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> I'm just fascinated by the fact that in 2016 there are still huge companies like this making their money on ancient tech that is insanely overpriced to the alternatives.

It is basically about switching costs. Even if you have the money you don't want to disrupt your operations because IT is doing a monster migration to different technologies.
I believe they exist (as you mention) but it's not as common as it should be (as it would if labor law required it).
Especially with the recent article I read about our obsession with productivity, and the loss of "hobbies".
I do wonder what the plan is for the big spenders with the gold phones?
The ad literally shows a geek-looking person aghast at a dudebro with a faux-hawk. I don't know about everyone else here, but I intuitively identify with the geek. Who is this targeting? It just increases my affinity with their competition
That may be normal leakage from the Y capacitor between the primary and secondary. 250 microamps of leakage (IEC 60950?) is allowed, which you can feel but is harmless. I am told that the Y capacitor reduces EMI (electromagnetic interference).
The trouble with bottled water is that the minerals are often filtered out. Water is the only way we get certain needed minerals.
I have an Asus 21:9 29", 2560x1080, not 3440x1440 like the LG you mention (which I've considered). The extra width is nice, and the aspect ratio is perfect when watching movies, but I find I need more vertical pixels.

Instead of the 34", wouldn't make sense to just go 4K (3824x2160) and get it over with? You're getting more vertical AND horizontal pixels. Personally, I'm salivating at the Seiki SM40UNP (40"). Anything smaller at 4K resolution and you'll need display scaling, negating the size gain. I don't think my 2013 ultrabook can drive it at 60Hz, but there are apocryphal reports that I may be able to eke out 50Hz.
An ex-girlfriend used her (non-mac) laptop on the couch a lot, and constantly ended up with frayed cables.

What I found was that when she used a plugged-in device, she paid little attention to the angle the cable went out at. I guess it's from my time dealing with fiber, but I always make sure that if the cable has to turn a corner, I give it as gentle a curve as possible. This makes a huge difference in resisting fraying.
A lot of chairs give poor support for proper posture. Aerons are very good about that in my experience; something with the same profile will probably do you well.
Not to mention the thieving jerks charge $90 for a replacement. Mine seem to last 18 months at most.

Even if they insist on keeping their incredibly fragile cords, they could make them user swappable -- just like the wall end -- and sell replacements for $10.
That's a bit sensational. There are tons of legitimate, high quality power supplies that will create "big sparks" when you short them out. You can stick a scissor into the next power outlet and chances are you will come away with much more than sparks.

The only difference here is that Apple does a handshake prior to switching the power supply outputs on. The cheapie saved on the extra logic. Of course this is only necessary in the first place because the connector isn't very safe with the exposed pins.
It could be as it couldn't. Both our opinions are on the same level because we're fact-less.

In most sports, we have clear rules about who is better at it. Let's say long jump. It's clear that a person with larger limbs (genetics) will have an advantage above one that has shorter limbs. How do we translate this in cognitive ability?

A person is more intelligent than other because they passed a test? because they can draw better? Everything is loosely defined.
I don't think contentment is equatable to happiness. Specifically there's a misconception that people that are extremely happy resign themselves to contently doing nothing. But the opposite is the case -- happy people achieve the best of their potential, make the best decisions, and feel more motivated to seek out new (perhaps creative, challenging) tasks.

> just look around you for proof that everyone wants fame or notoriety of some kind

I think another way to look at that is -- everyone wants to be socially accepted, respected, and loved.
A lot of smaller shops do siesta hours closing from 2 - 4 or 4.30.
Apple overhaules the home button to rely on Apple’s taptic engine
"serverless" now seems to mean just no server at YOUR site. it does not mean what I always read it as in peers/clients only
Yes, I already said they aren't a necessity, though many people like having higher-kinded types. But then ML/Ocaml folks seem to be doing fine without. I personally prefer having HKT because you can then neatly express well known type-classes for implementing functors, applicatives, monads and many others.
3rd paragraph FTA:

> As for the really expensive Apple Watch Edition, it seems like Apple is killing the product. The company probably wanted a flagship model to show that it was serious about fashion. But now that the Galeries Lafayette, Colette and Hermès sell the Apple Watch, Apple can focus on mass-market watches.
Interesting read. However, I wonder if for education purposes it would better if every student who is bored with their current schoolwork could just move into more advanced materials until they are not bored, instead of trying to spot the "super geniuses" early on and leaving the rest, the "not talented enough", to continue with the normal course material.

