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I take the alternate approach to this, which is to let the compiler warnings (and other related tooling, like static analyzers) drive how I write the details of my code. I think it leads to a higher average code quality than the micromanagement approach where the details need to be perfect. In particular, as soon as you have multiple contributors, people tend to have inconsistencies in how they prefer doing things. Having some tooling enforcing all this really helps in killing unproductive arguments :)
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It doesn't even really have to do with google certs per se, it has to do with certs in general and the situation probably would not be different if the bad certs had nothing to do with google.

There are rules for inclusion in Google's cert store, and those rules were broken IIRC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider

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The problem is that 'informed' and 'consensual' are not as clear as they might seem to be. How does one judged whether another person was properly informed and whether the act was sufficiently consensual?
Nothing wrong with buying pokemon bracelets. This is the sort of thing Amazon should excel at. Where else would you get that product? Instead, you're left with a frustrating experience simply because there's no reliable mechanism for checking the authenticity of the product and/or the reputation of the seller prior to purchase.
>> In 1990 no one thought there would be a global network for anyone and everyone that would change the world a few years later.

> The prevailing discussion in the late 80's/early 90's on the tech boards (BBS) I frequented were all talking about networking and how computers were one day all going to be interconnected.

That's obviously a fairly small subset of people, though.

(On a separate note - I'm curious, do you recall if they thought it was going to be "a network for anyone and everyone"?)

I remember when the web started becoming popular and that there was a lot of discussion about whether it would be passing fad, so it was far from obvious to a lot of people then.
We invited exolymph to repost this since it's new reporting based on a recent HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546.
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I don't think it's cross-platform, though. At least, not yet. (Would be happy to be mistaken)
True! Too late to edit now... ditto with "festures" :P
>> In the 1950's the President of IBM supposedly said there was a market for maybe 5 computers in the world.

But in 1965, when there was a viable path to scaling the technology, Moore predicted moore's law and personal computers being sold next to cosmetics: http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/82372000/jpg...

>> whatever will happen next will be a surprise to most people

Most people ? sure. But there are enough people to see a coarse vision of the future, or at least reasonable guesses.
We don't think about it because we don't want the guilt and there is next to 0% chance of actually doing something about it. Well, for most of us anyways.

We're stuck with feel-good non-sense such as "Pray For Paris", "Hashtags", "Rainbow-color our profile pics" and "Take a picture making hearts with our hands" type of stuff. Even petitions don't work, because our leaders are not beholden to them and they're the ones with the real power.

However. The reality, is that for most of us, we're 100% good towards those around us and those that depend on us. The tragedy is making it seem like that is not good enough. For not caring enough to do something for someone half-way around the world that we never seen or interacted with. That is why the above feel-good nonsense is so widespread: we just want to get rid of the guilt that is being artificially imposed on us.
I didn't notice that before, I wonder what file extension it's incorrectly assuming are smalltalk? There is a whole lot of '.S' files in there, I wonder if it's those?
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"How about the opposite of innovation? A new generation of dumb phones that reminds you who's the real boss in life. My ideal one would be"

I used a "moto fone" (motorola F3)[1] until one year ago, when the last one I had died.

It is a fantastic size and form factor and I liked it so much I accepted the downside of no smart features at all.

I would love an updated version of this phone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone
The thing is, innovation may create new things that we hadn't though of, and that we couldn't appreciate the benefits of until we experience them.

I think that's the usual way it happens.
Sorry if I was unclear. What I meant was that 'system of mass torture and killing' is not a fact, but an opinion. I know plenty of people who find torture and killing abhorrent, but honestly don't believe this applies to the animals we eat.

Personally I disagree with that point of view, but it's a relatively common one and I do believe it should be acknowledged.
Four or five times in a row, I bought what were supposed to be genuine Samsung batteries for my SGS4, and every single one was a counterfeit. Each time I had a chat conversation with Amazon, explaining the situation and each time I was told "an investigation" would be done. Ex: https://www.amazon.com/review/R1OV6G6YE4TXFZ/ref=cm_cr_rdp_p...
Pale Moon ;)

It'll support XUL when Firefox drops it.

I've used Tree Style tabs too long to give it up.

UI doesn't constantly change. The UI is pre-Australis. This is one of the reasons I moved to Pale Moon.
First, I'd appreciate it if you could dial civility up just a little bit. Even among friends at a bar, I'd be taken aback by a retort like "I'm sure you think that's an argument".

Second, the issue here is much simpler than you're implying it is. You can't have a work function among executives at a strip club. It's not hard to see how doing that would exclude women. That's what this particular Uber executive is complaining about.

