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I don't see why they're doing this now, what caused this?

Also, I hope this doesn't put downward pressure on BTC. There is already mounting pressure as the world invests in dollars considering widespread conservative political movement across the globe, and no one quite knows what's going to happen. As the dollar goes up, I'd think that would have another negative effect on BTC.

I see BTC crashing very soon, but in the meantime, I'm waiting cautiously.
Rather than working on the perfect landing I think a good enough landing would be sufficient (crash and get back into ready to jump posture). Mostly so that the scenario of back to back jumps can be tested (which would also be interesting for stress testing). I'd love to watch the wall jump over and over until the robot breaks/stops for example.

Edit: I see something similar is mentioned in future research. Cool :)
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Honestly turning it off and back on again usually helps the mongodbs :/
> The HN community has made abundantly clear, over and over, that people like me aren't actually welcome here.

Hm, I'm not sure of the specifics, but wow, this got real pretty quickly.
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How is it the least user-friendly? In Ubuntu, for example, nothing in regular use seems particularly different. My grandma started using it as her first OS at 84, and she’s still doing fine.
Didn't find it in the article but is "scorched earth" a possible reason? I am guessing not as the article would have said so. And there were not large organized armies during that time...
>Apple needs to do one thing to reassert their dominance for the next decade... allow users to easily connect iphones to displays and keyboards.

They might do that, but it's not that high on user's priorities by any long shot.

Phone/tablet use has surpassed desktop use, and most of it happens on the go, on the sofa, on the bus, on the restaurant, and in other such places where no displays and keyboards make much sense.

For a niche, yes, they would be great (writers working on the coffee shop typing on their iPhone etc) but not for any majority of people, and not for Apple to "reassert their dominance".
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Thanks, I was making a (bad) guess about what had been successfully delivered. Hm, that makes the reported $40mm price closer to having money falling on common, but probably not close enough. Did the $15mm series A have a 2X liquidation preference?
Ditto 4.4
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The large iPad Pro is close to fullscreen 12/13" laptops.

It all depends on the workflow, if one mostly uses 1-2 apps fullscreen it can fly.
I don't read them much, but I had the impression avclub was better than publishing such claptrap? What happened?
Using Postmail's virtual aliases and a nice web interface to manage them, I create a random virtual alias (h9jle20gavs32@domain.tld) associated with a site name for every place I have to input an email address, it makes spam tracking pretty simple.
IME, those were the same place.
Looks like you edited this as i was typing, but: I almost never comment, though, and when i do it's usually angry (on account of how horrified and unwelcome i feel basically every time i happen to read past the front page). So grzm has no particular reason to realize that i'm a longer-time user than they are. I certainly don't have anything resembling regular usage patterns. I did parse it as an attempt to be genuinely helpful, whether or not that was the actual intent.
well, damn. I went through all the hoops signing up with Circle already, I heard Coinbase was worse. Does this make Coinbase the only game in town for buying bitcoin with a debit card?
> Priority is always critical for whatever little changes management wants.

Which is why in an actual emergency, management needs to actually communicate with the people involved in the development pipeline, not just hope the normal flow will magically work faster.

This used to happen constantly at my office:

Boss: I made a ticket to [change thing]. It's urgent, and please let [coworker I pass tickets to] know that it's urgent too.

...

Me: Coworker, I just sent you a ticket, [boss] says it's urgent.

Coworker: Everything is urgent. Shrugs and goes back to working from the top of his ticket list, all of which have the same high-priority flag as the one I just sent him.
It's absolutely possible on Android. Just show the user a dialog which contains 5 star buttons. If they press the fourth or fifth star, take them to the app page on Google Play, otherwise don't do anything.

It's not allowed in the Google Play TOS, and it's one of the darkest patterns there is, but it's technically possible just as it is on iOS.
> 1. Seed stage is likely before growable revenue.

In which case from all I can tell, essentially no VC in the country will pay any attention at all. That is, the startup didn't have traction significant and growing rapidly.

For university startups, okay, but have to look in detail at the project plans. As I mentioned, that's possible: E.g., the first version of GPS was a back of the envelope thing by some guys at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. That envelope was converted to a project plan; the plan was executed and successful. Lesson: If look carefully, should be able to evaluate the project technology just on paper long before soft/hardware or traction. If the technology really is overwhelmingly powerful for some commercial need, then, sure, should have a successful company. But IT VCs won't look at the details and, instead, just want to look at traction.

For funding of on-going companies, sure, there is a big industry for that from later stage VCs, private equity, M&A, IPOs, etc. There to evaluate a company, make heavy use of accountants and lawyers.
Apple watches are expensive enough that I bet most are specifically requested as gifts. Some percentage will be "I thought you might like this", but most will probably be "this is the thing you asked for."
Apple didn't invent the smartphone either. Smartphones existed for years before, Apple arguably just was the first to make something that the "masses" would want to use.