Because if you have some kind of test for identifying the geniuses who can enter your "special gifted genius program", the test is going to have a some cut-off line or threshold, and that's going to be unfair. For example, assume you're using an IQ test, and the kids who score above some arbitrary threshold would be ushered into the special awesome program, but the kid who scores only one point below the threshold does not get in. Even if the difference is just one point ... That would be a quite silly (and deeply unfair) policy, because there's always going to be some random noise in the test taking.
Apple leaks new iPhone 7 moments before reveal
Apple *officially* unveils the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus
I've heard the "insanely overpriced" comment before - compared to what? The open source/cheaper alternatives tend to be, bluntly, a joke when it comes to the data storage market. They all either have glaring availability or feature gaps that people who champion them try to paint as "not a big deal". It's not a big deal until your fortune 500 relies on it.
An interesting thing I found out from getting to know a Swedish family living in Mexico was they make a conscious effort in their society to not be too good or better than everyone else. People strive to be a B versus an A. Not every single person subcribes to that thinking but I've rarely met a Swedish person that didn't seem to be fairly happy.
a watch that needs a battery? yawn.

E: I expected downvotes, but I'm actually kind of serious. It shouldn't be impossible to get a small but interesting amount of tech incorporated into an automatic watch.
> other metrics associated with intellectual accomplishment.

Like say IQ. Feynman wouldn't have qualified for Mensa, and happily too[0]. Maybe that's a good metric. The metric is happy not to be in Mensa, but also has a PhD.

Edit: Feynman's IQ was 126 and Mensa wants 132, at least according to Ericsson and Pool in their book Peak.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEUcmKDaklY
What was the process for that like, if you don't mind me asking?
“Be Patient with Yourself” – Audio Rant #2
> Can you name an innovative European company that's big in the US? I can't think of any that I could call innovative with a straight face.

BMW is innovative and big in the US. I'm sure you can keep a straight face. Also, Audi.

There have been plenty of companies in the past like Skype, Nokia, ARM, Mojang, CCP. But many of them get bought.

In any event, it's obviously more lob sided towards the US. There are many of factors. If I were a researcher I would probably begin by investigating how many Europeans move to the US to start or join companies (lots) and if there is any 'patriotism effect'. For example, I've only seen the severe distinction of "domestic" vs. "import" (e.g. cars, beers, etc) in the US.
Virus Simulator with source code
> As someone occasionally told my job is becoming irrelevant by people here on HN

HN is an enormous echo chamber; Take it with a liberal amount of skepticism.
Improving collaboration with forks
As you say, it hits a nerve... But what's there to be angry about, when that happens anyway?

I suspect that said "neurotic, senseless need" to keep up with the corporate Joneses is what drove many organizations to adopt Slack in the first place. That leaves them feeling vulnerable about the next thing that might be coming up, which they don't want to miss out on. IMO Ryver is being rather clever by playing on that insecurity so openly.
Drats, I was hoping it was something mischievously strategic about "commoditizing the complement" and wondering which was what.

(As in pushing for cheap software if you have exclusive hardware, and vice-versa.)
Also a Pokemon Go app for it, which is probably going to blow the top off sales unless people start getting bored with the game any time soon. (Totally scientific analysis of my fellow light rail commuters suggests this is not likely!)
I thought I mentioned that in the article: "Maybe you think these safety issues don't matter because you don't poke your charger with a paperclip. But if you have any metal objects on your desk, a random contact could yield a surprisingly large spark."
I'm not a Slack fanboy but this whole article reads like it was written in an echo chamber where the word "free" has no definition.

> Ryver is entirely free. We give away what Slack charges a lot of money for.

> We’re a freemium model. We offer Ryver Team Communication for free and we will be charging money for add-on products such as a Task Manager.

So it's not "entirely free" the proper description would be "freemium".

Also from the FAQ:

> Then we will ship Ryver Enterprise for big companies. These will be priced very creatively and competitively.

BUT I THOUGHT THAT TEAM COMMUNICATION NEEDED TO BE FREEEEEEEE!

So once again, very clearly not free. Also "creatively" and "competitively", is that another way to describe: "hard to understand"? Reminds me of sketchy mattress dealers...

> The difference is that their free tier is a crippled product whereas our free level is a full product without limitations…

Okay..? I'm mean I see what they are saying but if I consider "task manager" to be a requirement for team communication, then you too are selling me a "crippled" product.

My key take away from this article is that Ryver is apparently the Donald Trump of the team communication world. Lots of smoke and mirrors and very few, if any, features that distinguish it from their competition.

But congrats, I guess... I now know the name of your company.
Isn't this kind of like what WebKit was doing with FTLJIT before phasing it out in favor of B3?
They added features, so even though the battery probably has more capacity, or the CPU is more efficient, I expect the extra power those features demand will offset any improvements in that area.
Your article doesn't support your point; it's Goldman's CEO complaining about other people manipulating LIBOR.

https://www.theice.com/iba/libor

Goldman Sachs did not manipulate LIBOR because it's not even one of the banks that is asked for LIBOR submissions (they were an investment bank, not a commercial bank).

