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Ah, sorry, the comments weren't contiguous and so I missed that. I'm not sure what Microsoft acquisitions prove, but I'll continue thinking on it until enlightenment happens.

> More cynically, though, if Apple wanted to shut it down, there are easier ways they aren't above.

It sort of depends on the definition of "shut it down"(see Beats, Swell, FoundationDB, etc.). At minimum, Workflow goes away and rises from the ashes (with a new name) as an automation feature for a future version of iOS. Or, maybe it's just an acqui-hire[1] and they'll start over with a new codebase on something more integral to the OS.

[1] "It seems that in scaling back recruiting efforts, Apple is moving to a staffing model fueled by so-called 'acqui-hires,' or purchases of smaller companies for talent." http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/04/25/apple-reportedly-w...
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You need to provide some more details here. I've been running Idea on 4k panels using FreeBSD, Macs and Linux for 15 months without issue.
I think the wilderness should be primarily left completely alone with light-impact human leisure allowed in certain contexts.

I prefer the US public land approach where different lands are graded for different public uses, and certain areas are off-limits/prohibited to the general public because of practical concerns.

There is a 4300m mountain right by my hometown and while one can hike over much of the mountain and the range that surrounds it, certain areas are off-limits during seasons of the year because the mountain sheep drop and raise their lambs there.

Why not use your drones to turn your cities into gardens?
Alternatively you could use some GPU cloud instances but the end result of that is probably that it ends up costing you more than it would to buy a low-end GPU that you can complete the course with.

It'd be very interesting to see how you do this with an FPGA, that would be quite the accomplishment, especially given the monstrous compute capability that GPUs give, and the communications between high level (say: python) and low level (a GPU or some other co-processor) have all been worked out and debugged for GPUs.

If there is room for FPGA work in there it would probably be some specialized function.

Regardless I'd love a write-up if you do this.
Revenue is an objective measure of usefulness because cash can be traded for any service, it's not the only one, but it is definitely one of the most important.
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> Putting aside that most teams in the world aren't remote, do you seriously need to do that daily?

Have you worked both remote and in person? In person you generally see people every day. Remote you do mot.

> Something more fundamentally wrong is going on if people can't assign work more than a day in advance without stepping on each other's toes.

Not always about assigning work. What if you are working on some task, and to fix a bug you need to refactor something. How do you spread that knowledge? Code review by entire team? Slack blast? Stand-up announcement? Somehow you should want to manage that..

> Daily standups are simply a form of micro-managing, the scrum guys have done a colossal amount of harm to our industry.

Scrum is a tool. It can be used well, and it can be used poorly. There are times when over-communication (what scrum tends towards) is very good. There are times when it is bad. I think remote it can be better to slightly over vs slightly under-communicate.
Aren't music publishers a lot less consolidated than there movie/TV counterparts?
That's how I exported all my private Github projects and cancelled my pro account.
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The part re: colloids is a trade secret at this point, but definitely a real challenge.

As far as we could find, there is no common solution for industrial scale espresso. If someone has one, please post it here. This was a personal obsession of mine last spring - "How does this not exist?!?"

Kalle is the coffee expert, but as the 'non-coffee guy', I have no idea why this wouldn't exist - I would have thought someone out there would need it?
Still waiting on an update that allows for 1080P streaming on Linux. There's been a hard limit of 720P on all content and something like half of 3rd party content is limited to 480P. Everything available in HD streams at 1080P in Windows 10 or using a device like a Roku.

Whatever DRM they are using doesn't seem to be enough for them to be confident in allowing 1080P streaming on Linux, even for their own content.

A brief check in Firefox shows the limitation is there as well.
Substantially more than half of Apple's profits came since 2012. In fact eyeballing it, it looks like their profit in 2015 was bigger than their profit from 1977-2009 combined. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Financ...
> We somehow got away from DRM on audio.

Did we? Look at Apple Music, Spotify, and other subscription music services. They all have DRM.
I don't understand why people watch these pep talk style commentators. If you need someone else to motivate you, I'd seriously question whether or not you have the gusto to make it for the long haul.

Going further... I can't help but wonder if watching this releases some sort of endorphin for the want-to-be entrepreneur. These guys prey on hope, mainly, and by giving these pep talks, I think a lot of of people get temporary hope that if they just dig in, they'll be a millionaire too.

You really need to ask yourself if you're attracted to these motivational speakers: why do you need motivating? The real secret to success, I believe, is digging in to an endeavor you love.
> A lot of this seems to be a problem with academic publishing, peer review, and the pedantry contained therein.