Same thing will likely apply here too.
say what you want, but my family (with no technological literacy to speak of) has been using the following distros with great success:

Linux Mint: my mother. two years since the switch and she loves it. can't say I don't either.

Arch Linux: my significant other. a year since she adopted it, and she can find her way around just fine.

FreeBSD: my father. with i3 and a couple of scripts, he's able to boot up into a single-use environment and do what he wants. very simple and easy and I don't have to touch his laptop for a long time.

so.. user friendly? user friendliness depends on the interface that you slap onto the front of the operating system. turns out, there are different UIs for different purposes!

and that's why linux is a good choice. underneath, it's secure, maintainable, and free. on top, it can look like anything you want, thanks to X and the various DE/WMs.

my mother needs a full-on Windows-like GUI, start menu and all. my SO needs a slim interface so she uses fluxbox, which with a click of her mouse has everything she needs in a convenient menu (plus workspaces), and my father doesn't need anything but a web browser.

the kernel doesn't matter to them if you dress it up nicely.
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Circle has been putting distance between themselves and Bitcoin for a while now, branding their service as a type of social money, even while still using Bitcoin behind the scenes.
Agreed. I still like my Time (did yours die?), but I am one of the affected PT2/Core backers (and Pebble advertising other KS projects like hell means that I also backed a GPS strap/addon for the now DOA PT2. Yay).

It feels like I'm starting to like a market and it dies. Like watching Firefly after the show was long cancelled. Back to bare wrists for me, alternatives do not exist. :(
My dad (>60, not exactly tech saavy) has been using Lubuntu for 2 years now (actually I don't even remember when we installed it might be 4 years :P). For many parents who only surf the web and do some non power user office (he uses Libre Office now) and check their mail it's the perfect solution.

For his use case it's more user friendly than the Windows install because of the lack of constant update requests and antivirus stuff etc. etc.
It's also faster on the same machine and the computer doesn't clog down every n month. I still remember that he asked me about 6 month in why the computer doesn't get slower :P

I'm fairly confident that a switch from Windows to macOS would have been a lot harder for him btw. Same for a switch to Windows 10 without making it look like the old Windows actually (not as confident in that statement as I don't know enough about Win10).
You're correct. Microsoft has been Haskell's unofficial benefactor (maybe like Google for Python?)
I think this is actually very constructive criticism and needs to be heard more on HN.
As for you, @grzm, you've been on here for only 60 days, and you're already acting holier-than-thou to someone who has been a veteran HN member for over 5 years now.

Note: parent comment was edited while I was submitting.

I've engaged with a lot of users in the admittedly short time I've been on HN, and have tried very hard to be respectful, civil, and constructive in each of those interactions. If something is coming off as holier-than-thou, that's definitely not my intent. If you'd point them out to me, and suggest a better way of interacting, please do. One of the aspects of HN that particularly appeals to me is that there is the opportunity to have discussions based on their merits, rather than status or seniority.

My comment to 'adrienne was sincere, and it looks like she received it in the spirit it was intended. I've seen a lot of users complain about being down-voted and then be shocked when they're down-voted some more. I'd rather 'adrienne avoid that (as I've done for other users) than get down-voted.
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Using cash via localbitcoins is easy in any reasonably populated area. You pay maybe 3-5% premiums over market price to buy from a professional high-availability seller. You can buy at or below market price if you're not in a rush.
Well, it's locking millions of customers out from the eShop until they do a software update vs. letting a few thousand pirates slip.
I don't think you could call it better than Windows. A lot of wifi cards have issues, and my understanding is that printer support can be pretty bad too.

If you are using a Linux machine I'd still recommend that you double check for driver support on any hardware you buy. You can expect it to be okay but you should still check. You generally don't need to check for Windows, you can just assume and you will be right every time.
There are others, though not all apply to US buyers: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_To_Buy_Bitcoins_With_Your_Cre... (it lists some that accept debit card)
Your Asteria AI project looks pretty sweet.
How does Circle make money? They claim they don't charge for deposits, withdrawals, or sending money. Hidden fees? Future price increases? Stealing customer funds?
This is an excellent example of a bad place and time for this kind of evangelism.
This looks like something I would like to build one day :)

What I woul like to ask is, how do you find your customers?
Especially the enterprise ones?

Because anytime I barely finish something I might be thinking about selling to people (even though I didn' manage to create anything as polished and useful as QueryStorm :) I kind-of freeze at the step "but who would buy this and how would they find about it?"

Often I read that you first need to build an audience, with blog or mailing list, before you start selling something, but it looks like you just built a really cool thing first :)
> The term is called "sell-through" and Apple is one of the few tech companies to use sell-through. It means units actually sold to customers. So no, there is no trick.

