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Ask HN: Is fear still a good sales strategy?
Came across a blog article https://betterthansure.com/fear-is-not-a-strategy-honesty-is-d0839076ba74 . I always get pushed to buying the loss damage waiver when renting a car, even if I told them I don't need it. How many companies out there use fear as a sales strategy?
This behavior seems pretty obvious. I'd be surprised if typical news orgs have a lot of people who understand this kind of stuff.
A second Amazon drive-up store in Seattle
The age of IR remote is almost gone.

Now they use a accelerator/gyroscope and a dedicated RF channel to provide input. Plus that you can transmit also more data ( Wii remotes send the battery status too, for example ).
I 'member.
Seems like we might want to address this and other threats by putting "dial a yield" nuclear devices on our missile defense weapons?
This is a really short note. I'm curious, was BoringSSL evaluated at all as an alternate substitute?
No, that's the definition of 'entitled'. When just because its hard to get something, that taking it becomes justified.
FWIW none of those work with the all mighty google's personal assistant either on my nexus 5x.
9 billion is 1.6 billion more people than we have today. What dramatic paradigm shift do we need for the earth to be able to support such a modest increase?
Have some examples?

The MIT license is problematic with software patents.

I see some projects moving to Apache2 for that reason (one prominent example here is Rust. They moved to an MIT/Apache2 dual licensing model).
There are a lot of leaps of faith baked into these scenarios. It appeals to fundamentally religious instincts. Notice that people start with a seemingly sensible set of propositions, and what falls out is the Apocalypse, immortality, heaven (or AI hell) and a sense of urgency, up to and including passing the collection plate.

Since you asked about the argument for recursive self-improvement goes like this. Say Alice is a human engineer, who designs an AI (Bob) who is her intellectual equal. Then she can run Bob on faster hardware, and the now-smarter-than-her Bob can repeat the trick to design Clara, and so on. It's AIs all the way up.

If you're a certain kind of beardo, you imagine this process could be compressed into a few hours.
Not available to me.

Cached by Google: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9a1Qrn...
Sounds like you've only dealt with older cars here.

Newer ones give you directions on the dashboard and I've never even seen a system that doesn't give you a 3D map.
I have 4 RPi's, a couple of BeagleBone Blacks, numerous Arduino and Teensy boards.

Disclosure: This stuff happens to be my hobby and profession, and I have extensive experience with embedded systems and microprocessor based electronics design.

The smaller boards have been infinitely useful to me. I do a lot of development, using Teensy boards to create peripherals that I can connect via USB to either a PC or a RPi. These peripherals control things like sensors, motors, etc. The microcontroller code serves as a sort of hardware abstraction layer, letting me test and talk to my gadgets via a terminal program.

Admittedly, the RPi's have been less useful. Because my gadgets talk via USB, it's easy to configure my systems so that I can do my higher level software development on either a PC or a RPi. The same software, in Python, runs on both systems with no code changes. So I tend to use the more "comfortable" system for development, and that's the Windows system with its big screen and quick response.

Bill Gates claims to have predicted that more people would be interested in developing software than hardware, and when the software runs on any platform, it gets harder for the lower performance hardware to justify its existence. Most of my projects are finished to my satisfaction without ever completing the final step of transferring them to a RPi to run autonomously.

Maybe the problem is that cross platform portability ultimately makes platforms less important.
Come on... I found your movie streaming in one super easy google search..it was the second link. Not to mention a 26 seed torrent in another simple google search. Just last night I watched a Polanski film streaming with basically no effort. Finding old movies streaming online is incredibly easy. I bet 100% of the IMDB top 250 can be easily found by searching "X streaming free" and having a good ad blocker.
I left one RPi2 at my mother's apartment to work as a NAS; second RPi2 is powering a skeleton for home automation system at my current apartment; a RPi3 sits in the drawer and waits for better days...
But you are allowed to, because as long as you don't greatly abuse the privilege the law will not penalize you at all.