I'm all for bashing banks when it's appropriate, but it's our obligation to get the facts straight first.
And per-channel guest access, too.
A good rule in my experience is to have the top edge of the monitor roughly level with your eyeline, so it's easy to see the entire display without needing to tilt your head back at all.
I read the first few pages and will certainly want to dig into the rest. It is interesting insightful stuff from a true expert.

Something I never realized as an undergradute math major/ physics minor was to what exent mathematics is arbitrary. We set certain axioms describing the real line, and then two, three, higher dimensional spaces. But the actual details are governed by arbitrary choices and culture as opposed to any reason of necessity.

A lot of advanced mathematics assumes the axiom of choice, but as far as the mathematics applies to the real world there is no known consequences to assuming the opposite. It is purely a cultural choice.

People have an idea that math is universal and absolute, but that isn't so much true!
Any mental state has a physical / chemical correlate. I find the idea these are imbalances unhelpful.

And, we're not even certain which way round the causality flows. A bit of both, surely.
Code: totally agreed.

Data: tricky, because of privacy and HIPPA.
Nothing official, but my guess is that it's relatively unchanged: charge it every night.
Doesn't mean they will spend hundreds of dollars to do it with their watch.
So... the higher a students test score the more likely they are to be a scientist - isn't that a truism? In order to become a scientist you have to get accepted into universities ... that will look at your test scores as judgement of whether you should be admitted.

Can anyone think of a notable scientist that didn't do well in school? We don't really encourage people who perform poorly on tests to become scientists - so none of these results are surprising.

How many students that score in the high .01% on tests end up becoming professional athletes? Or a rapper? Probably just as unlikely as a student who scores in the low .01% becoming a doctor.

Is it because smart people aren't interested in sports or don't like rap music? Doubt it.

For better or worse, our society pushes archetypes. If you do well on biology tests you are "supposed" to become a biologist. Good with computer? Become a programmer.
Definitely agree. Thanks for that, appreciate it!
bottled water and printer ink, the most expensive liquids on the planet.
At a previous employer, one of my colleagues needed a bigger HD. He spent months struggling to get it and ultimately gave up and made do.

But I was wise to the ways of this company, and I also needed a bigger HD, so I simply requisitioned a whole new PC and it arrived the next day. Its about whatever makes the paperwork easier...
I think bringing up marketing-as-information-dissemination is a red herring, because it's only a small fraction of the whole thing. The cost of telling people about a product/service should obviously be paid by the product/service provider - but we've solved that thing with a printing press, in the form of yellow pages and newspaper classifieds. Google's costs per company indexed are probably even cheaper.

Marketing is by and large about gaming the way people select goods and services, so that you can sell more regardless of the quality of your offerings, or of whether the client actually needs it.
It's funny that the article includes "you’re setting yourself apart from the snake oil peddlers of the world" as the writing and the surrounding web page makes me think of it as nothing other than snake oil.
Possible, but it's worth noting that some people are sensitive to chlorine. Public swimming pools often give me a headache and make my nose run, while the people around me don't seem to have a problem. In fairness I haven't isolated chlorine as the cause, but I've never had issues with natural bodies of water.
Good points all round!

Thank you.
Thanks, I didn't know about that. But I meant cognitive abilities, like Math.
Oh darn it. I originally spelled it Yiteng Zheng..I caught one typo. thanks
The Android Runtime on Chrome OS Makes Use of Wayland
"web" works inconsistently on mobile
It's uncontroversial because only Flemish people can read it. Zing!
Just got the Gear S2. Apple needs to switch to OLED and add Always-On display before I go back. Twisting my wrist several times just to see the time was extremely annoying.
You can recover the power of higher-kinded types with higher-order functors (in the ML sense), without sacrificing the compatibility of abstract types and type inference in the core language.

On the other hand, Haskell's type inference algorithm is simply incompatible with abstract types.
Also, Switzerland isn't a member of the EU anyways.
"Will be shipped on Sep 20th."

I don't see anything about pre-orders or August anywhere on the page (did the link get changed?). This is a group buy, where you commit to purchasing something at a certain price, but if enough people also join, the price can come down for everybody because of bulk discounts. So right now you can commit to paying $39.95, and if 40 more (as of this comment) people join the price drops to the final tier of $37.95 for anyone involved in the group buy.
Today the distinction between an European and US company is blurred, as it is easy to register business abroad or in multiple countries. Many European startups incorporate in the US from the beginning, but operate from EU, many open sister US companies at some point. Should these companies be counted as successful EU or US companies?
"That's the government's job, not private activists'."