If you'd like to argue that this was in no way a work function, I think we'd be on solid ground to debate something where reasonable people might disagree. I'm less convinced that it's reasonable to disagree about whether companies should be allowed in practice to stage work events at strip clubs.
We share our experience in the past but I must disagree on eve. Eves development is comparable to the one of WoW where it was nice to play in the early stages and only if you look back now, it looks terrible. Eve grew on something that was fabulous back then already. I know...I was hooked.

What we have with SC now is the shattered result of all those terrible management decisions and a CEO who does not take the critics serious (probably also because of this one popular "critics" criticism). I'm not sure if anything good can grow from this but I'm pretty sure some huge changes in management could help out here to at least get a clear and realistic target.

They owe it to the backers even if the loudest of them don't care. This is a project which will be an example for others. Future will show what kind of example...
Lots of interesting responses here, thank you all.

I want to clarify that in my parent post, I was only brainstorming the ideal features of a (not necessarily cheap) sophisticated dumb phone, from my perspective.

Other people may have different basic needs – I suggested in a later post (probably nested at the bottom now) that perhaps a modular approach could be a workaround; the customer can opt to add (program in) extra features to this most basic phone, if they so wish to.

As some of you have noticed, there are contradictions in my wish list, but that’s OK – if this idea is to be taken further, then for sure there will be many iterations before the optimum design can be found. There’ll be some compromises, but I’m confident that with our current (and future) technologies, ticking off that list may not be as hard as it sounds.

The way I see it, this new kind of phone doesn’t really belong to the general trend: decades ago, we started with really dumb, clunky phones, then gradually phones get more sophisticated to the extent that most of our lives are centred around it – the trend is almost logical and linear, and you can reasonably anticipate the next generation.

But this one is more like a niche branching off it. As some of you have pointed out, why not just get a basic phone and make sure that you don’t bloat it? Completely valid point. But I’m a typical millennial: I want control and minimalism, but I also want it to be pretty. You know, a ruthlessly stripped down phone, combined with sensitively designed UX, Apple aesthetics and a swish of 2020 originality. And super-powers, like advanced voice recognition, materials, encryption and so on. Yeah it’ll be cheap …

This phone is defined JUST phone. It’s a new philosophy, where it bypasses the overwhelming mass of technology options today by just sticking to the fundamental purpose of the tool, and keeps covering your ass in emergencies. It’s an OCD-ish dream of a lifestyle, where you are in control, in the moment, while remaining chic. You can call it a new vanity if you like.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines. Nationalist politics are off-topic and unwelcome here, and the incivility you've been displaying is not acceptable.

Posting like this will eventually get your main account banned as well.
It doesn't mean there isn't any improvement. Phone cameras are getting so incredible now that you really don't need to carry a P&S and with things like HDR+, OIS, 4k video you'll get better results.

People have been saying that smartphones replaced cameras for years, but now they are not just a replacement but actually better.

There has still been innovation with dual cameras, finger print sensors, laser focus, better LED flash, USB type C and monthly Android security patches will probably encourage people to upgrade after they reach EoL for a device.
Well I hope there is an extension to get those options back as I used them regularly to to "reset" after I've solved a problem or moved on to a new ticket and see I've got some 15 tabs open for research that I no longer need. Really they are removing this and leaving in "Bookmark all tabs"? Are you kidding me, what a stupid thing to leave in if you are so concerned about context menu space...
The social conflict would be the same as combining IBM, Dell, and Google.
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Idea just popped into my head. A chatbot for litigation lawyers to help them prepare for their argument in court, like an arguebot!.....maybe even useful in the courtroom telling you when to object? like or dislike?
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I was at Mountain Equipment Coop and bought a bunch of outdoor gear, and they refused to give me a plastic bag, so I had to walk home 15 blocks with an awkward armload of stuff. They punished me for walking and not burning any fossil fuels to make my purchase unlike most people who drive there in there SUVs. I had it in mind to explain to the clerk the triviality problem with regards to responsible environmental stewardship and recyclable plastic bags, but I opted to grin and bear it.
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I have both. I feel iOS lack in certain areas compared to android.
I saw 'I am not your Negro' (which the article is largely about) a couple weeks ago; it's fantastic. It's mainly am unpublished Baldwin piece on the deaths of MLK, Malcolm X and Medgar Evers read by Samuel Jackson.

There's a good deal of media and especially cinema criticism in the piece; looking at American culture through The eyes of it's film. The movie incorporates clips of many of the pieces referenced, ones I'm a generation to young to know, which helps bridge the generational gap. It's an excellent technique.