Do while the legal system does not say he has a legally enforceable claim to watch the movie, the same system will not punish him for doing so.

Now, if we are talking morally, I'm going to guess we have different moral systems and thus not reach the same conclusion.

P.S. for the blender example, it would be more as if his purchased blender didn't work so he used a working one to turn his blender into a working copy, while the second blender continues to sit on the shelf for someone else to buy.
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I wonder if you would think that about my github profile. I don't have any JS, but I have forked a few C and C++ repos to make minor changes and hold them until upstream accepted them. I don't think I have deleted any of them. Then I have a few experiments answering questions I wanted answered.

It is not particularly hard to determine if fork n` fix is the reason for the repo. A search for the name of a project will find out if it is a truly lazy copy. Then asking a few questions about why some class or function deep in the code does a thing can determine at least the level of motivation of the copier.

If I can ask an unlimited number of questions about the code and the copier can answer them competently does it matter if they copied? They are competent in the code they pointed me at.

It is hardly a perfect system, it is just better in every way than only an interview.
> Who cares how many IMDB Top 250 they have.

Anyone trying to watch a specific film will care. Netflix is basically useless in a scrnario where you're looking to watch specific content. I maintain a to-watch list with about 20-30 films at any given time - Netflix offers none of them.
Not their fault, I know, but the situation is far from acceptable.
The car manufacturers just contract it out to companies like Johnson Controls, who make the system in my Mazda. It's running embedded linux and the interface is a bunch of javascript files. One of the bigger problems I see with this system is that Johnson Controls just doesn't give a shit about maintaining an old system unless a safety issue is presented. They're better off selling improved systems for use in newer model cars as a sales tactic. Android Auto/Apple carplay pretty much remove the ALWAYSBEIMPROVING component. Johnson Controls could pretty much just sell the same head unit/LCD combo for the next 10 years and no one would notice.
The only question is this: Is the dataset required to fit into RAM? Because if it is, than I haven't fixed the problem, now have I...
Well p2p such as torrent is for the bottom feeders. There are better methods available.
What about switching to Rust?
https://github.com/ctz/rustls
Yeah I'm lost too. The Pro is almost twice the price of the original chip, and afaict the only difference is that it's a little smaller (and has no USB port).

Huh?

I've got a handful of the original CHIPs, and they're great for what they are. But I don't get this "Pro".
Not all bodybuilders do. Most, probably, but there are a number who don't believe the estrogen/soy propaganda.

If anyone's interested, I would check out this YouTuber. There are a number of them, but I really like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LItbM2FfSt0. The video is his six month review of veganism (he's been doing it for over a year now).

Anyway, I'm not a vegan or trying to promote the diet/lifestyle. I just want to make people aware that there are plenty of counterexamples[1] to the claims about soy ruining your hormones.

[1] veganbodybuilding.com
I think it's safe to say he, sarcastically, is implying that failure to match the ease of getting torrents of movies means that movie studios are by default leaving torrenting as the best way to watch. Thus they seemingly endorse torrenting by offering no proper competition.
From [1], "Hampstead is the deepest station below the surface, at 58.5 metres (192 ft), as its surface building is near the top of a hill". So the deepest is about 60m, but from browsing around, it seems many are at least 40m deep.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_infrastruct...
While I ask Android for occasional content (while watching tv, "How tall is blah blah actor" etc) I usually use Androids ability to get my usual directives. "Directions to ..., Weather in..., Call <business> in <location>..., Set timer for...". It does both very well.

I stay signed out and opted out of all Google Now features and tracking so this is just it does by default. Voice is my primary ui for my phone. It is very useful and I find it parses my input correctly nearly everytime, it's very rare for it to error.

Meanwhile, my wifes iphone 6 gets basic commands wrong frequently and she spends minutes typing all the time. Siri isn't losing, it has lost.

