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> I don't disagree with the lesson, but does it always apply? When Jobs came back Apple was in a different place than it is today.

Maybe, but on the other hand there is a lot of similarity between Apple v. Microsoft/PC-cloned on desktop and Apple v. Google/Android-devices on mobile.

And one similarity would seem to be that Apple is in no position to win on breadth and choice, but they may be in a position to win (at least, create a solid, profitable I market where they have little effective competition) by identifying key niches, and narrowly tailoring offerings to them.

In fact, I'd argue that their path in tablets and smartphones has been pretty similar as in PCs; they developed the market ahead of everyone else with fisrly narrow offerings, a competing platform emerged where the core software was separate from hardware manufacturers offering more choice, and drew them into trying to compete on the kind of choice offered by the competition.
He should get that in writing.
Not really, the European funding isn’t that relying on new findings.
They've had those for ages, though...
That article got the numbers backward (or more likely, they used the $100M as shock value, not caring about providing facts). In other words, that $100M was never spent by (RED). On the contrary, it's an estimate of the advertising value that they would have needed, if they had bought themselves all the publicity that their campaign got. See how it's backwards?
Canada Air does! It's great.
Jobs also wanted one phone at one screen size based on some cargo-cult science about average thumb length. Apple was watching its lunch being eaten by people who would have had probably bought an iPhone but wanted the big screens Android has to offer. Thus the multiple iPhone models. He was also against the mini iPad size, which is the only iPad I'm willing to buy.

I think the limited product line is an artifact of the time and place Jobs and Apple were in the early 2000s. They had endless Mac models and a underwhelming value proposition. Cutting that down to a single colorful little Mac and a single pro product and their laptop equivalents made sense. Introducing the mobile revolution one simple product at a time also made sense.

Now they need to continue to make sales, so adding more products to address more niche markets is the only way forward. They've probably exhausted their "one size fits all" market at this point. Apple can't accept no or negative growth, so more niche products it is.
Can confirm. No loss of a relative or friend has yet affected me the way putting my dog to sleep did. I raised him from a pup and he was with me through years of relative social isolation. He was so strong, then weak then I had to make a decision. It took years to get over it. I'd cry when I thought about him, even when certain songs played. Yes it's embarrassing when the death of your dog bothers you more than the death of your father, but that came after years of dementia. I dunno, I guess it isn't a contest
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While I agree, the library doesn't do that. It's just for moving to anchors when e.g. you click a button.
That's not what Habeas corpus is. Contempt is 100% lawful.
Why not simply fire those who they don't want to work with anymore? They're clearly used to do that at IBM and it would be much more controlled and cost effective.
I much prefer it when the kids are running around the restaurant engaging other customers.
I know what you intended, but technically O(1%) == O(100%) == O(5000%)
I've used destructible labels before, not for my computer, but for barcoding equipment. They work quite well, only issue might be wear and tear over time will start to naturally destroy the label.

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The ironic thing is that this creates the very problem it seeks to solve...

If advertisers have no control over which content their ads appear near then they can legitimately claim, when criticised, that they are unable to pick and choose.

By giving advertisers control, when criticised, the critics can use that same control in order to pressure advertisers to limit ads to inoffensive content only (which, frankly, is almost nothing anymore).

But with the direction "being offended" has taken (i.e. someone on twitter will take offense to anything, and they feel they have a legitimate right to never feel offended) it won't be long before most content is inaccessible.
That doesn't work if the extra income is produced by convincing people to donate to your charity rather than others, which I'd bet is often the case. Comparing your first and third examples, that's $9 million that might have gone directly to people in need through a different charity.

I do agree that people who work for charities should be paid, but the overhead needs to be reasonable. I don't know where the line should be drawn, but if a charity has far worse overhead than average, that's probably a problem.
Would this be considered Augmented Virtual Reality?
I would believe that in certain situations in certain jurisdictions that would be possible.
I have known many people who work in companies like Oracle, IBM etc where there is consulting at client location and then report at designated office. Generally reporting at designated office is very lax and people either are at client site or just stay at home. I wonder if tightening remote work requirement is for these people too.

Lately at traditional IT companies even temporarily non-billable resources are increasingly being scrutinized for their output.
Rewardian has a pay-as-you-go rewards platform for small to mid-size companies.
http://www.rewardian.com
> Downsizing this way means your most self-motivated, productive employees are likely to leave long before those who drive to the office because they feel they have no other choice.

Downsizing this way means people with kids or other obligations that make controlling your own schedule convenient are likely to leave long before those who drive to the office because they feel they have no other choice.