And the subject matter - extrajudicial killings of black men - is still extremely relevant, of course.
This post is going to be visible when people search for info about your company and co-founder. Do you want clients to be able to find all this info about your company? It makes it sound like it might collapse any time.
I've been reasonably happy with a laptop I've had running Windows 7. Then it stealth-updated itself to Windows 10. I turned off most of the ads, but the lock screen still had ads. I had to turn of some service with an incongruous name to kill those but Cortana still shows up on the lock screen telling me to talk to it. Like I'm going to do that?

Also, the start menu is all fubared. I end up using search from the start menu, which works but is really slow. I'll get the search box and type something into it and it's 30 seconds to a minute before my text shows up there, usually missing the first 2-3 characters I typed... but not always.

Microsoft needs to have a good hard look at why they had so much trouble moving people off of XP. It's like they hit an inflection point there with the least amount of suckage.
Although not the point of the article, I find it upsetting that someone could link my HN comments to an article, as was done here to another HNer.
> My issue had nothing to do with the product itself

You sound hesitant, but I don't think you should be. Your issue has to do with the product you received after clicking "buy" on an amazon product page. That page may say Quickbooks 2017 from Intuit, but there's no necessary relationship between what the page says and what you're buying, and when they're different you should rate what you were sold.
Are you sure they weren't just trying to upsell you on a nice bag?
To jam an active radar signal you must overwhelm the returns from the jamming targets active radar with your own transmissions. There are weapons systems that are designed to home in on these emissions and use them for targeting e.g. HARM. With the advent of networked multispectral frequency hopping radars you would have to have a tremendous power source to jam radar in any geographically significant area and then those power sources become large juicy targets. So it is not usually a long term solution to jam modern radar but you can gain a temporary tactical advantage.
"During 2016, the VC sector provided $24.9 billion in financing, down 27.6 percent from the $34.4 billion in venture investing in 2015, according to the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and CB Insights."

$10B and 28% are hard to ignore.
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Right. My bet has been that they've done the math and handling returns works out to be cheaper for them than stopping the comingling issue.

Another aspect is that it's not always obvious that you wound up with a counterfeit. I've had products where the longevity was not what I expected and when I look more closely it was in fact a fake. However by that point it isn't worth returning.
Thanks, appreciated. I only have two "Learn Japanese" and "Learn Korean in x days" books for dummies.

Fixed
I'm going through apps on my phone and can hardly think what any of them would use Unicode filenames for. Say, a messenger might use user's nickname to name a history file — that would cause one-time loss of history, but not break the app. What else?

Something tells me practically no apps will be seriously affected.
Just a fun fact, wholesale power lines are about $1mm/mile.
Silicon Valley tech workers are talking about starting their first union in 2017
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I'd like to say there is a budget. It's mostly whatever looks interesting budget. But I DO limit myself to only board games.
> I increasingly think that augmented reality is the next fundamental platform shift.

I read these articles and everyone seems to be operating from the assumption that a fundamental platform shift is inevitable and coming within the next few years.

Is it really unthinkable that smart phones that you carry around in your pocket are the dominant platform for the next 50+ years?
It's hard to optimize your code if you made bad decisions about memory layout of your data structures in the past.
The big difference is that most board games are already feature-complete before they start fundraising. I had a friend do a KS board game and the game had been played hundreds of times (on hand-written index cards &c.) before the fundraising started.

All that was needed was the manufacturing, and the costs for about 98% of what goes into a board game are fairly well established.
Very few Uber drivers are likely to be carrying insurance that would cover any claims. The reason being is that standard personal auto insurance excludes use of the vehicle for commercial purposes, and insurance that does cover commercial use is significantly more expensive.
What's the definition of short take off? In the video, it appears to lift off from a stand still.
I think the trick would be to suggest suitable pictures per paragraph based on NLP. If to take the highest rated content, there would already be a (biased) learning set available.
I was looking at a Dohm sound generator on Amazon and most of the top reviews are 1 star reviews stating that the item shipped and sold by Amazon (not fulfilled by, sold by) was showing up as a cheap counterfeit. Made in China (instead of the US), fan rattling within a few days, fake UL approved sticker, etc. Amazon refunded their money but didn't appear to care about the issue, likely due to the inventory mixing between fake sellers and Amazon that seems rampant these days. I decided to buy it from the manufacturer's own site directly and cancelled the order I had just placed for vitamins to buy elsewhere.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13952573 and marked it off-topic.

