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Amex certainly exists in Europe, but I am not sure if they are active in all European countries. I use the Amex card from KLM myself: https://www.klm.com/travel/nl_en/flying_blue/flying_blue_ame...
While accurate is seems disingenuous to lump $35 devices in with $150-$200 devices and then pretend total units shipped is the only thing that matters (as if Mercedes was a failure for selling fewer cars than Yugo in 1987). Apple could easily make a media stick if they wanted to, but they don't. They used to sell Apple TV's at $100, marked it down to $70 while they phased the cheaper models out and now only sell them at $150 and $200.

Roku had $400 million in revenue in 2016[1] which includes content share while Apple TV produced a billion dollars of revenue back in in 2013 [2]. And Apple's margins are way higher than Roku's. Apple TV, while a self described 'hobby' by Apple (presumably when compared to iOS/Mac), was and still is a very successful product in a category it basically invented.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roku,_Inc.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_TV#3rd_generation
I don't know anyone I do regular business with that doesn't accept all four.
The risk is that you might be less useful than someone who is particularly adept at system design.

It seems most problems are actually not sorting, searching, or finding the optimal whatever. Maybe it's just the bubble I work in, but from my perspective it seems that most programmers aren't addressing a problem of the form, "the obvious solution to this well-defined problem is too slow, please have a clever insight that leads to a faster one."

The problems we work on are instead of the form, "please model this sprawling and subtle domain with reasonable fidelity and in a way that'll handle future changes to the domain."

"Please satisfy these five dozen individually trivial requirements in a way that gets every corner-case interaction exactly right, and won't turn into a nightmare when there are a dozen more next quarter."

"Please decompose this problem in such a way that 10 different people can work on it in separate parts of the codebase in parallel."

"Please take this problem that's solved for one machine and make it work over an arbitrary number of machines, and make it reliable under all the weird and abusive scenarios that a few years of usage in production can manage to throw at you."

"Please design a monitoring and dashboarding strategy that will identify all outages immediately while not overwhelming the oncall with false alarms, and provide first-class instrumentation, debugging, and remediation tools so that someone new to the codebase can find out exactly what went wrong and fix it in the middle of the night.

It's not at all uncommon to deliberately ignore the optimal algorithm in favor of the readable algorithm. We usually try to keep cleverness behind the curtain of abstraction (RDBMS, standard library, etc). Of course, someone has to build them, but then they are widely reusable.

Of course, people who can do all of the above while interacting fluently with the code for the optimal algorithm are so incredibly highly paid in the Bay Area that they can buy houses.
>> Or maybe you think people doing competitive programming are damaged. This is nuts.

I don't see how that is implied by GP's comment. It is one thing to read between the lines, but now you are reading between the characters.
And massages and showers and fast wi-fi
Imagine going back to the early 1980s and seeing people argue that the personal computer market was too crowded, and there was no way anyone was ever going to make any money in it. The whole thing had played out. Big companies owned the software market. Big companies owned the games. Big companies owned the peripherals. What could possibly be left?

Wait, what's a laptop? What's a workgroup server? What's email? None of those things had really happened, they were all markets just over the horizon about to explode onto the scene.
Agreed. The solitary exception being if someone's is the same as mine.
From their website, http://startup52.com/

>Because we are founder-centric, we place huge emphasis on the capabilities of the founding team and then the diversity profile. For accepted non-diverse teams, we work with you to help you diversify your team with your next hires.

This seems like the most blatant disregard of meritocracy in the tech world yet, and particularly as they're not just employing for a position in which a slight better performance by a less diverse candidate would hardly affect the success of the company, but instead it's an accelerator which is betting entirely on a small number of individuals to have the skill-set necessary to build a billion dollar company.
First,who dies Uber think it is circumventing the medallion sytem that taxi companies must abide by.
Second, who does Apple or Google think they are by imposing dangerous obstacles on us on our roadways.
A friend sold a company to a Dot Com for stock at its peak. S/he factored the strike price. During the waiting period, the stock tanked. So, s/he got significantly more than what the stock was worth.
Don't test me! Maybe I'll make a list of all the innovators and world changers that went conveniently forgotten last year.
I hope they improve things on the iMac as well. The situation with the current iMacs is ridiculous. The 27 inch iMac has user-accessible SO-DIMM slots, but the 21 inch iMac has the memory glued on.
Only if you do it on twitter.
And yet, the companies that still exist from that time still have major (typically non-manufacturing) presence in SV.
I must be poor. I had zero clue at all that having an Amex was prestigious in any way.
The Blue Cash Preferred is at a $95 annual fee right now.

I have the original Blue Cash, that I've refused to trade in because the new versions are no where close. The rules are a little wonky... 1% cash back on groceries, gas, and drug stores until you spend $6500, then 5% back after that. Other purchases are .5% / 1%. All with no annual fee.
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He wasn't in police custody when they first 'deboarded' him from the plane.
good question tho can be worded better :D

any FAQ / past answer from mod?
It's exactly like the cyberpunk future I've read about in novels.
Sadly there's no way to disable having it power the TV off without also disabling the ability to control the TVs volume.
How much fully refurbished iPhone 6S will cost here?
Not a book but you should definitely watch Erlang the movie. It's on YouTube. Then watch erlang the movie 2, it's hilarious.
Hi Adam, thanks for your work on WebMIDI and AudioKit.