FTFY.
Did you read the articles?

The suspect tweeted "I know he has epilepsy" and "I hope he dies."

But sure, a judge and jury could only possibly conjecture about intent…
It's still not that bad.

It's always a version number (ex., 7), the following version they add an 'S' (ex., 7S), then the following version they will increase the version number (ex., 8). "Plus" means bigger, and you can regognize it because it's bigger, "SE" means lower-end, you can recognize it because it costs a lot less.

I currently own a Huawei Y6II, which I read is a clone of the P9. No idea what it means, what the following version will be called, or what the previous version was called.
An issue requesting automatic expiry was created a bit before you commented: https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/issues/14
Then that's good news for those who own the current model, isn't it? It will take longer for their tablet to obsolesce via OS update.
> One thing I've noticed (and irritates me) about Wayland is how now your WM is actually effectively now your DE and your Xserver.

A deliberate design decision intended to keep context switches off the hot path.

It's one of those "just trust me; this way really is better" things. You're sacrificing very little to get an improved graphics stack.
Wouldn't that keep you from being employed for a year after termination? If so, I hope a year's worth of severance is part of your contract.
As the courts have interpreted it, 5A protects you if they can't even prove the safe is yours, or if otherwise admitting that you know the combination or that you know what's in the safe would result in incriminating testimony. 5A doesn't apply here because they know the device is his, and that prior to his arrest he had regular access to it. It's not incriminating testimony, it's delivery of evidence in a criminal trial subject to a lawful subpoena.
For what it's worth, I'll chime in with my personal experience as a white guy who learned Mandarin. 5500 hours is just under two years of consistent 8-hour days. In my opinion, spoken Mandarin is not actually all that difficult compared to other languages once you adjust to the presence of tones (there is basically no conjugation or changing word prefixes/suffixes on the fly, tense uses simple particles, etc.). After 500 hours of classroom study and about 4000 hours of immersion in Taipei and Beijing, I was pretty close to fluency in speaking. I think you probably could be as well.

However, even after all that time I was only able to read and write at an elementary school level. Reading, writing, and speaking any dialect of Chinese are basically three separate skills. You can easily know how to say words and have no idea how to write them, or know the meaning of a character, but not know its pronunciation, or my favorite - be able to easily read an entire sentence, but then only know how to write half the characters properly if asked to write it out 5 minutes later.

So, in my opinion, yes 5500 hours would get you to spoken fluency in Mandarin without too much difficulty. But unless you are really good at memorizing things (I'm not), don't expect to be able to read and write at a native level in that time frame unless you had exposure to written Chinese growing up.
Would you rather have your psychopath stalkers tearing their hair out over the Boost dependency you dragged in? Once written it stays mostly the same, there is not much to maintain. I can't see why rolling your own framework would introduce conflicts; unless you're in an environment where writing code to solve problems is frowned upon, but then you have worse problems.
In an ideal world, I want possession of real CP to be a crime ... that is, if it could stop there. I would be willing to accept that small bit of cognitive dissonance / hypocrisy. I'm very sympathetic to the victims of abuse having their images out there being sold and traded online.

But then you have cases like Handley where cartoons are criminalized (which I consider to be a thought crime), and cases like this story where it's used to basically eviscerate the fifth amendment ... and it really makes it clear: you cannot have exceptions to free speech, or it will continue to grow and gut everything else. It's not a "slippery slope" argument ... the slope has already happened -- we're seeing it right now. An appeals court just said you can rot in jail for the rest of your life if you forget your password. And they're going to get away with it because of the horrific spectre of CP ( parodied well here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdu4wSBZqMM )

As much as I abhor the content, I really believe prosecutors should be going after the producers, the sellers, the people collecting ad revenue off of hosting this stuff, and of course, the actual abusers themselves.

I'd like to see the people with paraphilias they didn't ask for have access to proper counseling, access to anti-androgens, etc.

But we don't live in a country that wants to help people. We live in one that wants to punish people -- even if that results in more victims.
"Can" is the operative word there. I have had experiences similar to your own and for me, the death of my father was much more devastating. But I can imagine less socially connected folks or folks with poor family relationships being utterly devastated by the loss of a pet that is providing unconditional acceptance and companionship.
That's two different stats, weight and thickness. There are no weird units or combination units in play.
This is very exciting. How are you looking at facilitating these collaborations? Will there be a listing of sorts, where, say, ML researchers would say "I need a dataviz guy" and then dataviz specialists can apply, almost like a job (or rather more like matchmaking I guess--bad analogy)?

