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I don't disagree, but I've gone the opposite way.
Just last week I replaced a 46" Samsung 1080p set from 9 years ago with a brand-new top-of-the-line Sony 4k set that has all this fancy AndroidTV stuff I neither knew I wanted nor really understood.

Thing is, it's the ONLY way I can get 4k content.
I have an HTPC, WDTV, AppleTV, FireStick, PS3, and TiVo all plugged into my receiver (which was a very high end unit just 1 year ago). However, while the receiver supports 4k, it does NOT support HDCP 2.2 which either is required for 4k content, or WILL be once they start using HDCP 2.2. (I'm not quite clear on this point.. I don't know if today's UHD BluRay discs use HDCP 2.2).

And I'd argue that the SmartTV stuff is not really a reason many people buy a TV; regardless, having it does not remove your ability to use external devices in the future. If Sony drops my AndroidTV apps in 4 years, it probably won't much matter because the devices of the future will do far more for $35 than the software on the TV.

It's a frustrating situation, but, IMO, the Smart TV stuff only adds value (unless you're talking about the microphone in my remote and the possibility of said devices being used to backdoor my network, of course).

I forgot to add, new things pop up all the time that you don't know you want until they arrive. I noticed Google Photos being advertised on TV. I gave it a go on my iPhone and notice a Google Cast button. I don't have any of Google's streaming devices yet, nor do I have an HDMI port free on my receiver to support another device. Well, I hit the button, and what do you know, it automagically knew all about my TV and displayed my pictures at the touch of a button. Sometimes having fancy new stuff is cool, and you get added features you never expected. I sure wouldn't buy a Google streaming device just for this one novelty, but I'm not going to complain about having it.
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It still feels like it'd make more sense to at least fork something existing (or better yet, find a desktop that doesn't mind BSD-specific conditional code inclusion). I mean, the one-base-system mentality doesn't preclude the BSDs from using gcc and/or Clang - even though they weren't developed for BSD specifically, they are clearly the best available choice.

I wonder why not Xfce, specifically. Of all the DEs out there, it seems most complete in a sense of being an actual DE, with the usual configurability and stock apps that one would expect (a great file manager, for one). But at the same time, it's not the mammoth that Gnome and KDE are, gets out of the way easily enough, and doesn't demand that applications are aware of its existence beyond following XDG specs.
The "concept" is planned obsolescence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
The Argentinian trick is basically:

1. let the grill get hot
2. rub with something to clean old grit
3. rub again with a chunk of fat (from the meat) for flavor

The "something" in step #2 has varied over the years. Back in the day, my grandpa used to use old newspapers... which of course we know today it's not such a great idea, heh. Onions, half a potato, a corn stalk, even a chunk of brick will do the trick. You just want to make sure you don't have old chunks of stuff clinging from the grill.
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Does anyone really need further evidence of "intelligent design"?
Huge crowds march in Venezuela to force recall of President Nicolás Maduro
Here's the crux of the memory issue from one of the link in the article:

DDR memory is laid out in an array of rows and columns, which are assigned in large blocks to various applications and operating system resources. To protect the integrity and security of the entire system, each large chunk of memory is contained in a "sandbox" that can be accessed only by a given app or OS process. Bit flipping works when a hacker-developed app or process accesses two carefully selected rows of memory hundreds of thousands of times in a tiny fraction of a second. By hammering the two "aggressor" memory regions, the exploit can reverse one or more bits in a third "victim" location. In other words, selected zeros in the victim region will turn into ones or vice versa.
I want my coworkers focused on creating business value and trusting that they'll be rewarded for that, not trying to figure out how to game the system to close the most tickets, write the most code, write the fewest bugs, get the most fake wiki edit points, or whatever "objective standards" I could come up with.

http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13

The "via leadership judgement" system absolutely has its flaws (including people trying to game that), but IMO it's the worst system to use, except for all the other systems we've tried.
That's the problem isn't it? The US's obsession with personal automobiles allows it to build these sprawling suburban ghost towns, only to realize in post-boom-times how terrible of a system it is.
I heard that too, but then I actually looked at the manual, and it's very simple to both enter and exit long mode.