I don't think this actually matters to the iOS population however. It's well known they don't buy iphones for features.

edit: A sample question from the article "when is the presidential debate" is handled fine as an example
Why Tech Giant Ericsson Wants Blockchain 'Fingerprints' in the Cloud
Since you only have one name, wouldn't it be both your first and last name? Is there a reason you don't input "Steven Steven"?
heh, same here. I can't use my banks ebilling website.
you are scanning a qr code from project's website or terminal, and boom you are able to create chat bots with your Whatsapp account.

I'm not using any open sourced and problematic libraries(which are replacing whatsapp client) like whatsapi&yowsup, I developed more secure, robost and undetectable method and want to create a product.

also what are the solutions did you mentioned?
Sony Turns to Virtual Reality to Fuel Comeback
Making a mold and casting a custom case seems incredibly cumbersome compared to just buying a USB key case and fitting the board into it: http://www.mouser.com/New-Age-Enclosures/Enclosures/Enclosur...
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Why not address it locally? Its easy to say "somebody else's problem" when dealing with your poor, dirty homeless neighbors. And its a problem all over - the reciprocal argument "the State can't fix everything for everybody" is valid too.

The real hangup in all this comes when temporary fixes (tents) are pulled out from under people, and ephemeral future fixes by indeterminate somebody are waved around. People have to be sheltered every day. Starting today.
> That says a lot about how spending $31,967.10 for every homeless person can amount to, well, no one seems to know.

The "76 private organizations" that all this money is being funneled toward probably know.
Or buy calls on SCTY and puts on TSLA. Much less risk (only the options premiums).
Why? Not everything is free and open source. In fact, most of the operating systems used outside the "general-purpose" Linux realm are not (e.g. OS400, z/OS, z/TPF, AIX, Solaris, NonStop, QNX, vxWorks... even Windows Server).

That said, if you're really interested, HP offers free hobbyist licenses for non-commercial use of OpenVMS, with access to the OS and compilers and usable on real hardware or SIMH.
I have to say, I work for a bulge bracket bank ran entirely (well, mostly) on MSSQL 2008/2012, and I don't think I've ever had any issues with it, apart from the one set of DBs that someone decided to turn into a backend for an object store that seemingly didn't know anything about database design.
What if there is an increase in bug fixes because the open office decreased the quality of work resulting in more bugs?
I like the idea of "patch golf". If only people would at least do a diff before they commit to spot gratuitous reformatting or accidental changes :-(
While we are on the subject:

I constantly find the need to read up on licensing. Usually with various blog posts or online information, which never gives me the feeling that I fully understood the legal implications or the context.

Can anyone recommend a book covering software licenses in depth? (ideally not only US centric)
I'd say it's both. If you get away from the heights and walk around the base of the buildings, it's totally Brutalism - straight-up shaped concrete, nothing to decorate but the shape itself. It's also remarkably walkable and sociable. It feels like a space rather than an obstacle. (I credit part of this vibe to the Somali community, who are strongly self-policing and don't tolerate dangerous gangs of young men in their space)
You must be using google maps :) I have a garmin standalone unit, and android on my dash, making it easy to contrast and compare. Google likes to pick the clinically shortest route, expecting that traffic lights and left turns take no additional time. When ignoring them and taking a more sensible route, you find that their elaborate complexity by their own calculations would have made at most 1 minute of difference.

Google has been improving over the years, but still hasn't caught up with the user friendliness of garmin. Garmin seems to give the kind of directions that a human navigator sitting next to you would. Google seems like a machine that knows nothing of the real world!
see defcon talk about them. it was hell to buy sim cards to do the shaddytel for torcamp.

basically, telcos make sure only them can update the code there. it's a computer running 24h, with full network and sensor access, that you carry everywhere, and you have zero control or visibility
It's easy to stay in power when you have complete control over the news and propaganda machines. Using Venezuela as an example, the country is one of the richest in the world in natural resources, but 1% of the population controls 99% of the wealth.
This is an interesting concept. And while I feel that of course this one will be doomed, maybe it can open discussion on what we will do with the concept of nations once we enter space.