Or would said facilitation be done by the admins / editors / steering committee? If so, then how do you plan on finding dataviz people? I'm asking this in particular because I would imagine that people who have ML findings to talk about would probably contact you ("I researched such and such, and found such and such. Now I would love to publish in Distill"). But I wonder if data visualization specialists would do the same thing. Contacting with "hey, I love data viz, would love to collaborate with somebody looking for one" feels a little inappropriate to me.

Thoughts?
Uber is arguing that they aren't taking the money, but the driver is. And so the driver pays the vat.

Uber would have to pay VAT on the part they take from the driver though. Uber take what 30%? So if you had a £100 ride, the driver takes up £70. The driver will be under the VAT threshold and so doesn't have to charge VAT. However, Uber's £30 they took from the driver should have VAT. I've heard from drivers that Uber adds lots of fees so I wouldn't be surprised if they actually took £36 from the driver and charged him £6 VAT.

That VAT would go the UK government, but it would be offset by any expenses Uber incurs with VAT.

The UK want Uber to add the VAT before it goes to the driver. So the £100 ride would cost £120. Of which £20 would go the government, and the driver not pay anything (as he is an employee).

So not only are they trying to avoid paying less VAT but they are trying to avoid passing on the VAT to customer, making their prices seem cheaper when compared to people that do charge VAT.

But a black cab wouldn't normally charge VAT either, since they are self employeed and would be under the threshold.
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Inches are not proprietary; they are in the public domain.
It certainly should be, yes. Would have rendered almost identically on the desktop, but rendered properly on cell phones.
This. My wife's MacBook Air is slowly dying and we've been hoping for a 13" MacBook Air with Retina display but it never happened. We went and tried the new MacBook Pro with the touch pad and the 12" MacBook, but she just doesn't like the feel of the new keyboard. This truly disappointed her as she really liked how light her MB Air was and the battery life, but she just couldn't get around the feel of the new MacBook Pros' keyboard. When her laptop finally stops to function, we'll have to choose between a 2015 MacBook Pro 13" or a Windows laptop.
There is nothing proprietary about the inch. It's 2.54 cm. We don't have a secret "reference inch" kept under lock and key that everyone else has to ape with reverse engineering or anything. And it's used with great success in more countries than just the U.S.
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Ask HN: Secure estate planning
I've been going through the process of setting up a will and related documents. The people to whom I am entrusting my children (and thus also my property) in the event of my death are not exactly cybersecurity experts, so I need to maintain a simple way for them to access my accounts without me. I'm thinking about the privacy implications of this. So far the best thing I've come up with is to lock my password manager master password with some basic instructions in a safe that they know how to find and open. I'm okay with trusting them, since I'm trusting them with my children, but I'm still slightly concerned about the privacy risks and their ability to figure out how to access everything through my password manager without my help present.

Does anyone here have better ideas?
This.
Back when there was only one iPhone to buy, it made the decision for the customers really easy: either you buy it, or you don't. But now, you gotta consider different specs and models Apple is providing, and choose from a plethora of devices... When you have multiple options, choosing one gets much difficult.

Now, don't Apple Executives know this already? I guess they do, but what Tim Cook has done so far has been stabilizing the company and increasing the profit (by building various versions of the same product and targeting a broader range of people).

This came at a cost though: making the organization more and more bureaucratic leads to more efficiency, but less creativity and innovation. I think Apple's strategy has changed but in a few years, they're going to need a fresh air in the company or they'll get Nokia-ed.
Possibly a side question:

What do people think of the format? I have off and on been thinking about a format where the video is the main highlight, but is supported, like this one, with links and other media to make it a more engaging experience. Are there other use cases that you think this would be conducive for?
Open a Finder window with some files in it. Hit list view (Cmd-2) ... notice that the text labels do not expand to fit/fill the text contents they contain - you have to do this manually by stretching the window, aligning the list columns manually, etc.

This really should be laying itself out automatically - like if you hit Ctrl-Alt-Numpad+ on an Explorer window on a Windows machine, which has had the ability to present the view in a useful, readable auto-layout .. since 1995.
The Product Red designation usually indicates that the revenues will be contributed, at least in part, to AIDS/HIV awareness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Red
New Twist on Sofa Problem That Stumped Mathematicians and Furniture Movers
Surely this layman knows enough about the brain to know how to lobotomize himself such that he forgets his passwords, but not such that he forgets how to perform a self-lobotomy!
I agree. I think this is first step to separate out people who are unwilling to relocate. Next they will look at the work they are doing, if deemed non-critical I assume they will be first to go.
Being familiar with the client introduces another area of potential bias, removing that allows us to compare the specific variable being tested for.