The first question was fine of course but the political flamebait in the rest predictably took over.
Statistics of accidents with human drivers also include a lot of humans who are banned from the road and sometimes even imprisoned for not driving safely enough; the average human could and should be driving a lot better than those statistics. And in many jurisdictions, there's an expectation that a commercial driving service is much better than the average person permitted to use a car. If the service aims to reduce transport costs to the extent that vastly more journeys are taken before - which Uber certainly does aspire to - then its autonomous vehicles can significantly increase the numbers dying on the roads even if they actually do have a persistent and statistically significant per-mile safety advantage over human-driven cars.

And if I'm a regulator tasked with reducing road deaths, the question I'd be asking wouldn't be "is this car's autonomous mode marginally better than the average driver so Uber can cease paying drivers and hit profitability?", it's "is the human behind the wheel of a car operating in [semi]-autonomous mode no longer preventing a statistically significant number of crashes?" (or "is telemetry suggesting their interventions are actually responsible for more accidents than they prevent?"). Just because a car is a lot safer with a computer behind the wheel than a car with the average person and no computer behind the wheel doesn't mean that permitting autonomous vehicle operators to rely on technology alone is a safety improvement.
https://www.google.com/flights/
i wonder what percentage of these game kickstarters actually resulted in a respectable finished product.
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I can't find a complete list, but as I recall, the majority of the accidents consist of Google's vehicles being rear-ended while slowing down to yield at intersections.
Definition of candid:

1) free from bias, prejudice, or malice
2) indicating or suggesting sincere honesty and absence of deception
not just sellers.

i purchased clearly counterfeit bicycle brakes whose bolts were mystery metal. that's a legitimate safety issue; having a bolt shear off under braking load is very possible, and the results are pretty catastrophic.

amazon didn't especially care.
"However, police said there was a passenger in the self-driving car. The person was behind the wheel but it's unclear whether they were controlling the SUV or not."
I think Elm is great, but the language designer has really crippled it IMO by not including abstractions for types. Something analogous to typeclasses would be hugely beneficial. As it is the language gets around it by making some built in things magic, I found this frustrating after a while.
That's not really possible without modules and a first-rate dependency injection framework.
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I don't know what you mean.

In Ruby, MRI multiplexes over async IO if you use sync IO primitives, and using async IO directly is not a problem.

In any case, most of my code wait on external events (clients, databases) so it's very rare for the Ruby part to be worth optimising. I spend a lot more time doing things like optimising database indexes and the like.

Of course there are plenty of areas where the balance there would be very different.
Capitalism does not necessarily imply in slavery, actually some could even argue the opposite: that a desperate mass of 'free' people feeds and operates the economical machinery in a much better way. That was the breakthrough of the Ford model (workers that could buy cars).

Of course, assuming that you meant the classical meaning of the word slavery.

This does not invalidate your general argument though.
I've spent hundreds of dollars on nice bags at MEC over the years, I just didn't have any of them with me at the time.
There is a significant difference within different roles in I.T. As someone who's worked in the cost center side of the industry, I can relate with the author. It's a problem not limited to Oakland or San Jose. Helpdesk, Desktop Support, and related jobs are commonly temp to perm with horrible pay for the amount of stress.
This statistic seems like obvious evidence of racism.
> As a November 2012 High Admiral backer

i suppose this correlates with the major emotional investment.
...and we're hiring! Want to come work at Yahoo? Sunnyvale office :)
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Counterfeit products seem to becoming a near universal problem. It's not just amazon, but other marketplaces (eBay, taobao etc). Even seems like major electronic component suppliers fall foul of this sometimes (digikey).

I can really only see three solutions:

1. We just buy everything direct from the supplier. Companies like amazon manage distribution.
2. We provide tools to allow the consumer to track the supply chain process. Products shipped with unique QR code, printed at the of manufacture? Users able to verify that this product was actually manufactured by the stated supplier. Could be an interesting startup idea?
3. Consumers get better at evaluating products on their own merits. Verifying battery capacity, performance etc.

3 is basically what you have to do if you purchase anything in Shenzhen markets. You can't just trust a particular supplier, or even that one batch has the same performance characteristics as the last.
On the other hand, lack of some protection against competition, or a reasonable business model, often stop the the serious investment needed to take many products to market.

Maybe an interesting useful compromise, would be to build a patent pool(maybe between universities), where you must contribute any patent you develop, but you can use patents freely for research and small scale commercialization - but in any case of large scale commercialization, you agree to share some reasonable percent of royalties among the relevant patents of that pool , with the amount that goes towards each patent doesn't interefere with your business, and gets settled in a fair, sideway process ?
One squidPhone7, please.