Sell-through is a percentage of units sold to customers related to units sent to stores so it doesn't say much without the total amount sent

And apple gives sell-though when they can, iPhone sales are reported as sell-in when they are not sold though Apple Stores
> putting distance between themselves and Bitcoin for a while now, branding their service as a type of social money

Anyone remember dwolla? Probably not. They tried to do the same thing, but it turned out the only reason anyone cared about them was bitcoin-friendliness.

I'm not sure why anyone in their right mind would want to compete in the "social money" market right now given that it's saturated with low- or zero-margin projects, often sponsored by large companies. Square cash, venmo, Facebook cash, snapcash. The only one of the bunch I use is square cash because it's the least "social".
That's mentioned under the "Theories" section, #3 Aggression. It says it's unlikely because they haven't found burned remains inside the houses, or nearby remains that show signs of a violent death.
I do understand that "I'm gonna get downvoted for this opinion, but..." is a form of well-poisoning. It was genuinely not my intention, but I completely understand how what i said looks like that pattern, and that's my own fault.
You want to be defensible, to have a barrier to entry, e.g., to have done some original research that is a bit too obscure for nearly everyone in IT VC and their entrepreneurs, some research that is the powerful, valuable, crucial enabling core of the whole project. That is, want some secret sauce -- no secret sauce, no Big Mac. You want the product/service of your startup to be difficult to duplicate or equal.

If it is really easy for others to duplicate or equal your work, then do some work that is not so easy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13109598
Tons of people have done it, and what the average non-technical user does is trivial on all of those operating systems. Anyway, Linux has half a dozen desktop UIs - referring to the user-friendliness of Linux as a unitary thing just makes it seem like you don't have a lot of experience in what you're criticizing.

edit: The best thing about Linux for non-technical people is that the GUIs don't change radically (for marketing purposes) every year or two. Once you get used to something, you can generally keep it, and changes and modernizations will accumulate slowly instead of forcing an adjustment all at once.
To be fair, I checked your profile. I know you've had an account for a while but you don't comment very often. And yeah, I am trying to be helpful (and welcoming, for what it's worth :)
Have you even used Linux?
>The Gear S3 Frontier manages mobile connectivity and superior UX with a supposed 4. Day battery life

The 4 day battery life (closer to 3 in practice) just about sums its benefits over the Apple Watch. Less features and not as well made, less applications available, and stuck with Tizen. Not so great connectivity options either.

As for the condescending "they don't know about other brands", well, I've followed Tizen development since forever, with Rasterman involved in it et all.
5-10 years? In a company of what size, in what industry? For most "back-office" apps you're talking 2 years for the re-write just to see (almost) feature parity, and another year for the users to be trained and feel comfortable with it. If you were ripping and replacing a non-technical users go-to app every 5 years you'd have revolt.
> 'Failing' in what sense?

Stock down more than 70% year-to-date, and competing in a market that is rapidly becoming commoditized.

Perhaps "failing" is a a strong word, but I wouldn't describe them more positively than "struggling." Like GoPro, Fitbit sells commodity hardware and is not greatly differentiated from its competitors in terms of hardware, software, or platform lock-in (you may disagree, but the consumer market has clearly spoken).
Interest for holding money? I know when they sold Bitcoin, they charged a small markup, similar to what Coinbase charged.
Well, "We designed the WOW! Computer for seniors and baby boomers with little or no experience using computers."

And "The WOW! Computer runs on a Linux operating system we’ve customized to support our touch screen capabilities. We chose Linux to avoid frequent problems with viruses and to provide a more secure, problem-free computer environment. Linux has been developed over the last 20 years by numerous companies and currently runs on millions of computers. In fact, about 60% of all internet servers run Linux."

So ...

https://www.mywowcomputer.com/faqs.aspx
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Any relation to J.B.S. Haldane? I remember in one of my order of magnitude physics classes going through a problem to prove that all animals have a maximum jumping height of ~1 meter. J.B.S. Haldane made that observation in his paper On Being the Right Size:

https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
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>Apple Premium Reseller

Apple premium reseller is an empty designation. It has been given to all kinds of ho-hum retailers judging from my country (where we only have those and no official Apple Store) and a couple of other countries I've worked on.

It just means the reseller passed a few basic Apple criteria, for support, space, etc.

It says nothing about the product line, and being only allowed to sell the latest line up etc.
No, sooner or later an exec swoops in with "this is our largest customer!!!!". It's still a P1, it just gets bumped to the front of the line - because revenue. Nothing wrong with that, and no need for a different numbering system. Their P1 is no different than a smaller customers P1. They just get to be first in line because they pay to play.
I thought the only down-to-earth meaning of unicorn was a startup with a $1B+ valuation, regardless of the number of co-founders, no? [1] Your statement "There'd be no Jobs without Woz and vice versa. Exceptions to this are unicorns." seems to indicate a restriction to one founder for unicorns.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(finance)
I was going to do this but there is only one local seller and he had a huge markup.
There's definitely a satirical tone, but this kind of satire isn't very funny until you're fully aware that these things happen.