I am currently experimenting with the current Midi functionality in AudioKit along with a Swift music theory library https://github.com/danielbreves/MusicTheory to compose and sequence music. Using Audiokit to send Midi events to Logic pro

Does/will WebMIDI support any kind of Automation events through an easy to use abstraction? Thanks again
Oh I understand the PR reasons. But given the importance of sex as a motivating factor in art (not least if you want to count the entire activity as a variety of reproductive signaling) I am very troubled by the notion of making a tool which restricts the scope of acceptable subject matter.

I know this is just an experiment right now but I want to put sex/nudity on the table as a subject of debate because it is central to artistic endeavor because arbitrary standards can become almost universal and institutionalized through path dependence (such as the QWERTY keyboard you are probably using right now). Imagine a not-too-distant future with a Magic Brush that easily allows you to paint the colors and shapes of your choice with the aid of some technological wizardry, but prevents the creation of nude or sexualized figures. That would not be a healthy development.
the 68k family did not maintain total binary compatibility for supervisor mode from chip to chip. this was a pain.

the 24 bit addressing thing, yeah, that was a hazard as well.
From a nice Alan Kay's post:

There were key figures. For example, Parc would not have succeeded without Bob Taylor, Butler Lampson, Chuck Thacker, and a few others.

The link: https://www.quora.com/What-made-Xerox-PARC-special-Who-else-...
Being able to state another's position correctly even when you don't agree with it is also a wonderful learning tool. Not only do you understand their mindset, but it also tests your own mindset for any holes in your thinking and provides a direction to move your thoughts if warranted. The problem is making sure you are actually stating someone's opinion correctly and not just paying it lip-service. I can see how having a 3rd party would be really, really helpful.
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One thing a good manager can do to help your engineering team is ask each one: "Is there anything that is getting in the way of you being able to do work now?". Good communication fixes a lot of problems.
> ...that can be regulated:

And in the interest of further eludicating those those that are unfamiliar with the nuanced manner in which courts use the term "free speech," I would say:

"That can be regulated, just like all other forms of free speech."

Even protected categories of speech like political speech can be regulated assuming the government interest passes strict scrutiny.
I'm saying that it violates the spec if you enable it. It's not undefined behavior in the spec.

If you want a good example of undefined behavior enabling optimizations, you can eliminate loop bounds checks by assuming that integers will never overflow.
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark.
so then we'll have two options: the Kernel's original recipe and the extra Rust-y flavor
Sega is the one who comes to mind. But there's a reason they got out of hardware and I doubt they'd get back into it.
I agree with you on metal hardware--if it looks and works fine, it probably is.

It's hard to evaluate a climbing rope by visually inspecting it, though. The strength depends primarily on the core strands, which are hidden away behind the sheath. Chemical damage is not as visible as people assume it is.

It's especially hard for lead ropes, because every significant fall takes some the elasticity out of the core. A rope can look perfectly fine even if it is no longer capable of absorbing a lead fall. The danger here isn't so much that the rope will break, but that the lack of stretch will overload your pro, your body, or potentially even the anchor.

So I would be very hesitant to buy a lead rope used, unless you really know and trust the person. Top-roping should be fine because the fall factor is so low. You can top rope with static cord if you're attentive to the belay.
is that because of the psuedo-nobel for economics? i don't think that should count towards the tally, and in any case i would have guessed it was the manhattan project

edit: for those who are downvoting, you might not be aware that the 'nobel' for economics is not issued by the nobel committee but rather the swedish central bank, using the nobel name to appropriate prestige from the better-known prize presented by the norwegian nobel committee. it is not affiliated with the nobel peace prize.
First hard drive I bought was 20 MB. And I thought there was no way I'd ever fill it.
Show HN: Cli movie streaming tool
Why not? Even if the risk of getting caught is small, if the penalties are large, the risk isn't worth it. Feel like risking a trip to jail just to avoid some ads?

Not to mention that it is fairly easy for government to clamp down on distribution of software that allows ad blocking.

As blockers will still exist, but adoption will plummet if the only place to get a ad blocker is torrent sites and such.
Oh man, IRQ and DMA numbers, there's another set of optimizations for your boot disk. Some games would require your sound card to be on a certain IRQ, or only give a limited number of options. Of course, your other devices like your mouse, CD drive, modem or network card need interrupts too, leading to the dreaded IRQ Conflict error message.

DMA channels were even more limited but thankfully fewer devices needed them and programs tended to be less picky about which ones you chose.
This was a neat study, but the authors really do throw around a number of speculative and unsupported claims in the discussion about linguistic relativity/determinism.

> Our findings are also sure to contribute to the debate concerning the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (17), because our work suggests that behavior can be driven by cultural history embedded in a term’s historic use. Such histories can evidently vary between languages.