For example: a colony is settled on Mars, with astronauts from various countries. They stay, what would their, or their children's nationalities be?

And yes, I did sign up to become a citizen :)
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Because Elon ?
That's not what I'm really asking for. I live that reality most days. So I believe it fully.

When I discuss these and sometimes any issue really with engineers or scientists, I try to find technical research papers with null hypothesizes and methodology.

My point being for technical people like engineers, you aren't convincing a lot of people with light fluffy pieces without links to hard data, in fact you get them even more entrenched in their current way of thinking because they think you don't have real scientific evidence.

I've found in personal experience, technical people are far more open minded then the general population, but they tolerate far less bullshit.
Without the constant social pressure to mark content, this 'Few unique hits' would become a pattern of behavior.

The system is working. Let it do its job.
Some companies are closed source for a really good reason: it allows for Vertical Integration and Focused Execution. Bay Area companies spend millions of dollars worth of engineers salaries in projects that layer complexity upon complexity (and you need dozens of engineers to maintain them), just because they are in love with idea of open source. This is dangerous proposition, and it stifles innovation. There is an opportunity to dramatically simplify a lot of data pipelines. Check this out: http://docs.memsql.com/docs/pipelines-overview
They'd be a colony only until they were self-sufficient. Then they'd become a nation through declaration and maybe war.
This may seem somewhat unorthodox, but what I would strongly recommend is to start not by reading books on physics or math but read some books on history of physics (and math) first. This will give you some intangible basic knowledge, or a sense, of what scientific research is all about, so that many things that otherwise may end up being puzzling to you when you come to learn the "hard science", won't. One recommendation I can make is Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
Congrats on the raise, but I'll be honest it really rubs me the wrong way that they renamed to "Serverless Framework" from JAWS. They should have picked a different name. The word "Serverless", for better or worse, was what the community settled on. Lot of companies and individuals use it in many different ways and have before this project existed. But they are trying to own it[1]. Not being a good community member IMO.

Edit: An example of the kind of thing I am concerned will happen[2]. Use the word "serverless" in a project? Get a take down notice.

[1]http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:t7t...

[2]https://twitter.com/sindresorhus/status/776142274564616192
Can the unadulterated hate on Microsoft stop ESPECIALLY when you are using an Apple product.

Microsoft has always had "good guys/gals" at the company. They have been in action more the good guys then anything else minus Steve Balmer's anti-Linux bias over the years.
I think core based licensing is reasonable for scaling.
DNS prefetch makes those logs fairly useless - fortunately or unfortunately depending.
A very proud moment for me recently was when someone ran git stats and it showed I'd deleted more code than I'd written. It was glorious.
look at the components used by Linux for NAS. they include a bunch of stuff like that. I'm not that familiar with any
Amen. If you are really good at CSS, you might play to that strength. Or, you might play to different strengths. There's probably more than one way to do it in many cases that doesn't hurt the project.
Would have been interesting if Chromebooks could handle video in and HID out.
The answer to that question isn't "Lets move the homeless colony", it's "Lets work to reduce poverty."
Of course you don't build the reference BLAS if you care about performance. But OpenBLAS is quite competitive, and open source. A non-free compiler is a big impediment to build reproducibility and accessibility for new contributors for a large open source project.
Humans can't recursively self-improve in the sense AI adherents mean it, because we are stuck in our meat brains and can't redesign them or move to faster hardware (yet!, they'll say).

What's being smuggled under the philosophical carpet here is exactly what you point out. There's no guarantee that an AI would be a humorless utilitarian rationalist obsessed with self-improvement.

It's also possible that general intelligence is a tradeoff against something else (like existential despair, or a tendency to veer off into writing extropian fanfic) and entities hundreds, or thousands, or tens of times smarter than human beings can't exist.