Taking a broad view, I disagree. Everything the government is permitted to do is (or at least should be) ultimately by consent of the governed. Anything that is the government's job is only their job because the governed delegated it to them; it is the job of the governed first, delegated to the government. It is private activists' job; the government has simply been tasked with it.

I believe the governed have a moral duty to take back any such job when the government proves unable to properly execute their duties.

The line of "unable to properly execute" is, unfortunately, enormously open to interpretation. Morality isn't easy.
> services 98% of all fortune 500 companies.

So it's a short list of ten for the other 2%. IBM, HP, ... ??

(Clarification: the ten who don't buy from Dell+EMC. Just curious about that. Direct competitors is my first guess ...)
well my wind-up watch is rusty these days
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The Apple Watch does use OLED.
Tracking emerging technology: Good collection of feeds
I don't think he's using genius to mean "a genius". I think it's instead meant as a term for "a bright idea". i.e.: "to have genius" vs "to be a genius".
Nice, but you should have written it in TeX :)
Atul Gawande talks about this a lot in "Complications" [1]. A great book about medical procedure, and specifically about the process of learning, trial and error and the whole feedback loop of working with disease.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Complications-Surgeons-Notes-Imperfec...
Indeed water is heavy. So get it to your home in the most efficient way - through pipes. I'm happy to do it just to avoid having to carry home everything I drink.
Surprisingly few comments so far. My take: Max Stoiber is a fantastic contributor to the React ecosystem. His React-Boilerplate project is a solid, well-designed starting point for production application development. This new tutorial is well written, makes good use of the new Create-React-App tool to simplify the learning curve, and covers several topics in good depth to get someone started.
I never did understand this especially for distilled water
I just gotta wonder what the reaction of all the celebs will be, as Apple tends to listen and covet them. I was expecting a special upgrade given the cost. I guess its another Mac anniversary edition.
Every policy that gets put in place has the possibility of influencing behavior of those involved.

If your organization pays extra for on-call work, that influences buggier code because you will get paid to fix or solve it later (even if it's not intentionally buggy).

You see this all the time with contract work and it's a huge issue with low bids that end up costing a lot more because of the sunk cost.

Edit In fact, you already have developers fighting this incentive at your organization. If developers are already writing buggy code hoping that it will be someone else's issue and not caring when it's their turn to be on call, imagine when they get paid extra to fix the bugs they introduced to begin with
I like the change of pace. So many of these types of guides seem like cookie cutters of whatever the latest writing and design trends are. I find it nice to see indie zine style (stuff I like to read on my off time) fused with a practical technical resource (stuff I like to read on my on time).
> The new company services 98% of all fortune 500 companies.

How is this not an antitrust issue?
First and probably last time I ever heard of Ryver. I thought Discord was something like Slack?
That's not what was being asked; what was being asked is "why wouldn't you want to persist some bits from a previous emission to a current one?" and the answer is "you do; it helps you in threat models where the attacker is somehow able to blast some hardware for a tiny time such that they can control an N bit-chunk of seed material, but not what came before or after." If you don't persist some bits between the calls, then this lets them determine entirely a few outputs of your RNG -- albeit scrambled by SHA3, but for some security expectations that's sufficient. On the other hand if you persist a seeding block between hash invocations, you block these attacks rather easily.
Couldn't find anything to do with steam engines, internal combustion engines, or electric motors.

Couldn't find anything invented at IITs.

"Here, let me tell you about Indian inventions from 1000 B.C. !!!"
The point has been made several times in this thread, but some of this may be a matter of what you expect water to taste like. I grew up in a small town where the water had a kind of "mineral-y" flavor to it, and tap water in most places tastes a little off to me by comparison. I know that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it, though.
This list is misleading because it only includes active companies, and doesn't include companies which have exited/died. (Contrast with http://yclist.com)

For example, filtering on s2006 only returns Scribd, but as YClist shows, there are 9 other startups in that batch.
In my college class there were two kids I would call absolute geniuses, possibly the smartest folk I have ever met. One wrote his senior thesis his second year there (on compilers and type theory) and another was a young philosophy transfer student from Deep Springs who regularly owned and outwitted professors in class to such a degree that rumors abounded he would be offered a faculty position after graduating. And he was. But he didn't take the position. Why? Because he killed himself a few days later, jumped in front of a train. The kid who wrote his senior thesis sophomore year got a job working for Google when he was nineteen (this was back when Google was still cool and considered the elite of the elite) and killed himself before his 21st birthday.

My point is that academic performance and intellect doesn't mean shit outside the academy and is a terrible indicator to use for success or accomplishment. It's never too late.
Slack also - you can use it in browser. Most people don't want to, but I've seen some people say that they do so much work there that it's nice to have a browser tab visible.
Why do they fail to replicate it ? Especially if I am hearing it's the same people developing (re-developing) it over and over again