Ayup. It's too annoying to translate the academic speak, but you can shortcut it.

For example, anything CS nowadays (I include crypto in this) must be 1) publicly available on the web, 2) come with running code that runs some basic tests, and 3) be limited to a single compilable file. Failure in any of the criteria means I move on. If the source code involves anything like "configure" it's an immediate fail. If the code passes all three of those criteria, it's probably more useful to read the code rather than the paper.

I used to love ISSCC for the reason that they used to demand both A) a die photograph of a chip and B) actual oscilloscope traces. You can't hide when you have to make test equipment produce data. Sadly, they got rid of that requirement in the late 90's, and the information content of the conference suffered correspondingly.
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Which means they're getting advertisement wrong. I know, it might sound ridiculous given the huge amount of expertise Google has accumulated over years. However, that kind of ad placement mismatch can be a sign that the current advertisement approach (which originated from 90s) on YouTube is outdated and no longer effective. Such misplacement would never happen in Facebook or LinkedIn groups where advertisers can target audience more precisely.
Stop watching, and start doing.

Well, you may continue to watch, but no amount of watching will teach you what you can attain by actually doing stuff.
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Can't help but roll my eyes.

Moved from Google Maps (Latitude) to Google Plus (Android only) to Google Maps.

It wasn't broken, it did a great job and you could access it from the browser. It also gave interesting stats including how far you had traveled and how far to go to get to the moon ( I only got half way there :( ).
There are about a dozen different units that are all called "pounds," and you have to rely on context to know which is meant. When I took physics in high school, pounds were always force (abbreviated lbf) and we used slugs for mass ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(mass) )
This actually made me laugh out loud.
It only needs to be done by one person, not every viewer.

And yes, the value of much of my time is effectively zero. The same is true for most people.
That doesn't surprise me at all. You've cherry-picked someone who's far richer (in absolute terms) than the average person within those 2 billion.

You're probably talking about an American (or a Brit or a French person? Someone in the developed world) who's at least lower-middle-class. Consider someone in an emerging country. For the average Brazilian or Colombian, a U$1000 weave would be far too expensive. And the vast majority of the target population is living in Africa and is much poorer than the average Brazilian.

FWIW, I don't see anything wrong with the startup. I just making a back of envelope calculation that shows the market estimate is BS.
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No, a whole bunch of work was (hypothetically) _not_ done to verify if they were supported or not. I'm not suggesting that it's a good thing, I'm suggesting that laziness, sloppiness, or a simple oversight are just as plausible as malice.

It is _less_ effort to say "We support these specific platforms, and rather than doing actual feature detection, we'll just load a bunch of polyfills to make it work on anything else".
You gotta account for inflation
And I've done that as well now: https://medium.com/rubyinside/the-new-absent-operator-in-rub...

Now to sleep..!
Ask HN: How do you secure your IP camera(s)?
My spouse and I are looking for a good IP/Baby Camera. The Mirai botnet story from last year has me uncertain as to the security of IP cameras.

If you use IP or Baby cameras, what's your setup like, and do you have any advice for a secure setup that doesn't expose yourself to high internet risk?
> Also, some modern watermarking techniques can survive conversions like this, so if anyone is making a habit of recording content from a service using watermarking and redistributing it on a scale that justifies taking serious action, it'll be pretty easy to prove who it was when the lawsuit comes up.

How many compromised netflix accounts do you think are floating around? At some point the bits have to actually go to a display device as well, which can always be tapped.
Amazon recently banned the sale of so-called 'holocaust denier' books (on March 8), seems that youtube is about to follow suit.
I actually like to process of grinding and pressing. Bag space is the only downside, and the reason I don't take my aeropress and grinder with me when I travel.
$70 for a tool you use multiple hours per day is nothing. If you're just a hobbyist or a student I guess I could understand the hesitation but for a professional tool that is dirt cheap.
I think it's this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02373

Direct pdf link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.02373.pdf
Apparently over the last few weeks they've been sending out contracts to the developers of apps they're integrating with to obtain written permission to use their URL schemes. Google and Uber could've just said no or not responded.

This is according to Marco Arment a few minutes ago on the live recording of the Accidental Tech Podcast, who said he was asked to sign this document for his podcast app.
Gitlab manages to do CI (partnering with DigitalOcean), which managed to get me at least partially switched, and has further potential for upsell (have more CI servers! with exotic configurations!)