As far as I know it's possible to do all that and have a very-mixed OS.
http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement

"In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month."
Hmm, I always do that, but now when I'm doing it I'll be thinking about Argentinian circus people. Definitely makes it better.
It is not free as in freedom, and it's not even "open source". The license does not allow modification, nor use outside using it for tarsnap's backup service.
As an example, the strut failure in the falcon 9 a while back didn't explode from the failure, that was the flight termination system that actually caused the fireball when things started going south.
Very much this. My grandparents can grab the regular old tv remote like they've been doing for 25 years and browse netflix on the tv like regular channels.

Convincing them to use a smartphone, search on the tiny screen, play, and then cast to their tv is impossible. I don't blame 'em.

I use Xbox One as a media center, works very well.
I had no idea this was a problem. I've been using those things for decades. O_o
Maybe this is due to Spotify starting to gain traction around that time? https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-08-01%202012...
You can spend your days writing code to track people and sell ads, or you can spend them writing code to do real stuff like factory automation, smart bombs, automated train control...

Bay Area jobs are all about the former. That isn't high impact.
Yeah, I'm in the US and I've yet to BBQ with someone that doesn't know this trick.
This is practically a startup, a service that just monitors and automatically updates your passwords as they get leaked over time.
Or ya know.. Use privacy tools like you do for the internet. Email is sent over unencrypted communications but there are plenty of ways to make it private.

What's with this "we need something new" instead of improving what we have? Ready to jump into another new cryptocurrency that promises the latest and greatest "blockchain tech"? I thought you guys said Ethereum was gonna be the next big thing
That sounds pleasant. Do you mind me asking where/how you put yourself out there for those kinds of recruiters to find you?
>the 11$ SoC they use for the smart features won't make the TV's cheaper

And that's the good news in all this.

I can buy and use the TVs of my choice and the reality is that I don't really need to pay a material premium because they have YouTube which may or may not continue to work after some day in the future. So I can choose to ignore those features if I want. It's not really a choice between buying SmartTV for $X and DumbTV (which is otherwise equivalent) for $X/2.
Jena Germany. <100k people. Four tram lines and 3 intercity rail stations.

American could have the same, even for rural areas. It's just been a matter of money, priority and the auto makers lobbying a lot to shift both of those two things.
Soundcloud launched in 2008. Spotify launched in 2008. Only a year or so after Facebook opened signups to anyone IIRC. Not exactly sure what the impact on Last.fm would have been but it evidently wasn't good.
How about Yout.com?
i like to use a lime/lemon. figure the acidity may help kill off some bacteria with the acidity and the vapor once the grill is hot.
But this isn't mutually exclusive, you are complicating a design for no reason, 99% of the people would never upgrade either, and if it's too complicated they wouldn't want to use it.

You can buy any add-on yourself they work with every TV you don't have to worry about brand compatibility or lockouts why ask the TV makers to make the market worse?
The minute that Sony or whoever starts selling dongles is the minute they block all other dongles from working on their TV's and everyone would do the same.

As for the TV remote thing this already works, HDMI-CEC is a protocol that allows you to send commands from the TV to the device via HDMI and virtually every TV I had for the past what almost 10 years with HDMI had the support for it. I have several streamers at home that all work with it without any issues.

Every TV is a dumb panel, removing the "smart" features from it won't make it any cheaper those SoC's are cheap as dirt, you gain nothing by removing it and you lose the simple crowd that doesn't want to add other devices and worry about setting them up or figuring how they work, they want to turn on the TV and click on netflix and that's it.

When it comes to the point where it doesn't work anymore they have the choice to buy a dongle or buy a new TV they do not have to do it and there is no commercial trickery or anything that forces them to buy a new TV over a Chromecast or a Roku or Firestick or w/e.
> In my experience, it's HR that stands in the way of employee satisfaction (whether that's salaries, or flexibility in various benefits, or whatever). You'd think they're there to be the champions of the worker in the corporation, but it seems to actually be just the opposite.