I'm sure most people are familiar with the wage fixing scandal in the bay, which is covered here under the "Make a deal with competitors"
Both NeXT and Apple weren't looking so hot in the face of utter dominance by Microsoft and Intel in 1997, but here we are.
According to https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/ the two biggest markets are Poloniex and Kraken. I can recommend Kraken - looks very well thought out and professional.
>yes I know physical keyboards are the best; nevertheless

Citation needed, especially when it comes to mobile use.

The tactility might be good, but touch keyboards are much more flexible and let you free up tons of real estate for more screen in apps that don't need a keyboard.

Shouldn't that tradeoff be considered before one declares what's best?
Just a note -- HN usually does a pretty decent job of catching reposts/duplicates when you submit the story... I've tried to submit stuff sometimes and been notified that it's been posted already.
The top of the article your commenting on puts the number at 18M. The vast majority of those would've been sold at $350+, so even being highly conservative, $300*18M = $5.4 billion in 18 months.
The only reason Linux has occasional issues with hardware support is because people install it on machines that were originally shipped with another OS. The OEM OS likely had all kinds of hardware problems but the manufacturer resolved them before shipping that particular configuration.
Not to mention the father of CNNs.
>and Apple was still unable recapture any foothold

According to whom? The results for this quarter (after Samsung took back the Galaxy) will be published early next year...
It's probably real, but to steal someone else's line, they're "selling like an unspecified number of hotcakes".[1]

And to steal another line (from Steve Jobs, related to Amazon's vague brags of Kindle Sales) - "Usually, if they sell a lot of something, you want to tell everybody." [2]

It would be nice to know the actual quantities of watches being sold from the horse's mouth as opposed to guesstimates from analysts.

[1] http://www.technologizer.com/2010/08/25/new-kindle-is-here-s...

[2] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/in-qa-steve-jobs-sn...
There's a great chance, given that the earth spins back in time to 1999.
Unleash a million of these on Mars, kind of like a scraper crawling websites for data.
Nice way to troll a list of anecdotes. But you are still right.
I would say it's a half-decent example, but I wouldn't put too much trust in that considering it was Steve Jobs the one that made it work, and he was no run-of-the-mill CEO. It's a little like saying that starting a new (successful) car company is easy because Elon Musk did it.
Most likely on the spread.

It's like currency exchange booths that have "0% fees" but the buy price is different from the sell price.
I buy a lot of used, old, obscure things (mostly books). Very often, Amazon is the only place I can find it reliably; my other options would probably be asking my Japanese/German/etc friends to dig through second hand shops and mail it to me.

I love the Amazon marketplace. (I also hate the 3rd party seller feedback emails but I have strict email filters so who cares)
There are hundreds of apps that enable this behavior and an entire industry built around them. I know because I helped refine the UX of one such app.
I think the Pebble brand has decent value. It is positioned as the "first" smartwatch for a niche of users that you can build around. No idea how valuable exactly the brand is as figuring that out seems like witchcraft to me.
Restrict them to installing only from the Mac App Store.
> Mention the dichotomy of strength vs muscle growth. Lower rep range focuses more on strength while higher rep range focuses on muscle growth.

As far as I'm aware there's still no conclusive evidence for rep ranges affecting muscle growth vs strength. I'm well aware of all strength program routines and follow this method myself, but would love a source.
> What? If a person is using a password that contains such a character, they'll know how to type it or at least find it to copy/paste...

I have had to deal with people not being able to type their passwords because a character wasn't on their current keyboard of choice (some people use iPads and don't know how to type a # for example)

> you just need to enable the US-International Keyboard layout (on Windows, I'm sure equivalents exist for other operating systems)

you're giving way too much credit to the knowledge of the average computer user.
You can trade using online banking on localbitcoins, you don't actually need to be local. In fact I've done over 70 trades on localbitcoins, and never met in person for any one of them.
There can be multiple species of unicorn.
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Microsoft should buy pebble. This will give a nice kick to wearables program
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I was thinking the same thing, yet I don't have a sense it is super popular or thing to get for holidays. What I think, without any solid evidence, is that sales are probably higher, but nothing major and that Mr. Cook just formulated this as they need a win of some sorts.

BTW, both android and apple watches are not very practical in terms of battery life. You had Blaze, I had Basis Peak which could do 10 days. I think Pebble is probably the most reasonable solution, unfortunately they just got acquired, so not really sure what will happen there.
Did you read the content yourself? They are saying that the "show before close" is a good thing, so what's the irony?

Read the "Step Into The Light" section.
Sounds like "developer" should be "devil oper", then.