Not all languages which could significantly benefit from pulling out type info even compile. Something significantly smaller scoped would be to have github's search aware of and consume some kind of intellisense-esque database or structured documentation format that any CI process could output. (Of course, someone needs to write the tools to generate said output in the first place...)
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Yes. You definitely need to market this to the backpacking crowd. They'll blow $100's on light, compact gear and then shove beans + grinder + aeropress on top... and then deal with the mess. Or at least, I will :)

The subscription model isn't great in this respect.

I travel up to a dozen times a year and backpack at least a couple weeks per year (in aggregate).

So that's 3x2x12 (3 cups per day of travel for each work trip) + 3x14 (backpacking trips). And probably another dozen or three here or there for random stuff (full-day bike rides, long drives, run out of beans @ work, etc.)

If I like Sudden, and especially if it's better than Starbucks drip served at airports, I'd use it for all of these things.

But I'm not going to+ sign up for a subscription because the vast majority of the year I'm happy with my espresso machine at home and decent drip at work. It's not like hygiene products where I just need a steady drip. My demand for instant coffee is very bursty. I expect that's true of others as well.

Maybe the logistics just don't work out without a subscription model, which is fine. And I certainly won't pretend to know what I'm talking about. But you're definitely losing one potential customer by forcing me to do a monthly subscription :)

Also, something is confusing in your ordering page. How many servings of coffee do I get for $19? I feel like that'd be useful information to have somewhere on the order page. Is it 8 cups of instant grounds? Or enough instant groups for 8 "cups" of coffee?

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+ well actually, I am to try it out. But I won't mess with starting/canceling the subscription in the future. If you gave me a way to schedule things though, that would convert me for sure, assuming I enjoy the coffee.
Please do a carbon dioxide extracted decaf!
>> Failure in any of the criteria means I move on. If the source code involves anything like "configure" it's an immediate fail

What do you mean by this? Surely some things require some configuration. Don't they?
This might work for most people in five to ten years.

Today, Spotify's algorithms couldn't figure out that I might be interested in a new album released by one of my most-listened-to bands last year. I didn't know about it until seeing it on Wikipedia, of all places, since I rely (over-rely) on Spotify for discovery.

Netflix is great at telling me I might be interested in stuff I've heard of but intentionally not watched cause I'm not interested in it despite superficial similarities with stuff I do like. They seem rather useless at detecting that I like a certain type/style/"quality" (this is too pretentious, but I can't come up with a better word at the moment) of movie/show regardless of genre rather than a certain set of genre tags.

And so on.

What I wouldn't do to get most machine-learning curated recommendation engines with human-curated ones.

Think of it as the difference between reading The Wirecutter and buying based on whatever Amazon.com's homepage pops up.

Or comparing a daily digest of The New Yorker with whatever shit articles Facebook bubbles up to me.
It already knows if you are using Android. Assuming you didn't turn off location history. I left it turned on because: a) Google finds out where I am in many ways and b) it actually is more than just for diagnosis, so it provides me better results etc.
> I don't understand the constant focus on the upcoming automation crunch. Efficiency improvements (through automation and otherwise) have been happening over the past several decades - more output with less jobs - where the majority of the benefits go to the owners of the clockwork.

Before, automation only impacted the jobs of blue collar workers so nobody cared. Now it impacts the jobs of white collar workers so everybody is starting to whine.
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Not alot of detail in the article. This profile by Forbes is a bit better IMHO.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2015/03/25/how-ventu...

He arguably had one of the most successful funds ever created. Just have a look to see how many of the names he's invested in you recognize.

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-sacca/investments

He is a hustler's hustler. In both the good and bad sense.

He goes into this alot on this podcast http://tim.blog/2015/05/30/chris-sacca/
What keeps DRM in play though is it is illegal to distrbute tools to circumvent DRM

So company like Slysoft, Replay, the devs of DeCSS, etc get sued out of existence when they create software that circumvents DRM

the cat and mouse game of DRM only works if you have government legal backing hamstringing the anti-drm crowd.

With out Anti-Circumvention laws there would be software on the open market to bypass every known DRM about 48 hours after it is release if not sooner
There are tradeoffs in specificity and privacy. If the gap becomes an existential threat to google they can and likely will adjust.
> Well money will talk eventually. Advertisers will win.

I would imagine they will come to some middle ground. Can advertisers afford to not be on YouTube much less AdWords or DoubleClick properties?
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Actually, if you consider programs that can be considered art, like video games, that may create an infinite demand for programmers, because the demand for art is infinite. In art, the fact that something has never been done before can be the sole justification for doing it.

