible for non-knowers?

I read a lot of desperation in the comments here and elsewhere while at the same time believing generally that we live in a golden age (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12373014).