I also thought the same thing, but a month or two into my first job quickly dispelled that illusion. HR is for the benefit of the company, not the employee.
Singapore. Kula Lumpa, Malaysia. London DLR. Parts of the London underground. Almost all American airports (Atlanta comes to mind)

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Paying one developer more simply because they're better at negotiating isn't fair either. As is, we really don't have good ways of determining one developer is clearly better than another.
There were some DOS games that had that baked in. Here's one example from 1987 (!), that used CGA graphics. They couldn't really spare the processing power during the game itself, so they kept it for the intro and the main menu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yL-u7lsMxk
By the numbers:

- 9216 phrases total

- 5857 (63.5%) pure ASCII phrases, mostly English with a few Spanish words thrown in

- 1372 (14.8%) code fragments -- mostly HTML, CSS, and Javascript

- 1027 (11.1%) CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and mostly the first two) phrases -- it's very hard to tell Chinese and Japanese apart in this context; I didn't try

- 158 (1.7%) phrases containing extended Latin-1 characters (nearly all Spanish words)

- 303 (3.3%) Cyrillic script (probably Russian) phrases

- 322 (3.5%) Arabic phrases

- 172 (1.9%) Devanagari script (Hindi) phrases

Plus a few miscellaneous other scripts and generally unclassifiable content.
There is irony in trying to refute my single expert opinion with another single expert opinion (via an article).

Reply to below: You're the one asserting that experts thought Go wouldn't be dominated by computers for a long time. The burden of proof lies on you. "Some experts thought it would happen by now, some didn't, there was no consensus" doesn't have quite the ring to it!
And when it gets hacked, everyone is truly f####d.
They haven't given up at all. And more importantly, they've developed a huge number of "if it looks good it is good" mathematical theorems.

This means that under many circumstances, you can build a model that satisfies certain abstract properties, test it, and have a high probability of generalizability. I.e. we've circumvented the "understanding" stage.

In fact, I'd say that the core of machine learning (as opposed to merely statistics) is exactly this.
He was half-wrong about the specific methods used (I say half-wrong because half of AlphaGo relies on relatively-brute-force MCTS). I don't think this detracts from my point - it is hard for any researcher to predict the exact methods that will be used a decade from now.
Well, I'd like to kindly suggest that you think again about your assumptions, regarding why I was dismissive of Ruby. Ruby was still kinda/sorta new-school in 2013. Yet another technology stack as far as I could tell. Ruby was not quite a thing yet, back in 2008 or so. Probably because Rails was still pretty much somewhat "new."

Back in 2008, I still had yet to learn that Ruby was a compiled language, and that Rails was a runtime environment for web applications. In corporate enterprise 401k cubicle farms, there were only hushed mentions of Ruby among hobbyists as early as autumn, 2009 (the first time I remember hearing tell of such a thing). And mostly among those who developed on Macs, which was actually a little bit rare back then. Ubuntu was similarly revolutionary at that time, even if LAMP stacks were well established.
The fact that you can pass attributes for a record into the JSONB field without defining the table structure in advance is really the decisive feature because then you never have to bother with changing your data model. For example, if you have contacts streaming into your table from Android devices you don't need to say whether or not there should be a column for "work email" and "home email2" etc etc... you just send everything into a column with key/value pairs and you can put whatever key/value pairs you want in that column. And then query over the keys without inserting a gazillion nulls into your database for rows that don't have a value for a particular key. You can also do updates on the json column AND you get all of the benefits of relational databases with other columns in the same table. I can't really see how anyone would not love this data type now that I have been exposed to it in production.
Selling a high end "gimmick" by forcing people to pay for features that are needed for the TV to work like speakers because you can sell a few rich yuppies the idea of a minimalist design is a nice anecdote but nothing more :)
You need leverage, but you need a lot of other things, too. Feeling comfortable negotiating, for one. Given that we're an industry that trends toward the introverted side, that may be hard to come by.
Because there is absolutely nothing that confuses many people more than having more than one remote! My mother still cannot figure out how to change the volume on my dad's home theater setup.
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But if the average consumer compares the Sony and LG 'smart' TVs with YouTube and Netflix and 47 other apps to a by extension 'dumb' Samsung display, they won't pick the Samsung, even if it has better panel quality that can't be readily quantified or seen on the hypersaturated demo.