With respect to creativity becoming more important relative to technical ability-- I think that both will be important.
1) Why don't you think it's physiologically therapeutic, too? As I note in another comment, we have to correct drug studies for the placebo effect because we actually get better if we believe we're going to. Breathing changes can modify mood. Maybe this is incorrect, but I'm certainly not going to accept it serves no physiological function without any sort of proof.

2. I believe you are misunderstanding his point, which is, "inherently they're just a piece of social technology, a device for coordinating the tradeoff between dominance and social support."

2b) You undermine your point #1 by pointing out that the "symptoms" are arbitrary. Out of the thousands of possible responses, why tears + weeping? There are more effective signals, and other social animals acknowledge dominance & submission differently. That would suggest crying has a reason beyond social signaling.

3) I don't think exercise is a poor analogy here, but let me be direct: crying could have a direct or secondary neurological effect on mental state that doesn't have an analog in other animals.
Working on it - either that or Swiss water.
Atm, the focus is clean room, but real time/user metrics are on the horizon—especially when the company is more than just me!
It's already possible to swap the battery pack on a Tesla Model S faster than a gasoline car can be refilled.[1] That is special equipment, but presumably modular batteries that are quickly bolted into a large cavity on the underside of a plane would be possible. It might only make sense in hubs, or highly traveled routes to put the equipment in place, though. Slower charging when the plane is on the ground overnight at a regional airport for example probably wouldn't be a problem.
Oh man, I just finished reading Children of Time[1] which involves sentient spiders. One of the main characters was named Portia.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29776274-children-of-tim...
The sim operators would be gods. It is gods all the way up, but not the sort of gods that most religions imagine.
I'd be curious of the ramifications if Google were to retaliate by delisting their sites from the search index or direct to competitor sites.
I would love to have this when I'm on a flight!

There might be some customer facing bigcos with a service component that might buy into this as a differentiator, especially in their premium cabins.
As for gay sex spreading AIDS I gotta burst your bubble but sharing needles among heroin addicts has a similar to GREATER transmission rate. Also, having sex unprotected whether it's homosexual or heterosexual produces exactly the same results.

A simple glance at the CDC stats suggests that gay sex is actually far more dangerous than heterosexual sex. Receptive anal sex is about 2x as dangerous as sharing needles.

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/overview/ataglance.html https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/riskbehaviors.html

I'll speculate that knowing the truth does not change your views at all, right?

There's nothing sectarian about excluding those who support state violence as a means to destroy democratic processes and free association of various ethnic and religious groups. Nazism is by definition incompatible with a free and (classically) liberal society. You can either have Nazism or you can have liberalism. You cannot have both. They're matter/anti-matter in terms of analogies (most apt IMO).

The same was said of papists and is currently said of Muslims. But I guess sectarianism against groups that you dislike is good, while all the other kinds are bad.
His Patreon page[1] shows he only receives $762 in donations a month, less than a third of what he needs to keep from eating into his personal savings.

Sad given how much a modern filesystem would help Linux : (

[1]: https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs
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I use Timely every day and it's updated regularly!
Thanks for the perspective; nicely put.
Amazing how often just replacing a std::vector with a gap buffer vector implementation will get both the benefits of vector storage combined with good insert/delete behavior (presuming locality of such operations which is often the case, especially when doing something that scans through the array).
One take away I got from this is the immense value of great content marketing.

Especially for software, the best content marketing is an immense value to the community, helping it understand core ideas and adopt new technology more easily.
We run into this a fair bit of the time with Hyperscan. One particularly noxious anti-pattern that can arise is the "prefilter that isn't" anti-pattern: specifically, a multiple stage pipeline where the initial stage is meant to filter out some portion of false positives when feeding to a more expensive check, but isn't doing its job.

The painful thing is that the expensive check downstream winds up doing everything, but the code still "works" because the expensive check is the only necessary part (well, as long as the pre-filter isn't totally hosed and isn't producing false negatives).
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I really hope some new species of Portia spider gets named P. icarus or P. rorscharch or something. Probably 90% of the people I meet who know of Portia learned about it from reading Echopraxia (or from talking to people who'd read the book.)
So Russia is slashing its military budget. But no reason to despair. Putin's good buddy Trump is planning on getting rid of the economic sanctions, and doing everything possible to help get Russia's economy growing. So soon Russia will be able to get back to its modernization program.

And Trump's stated reason for all this? It's so that Russia can use new nuclear sub's and other weapons to help us fight Isis.
Is it time to close the door on the open office?
This is cool, but I've never understood why people like the C64 palette. It looked washed out to me.

I guess people grow to like the look of the machines they have fond memories of. (Apple II, Coco, Sinclair)

The Amiga was the first machine to really impress me with its pallete.
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