Scio me nihil scire.
The DEA won’t ban kratom after all
Surface Phone is revolutionary… or it doesn’t exist
This is bringing back strong memories of messing around with QBASIC and Clickteam's The Games Factory.

My first game was called "Money 4 Nothing" and you moved a mouse-cursor locked guy around collecting floating cash piles and avoiding guards who usually just shot you on a loop.
Cars have very limited utility that can't be better solved with mass transit. Individual vehicles are grossly inefficient for basically every scenario except rural transport. Replacing those uses would nearly eliminate auto accidents and have a ton of other benefits as well.
If you're referring to topsites, they are archaic, their rules are outdated, and they optimize for speed over quality of releases.

In terms of breadth and quality of content, private torrent trackers are far and away the best download method.
​Fedora 25 beta released: Community Linux for containers arrives
Add Julia to the list, since it's directly competing with Python on scientific computing, and the other two aren't really that much (maybe Go a little).
I see, thanks very much for that.
Proportionally (to population), I'd say it's less than or around the NYC numbers.

Something really interesting: "Hawaii has the highest homeless rate per capita in the nation, according to federal statistics."

Hawaii the state spends something around 40m a year on the homeless.

But a lot of Hawaii homeless live in tents on the beach!

Just some interesting numbers. I know a lot of the homeless kids in Hawaii also get picked up by school buses as well.
Why can't we choose between multiple a la carte services each offering the entire collection of Movies/TV shows ever released?

It pretty much works this way for music, why not movies and TV shows?
When I was still locked to Python 2 I really wanted to use Pypy but couldn't due to Cpython requirements. Now we're using Python 3.5 async stuff everywhere.

I wonder if I'll ever get to use Pypy in anger or will something in Python 3.6+ distract me (those f-strings look pretty fancy, dammit).
TL;DR: A former Netflix employee isn't surprised because films very little business sense for Netflix.

Former Netflix employee here--though I left in late 2013. I remember sitting at a company meeting and Reed Hastings explaining that AAA film content was never going to be the bread-and-butter for Netflix for several reasons. Most importantly: Between traditional, "linear" television and Netflix, the experience that Netflix brings with a combination of a low subscription cost, no commercials, and the ability to watch as many episodes of a show as you want to watch whenever you want to watch them is VASTLY superior.

Netflix survives and thrives on binge-watching--and people just don't do that with movies (they have a LOT of data to back up that statement). Combined with the realities of the costs associated with feature film licensing and there's very little incentive for Netflix to put any emphasis on films.

The only way they could do it is to tack on a pay-per-view service for films (because their subscription fee alone will absolutely NOT cover the cost of licensing more feature film content) and they are highly averse to such a service. The general feeling is that it's better for the average user if they can open up Netflix and watch whatever is there without ever thinking about whether it's an "included" title or a "PPV" title. When I was there, we regularly revisited this assumption and research always found that it continued to be the prudent move.
...Which I could tell from how you phrased your comment. I was merely speaking generally, I assure you.

However, I must say that if I was asked the question "Emacs or IDE?" The answer would be "EMACS!" said rapidly and with great force. I never really understood why people like IDEs. Maybe I've just been using the wrong ones. It might have something to do with the fact that most of my IDE experiences is tied to Java, a language I find so unpleasant that I have to cleanse myself with Lisp, Python, Ruby, Haskell, Rust, or some other, equally pleasant language to get the bad taste out of my mouth after using it.

It also could be that the support for the Lisps in Emacs in unbelievably good. It's not as good as the Lispms or some of the proprietary IDEs, or so I've been told, but I can't afford either, and those only work with one dialect of Lisp, whereas Emacs works with all the popular ones and a few that aren't.
I don't use Siri much, but I tried to ask "How many hours until 7 am", and it gave me the wrong number.
Most of those SQL server can do. There isn't really a need for VACUUM on SQL sever.
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