I'm not entirely sure why the big voices thing is important. It's not like they were saying all the voices had low favourability or that what were perceived as gay voices had low favourability, they were demonstrating a difference between the two groups based on that one variable. Whether they were all high up the rankings or all low down the rankings is irrelevant, you just need them to be all within the same band. It's the difference that is what is being tested for.
In that case it lines up exactly
Don't iPads suck for education or anything other than consuming media?
Sure, but he cut stuff like printers, cameras, and other crazy crap they used to make.

Even when he was still alive they had different-sized iPods, iPads, and more.

Computers have always come in different sizes: 13", 15", and 17". What is the difference between a 13" and a 15"? Does it make it harder to buy? Perhaps, but you wouldn't kill the 15" just so people don't get confused.
>because in the USA employees have the "in the course of employment" as you state but USA independent contractors retain copyright unless they assign it as part of their contract, so about 99% of contracts have a clause to assign ownership and copyright to the client.

I'm not a lawyer either but this is not true in the US afaik. "Works made for hire" are automatically copyrighted by the hirer, not the contractor.

Copyright assignment clauses in contracts exist to remove any potential ambiguity over whether anything supplied to the hirer is technically "specially ordered or commissioned" or otherwise legally qualified as a "work made for hire". It's to prevent situations where someone claims "Well, I actually did that important part of the work without billing for it, so I've retained the copyright and if you use it, I'll sue you." (I've actually had a contractor tell me this before!)

See this circulation from the Copyright Office for more discussion. [0] [PDF]

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf
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Advertisers have always wanted to control the content that their ads appear next to because it determines the efficacy of the ad. If your wholesome, family brand starts showing up on porn or ISIS sites, it doesn't matter that you can say "oh that's out of our control," your brand has already been damaged. Also, if you cost structure is CPM, you probably didn't want to waste an impression on that page.

> (i.e. someone on twitter will take offense to anything, and they feel they have a legitimate right to never feel offended)

Your post was stronger without this straw man. Do you think a real person would say that they have a legitimate right to never feel offended? I don't think so.
I'm wondering if an application like Deep Learning would require a fast interconnect network between GPUs. Without this requirement, upscaling would be much simpler, I suppose.
I agree, and I think that people should be able to make the distinction between legally correct and morally correct. (It's very easy to make a Godwin here)

Is it that uncommon to factor in the situation? I've heard of judges in the Netherlands who find people guilty, but give them just a small fine. Likewise, they might rule that technically, someone is guilty, but that this application of the law is not in the spirit of the law.

In the US, this might be less common. However, Steve Jobs was legally responsible for Apple backdating options in 2006. He plays the "Oh, I didn't know"-card and sure enough, an exception to the law can be made.

However, a woman in Texas was jailed for 8 years for crossing a wrong box on her voting form. Now suddenly "I didn't know" is not a valid excuse.

The law is not that independent. Screwing over someone powerful is likely to yield repercussions, even if it is morally and legally the right thing to do. Screwing over someone without power mostly goes without consequences, so this happens more often.
> The time to clean up the code is when it already does what it should.

1. That's a good way to break it.

2. Typically there is not extra time given to cleanup code, write docs and unit tests.
As a parent, it seems like a glaring omission that most crying is done by babies. It's right there in the article that humans have the "most dependent babies," and signaling behaviors are often repurposed responses, so it's a good starting point to say that crying (with big inhales and audible sobs) evolved as a "baby in distress" alarm, in which a baby makes a lot of noise because it needs help. We go to that place when we feel small or want the kind of support a parent would give.

Babies often don't have tears for the first few months, but I'm not sure that's important. I do think they play a role on the playground, and a lot of the speculation about their effects in social situations sounds right. I don't have any ideas to contribute on why crying is accompanied by tears.

In any other species, wearing a signal that advertises, "I recently lost in a dominance challenge," is a strict liability — an invitation for others to pile on, opportunistically, and attack you while you're down (or else to mentally note that you're no longer a good, strong ally). There's no upside, therefore, to using anything other than a quick facial expression or flash of body language, to show your submission only to the aggressor.

That sounds like an overly harsh picture of non-humans to me! I'm pretty sure at least certain apes help their potentially-non-kin in distress. Humans aren't the only social mammals.