Well, you and I might buy the Samsung, but most consumers aren't as informed or as savvy with a Chromecast.
I'd like to see some examples of the summaries. If you've performed a few already, it's literally no additional work to post them.

You might want the units you charge by the word summarized. A possible issue might be highly technical texts that require specialized knowledge. You could charge more for those.

Your business model is basically what I call 1:1 - One person pays for a summary and you perform one summary.

It might be more profitable to do a N:1 - A bunch of people pay for the same summary and you perform one summary.

This is how SparkNotes and CliffNotes work. Imagine selling "The top ten daily Hacker News posts/comment threads summarized daily."

Even better would be to offer summaries of things many people want that are relevant for longer periods of time (so you can sell to more people). A site that summarizes famous speeches would be one such example.
What's Homebrew?
Same method was used (and probably still is) in Israel when I was growing up. I guess I'm going back to onions now :)
> The "via leadership judgement" system absolutely has its flaws (including people trying to game that), but IMO it's the worst system to use, except for all the other systems we've tried.

Right now, at least with highly in-demand skillsets, it is more like "another company's leadership's judgement".
Oil companies in particular have enormous fixed investments in particular bits of infrastructure with their own particular nuances, long-running relations with particular governments, etc. It actually makes sense to invest heavily in people who know where the bodies are buried.
Great article. For anyone who wants a book-length drama revolving around the same pitfalls, read Jerry Kaplan's great account of GO Computing, published in the mid 90s. Time is on their side, and so is the Koolaid.

https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Silicon-Adventure-Jerry-Kapla...
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Did you salt that hash? I'm having a hard time brute-forcing it.
I doubt the inks used by newspapers are food safe. Besides, who still gets the newspaper?
But you know it when you see the outliers, right? You know who you'd want to go form a 3-person highly technical startup with. You know who else you'd never want to work with if your personal livelihood depending on them performing in a crunch.

I admit that I can't judge who is 10 or 20% better than another developer. I can tell who the 5-10x outliers are. Maybe under other circumstances or at other companies different people would shine, but I'm at this company and under these circumstances.
They're only damned if they don't want to pay what people are worth.
If the interest rate of 6.5% is high, which as far as I can tell is the case, i.e. it appears to be in the lower range of "junk" bonds, and they're unmarketable, and (here it gets iffy due to the acquisition) Musk and company had to buy most of their latest offering, they're by definition risky. The very first detail, their interest rate, tells you that, for no one pays more money to borrow money than they have to.

And, BTW, SpaceX just had a rocket and its payload go ka-boom on a launchpad pre-flight test.... Musk's attention and potentially capital just got a huge distraction.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12405092 , Tesla's lenders did not act favorably towards the merger.

Ah, and see this in particular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12406715

Math and physics are seldom friendly to "green" efforts.
What boggles the mind is that they still sell those calculators. For like $60 apiece.
I usually use JSONB but keep a non jsonb column as the PK.
Most likely because the browsers on older generation of smart TVs does not have the capability to work with MSE/EME.
I agree.

To me, best smart tv is tv with best, long lasting picture quality.
You can run a variant of GNUStep today, yet no one does.
But were consumers really clamoring for 3D, for example?

No they weren't. IMO it wasn't worth the extra money. After all, just how many times can someone re-watch Avatar? Most other 3D movies weren't actually shot in 3D, they were just faked in post production.

Here's a headline that shows just how dead 3D is:

With a bullet to the head from Samsung, 3D TV is now deader than ever

It may shamble forward zombie-style for a few more years, but without the world's No. 1 TV maker on board, 3D TV is doomed.

http://www.cnet.com/news/3d-tv-is-now-more-dead-than-ever/
I don't think cleaning a barbecue grill is about sanitation so much as removing the built up, burnt crap. Heat will take care of the former; the latter could insulate the grill (so your food doesn't cook as evenly) or give an unpleasant flavor.
This is reality. The only reason they are giving out the service is against a legalized signatory from you saying they can monitor your usage
1Password has a feature called Watchtower that can tell you if your password for each site is vulnerable.
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