No, not really. Linguistic relativity makes a claim about the direction of causation--from language to thought. This study does nothing to test the direction of causation, which is usually considered possible only with controlled experiments. This chicken and egg debate has been going on for the better part of the last century--it is not an easy problem.

> Our results also suggest a null hypothesis for explaining origins of prejudicial behavior in humans, namely, the implicit transmission of ingroup/outgroup identity information through language. That is, before providing an explicit or institutional explanation for why individuals make prejudiced decisions, one must show that it was not a simple outcome of unthinking reproduction of statistical regularities absorbed with language.

Once again, this was not an experiment capable of producing causal evidence. The authors have shown that human biases can be replicated by statistical learning of language corpora--admirable work, but nothing new here for Sapir-Whorf.
I'm guessing if and when Apple enters the market, they won't be selling cars. They'll be selling the service of transportation.
Indeed, that Quora post was submitted to HN yesterday - a coincidence of the universe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14108797
That would work for a country that can't defend itself or retaliate. I'm not sure that applies to any of the three mentioned.
The dividend is like a profit-sharing plan.
This. I knew about the Centurion, but I considered their normal cards to be on the same standing as any other. I have their free Everyday card, because they're pretty much the only issues in the UK who still offer cashback.
It was a mix. There were definitely MS/PhD level maths people, but also a lot of people writing more systems oriented code to deal with the metric tones of data that they generate, people writing code to specific APIs for software packages that they use, etc.
People know it's very dry, that's why they like it. You're not giving the viewers enough credit.
I did look on Shodan before I wrote the above, am not seeing "millions" of machines like this hyperbolic article claimed.

But never let fact get in the way of hyperbole and clickbait, it doesn't matter that Windows is secure against this out of the box since XP SP2, it doesn't matter that a simple NAT "firewall" will protect you, all that matters is that some article told you to be afraid and no amount of technical facts is going to get in the way of that.

Too many of these types of articles and threads appearing today completely void of rationality about the scope of this because they don't understand the attack vector and "journalists" like The Intercept are not helping. But naturally outside of a few Netsec discussion boards the fear-party is in full swing, and people will downvote those not fully committed to that narrative.
I agree that it won't be cars. But I wouldn't be surprised if they sold the onboard entertainment and autopilot systems.
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I only use my amex for online purchases, for exactly this reason. Every in-person transaction goes on a visa.
Not really, indexing the top 100 most popular plugins would be enough, and you don't have to ping all files of each one, a single file for each one would be enough (so 100 request).
>If someone stuck an rfid tag in your ear, and tracked where you moved and what you did, I would expect some compensation for that information.

How many centimeters away from your ear is your mobile phone right now?
There are some of us lurkers who agree with you wholeheartedly.

This the general consensus in the academy too.
Your circle of friends are the people American Psycho was about?
This is the Jeff Bezos playbook for preventing Amazon’s demise
Maybe not, but just skimming through the topics looks like there is a lot of overlap between competitive programming and popular job interview questions.
Sounds like things have improved since I last built one. I personally still wouldn't use something with 'works except for...', but I'm glad it's working for you. And I hope the hackintosh community can push Apple to release something more oriented to the tech crowd.
Yet another book showcasing Bob Taylor's impact on personal computing and networking is The Dream Machine https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Co... .

This one tells the story from the precursors to time-sharing to PARC, using the figure of J.C.R. Licklider as a pivot, and was recommended by Alan Kay as better than Dealers of Lightning. I personally enjoyed both.
From memory, Traktion DAW had this sort of routing display as a default when setting up your plugins and tracks ?!
then use referencing!
hope it'll be of help to you
It's usually put up when a notable person to the hn/yc crowd has passed away.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14118290
I don't understand how having an Amex leads to anxiety.

In the maybe 5% of cases where Amex isn't accepted, this is the experience:

Me: hands over Amex
Vendor: Oh sorry, we don't take Amex.
Me: hands over Chase visa
Vendor: Thanks!
I don't think introducing an unbounded liability is the solution to this (or perhaps any) problem. Would this work for 99% of flights? Sure. But it's just asking to be gamed.
Meanwhile, smart employable people earns tens of thousands of dollars at their jobs instead of becoming credit card scholars
Dear HN team, please stop making the black bar. Once was enough, now whenever I hear about someone's death I wonder: "Did the HN guys see fit to give this guy a black bar"? It's on the nose.
I think it's always good to include iTunes Ping in any list of bad apple products.
What about the scummy car rental insurance? Does Amex cover that?
SMB protocol was a well known source of bugs, lots of service packs used to patch this service (funny that it was enabled on network facing machines. I think it was because windows server needed to be ready for every use case. They could have had it easier by having a separate windows product with non essential services disabled by default)
That's likely an exception being paid for out of deep Hollywood pockets
> I am not a lawyer

You might have missed your calling.
This is a great 'advanced' resource! I've been reading the google translate version of the Russian page. Really nice to have a real translation!
I'm just saying its worthless unless you go to airports.
And basically heaven on Earth when you're stuck in Schipol (Amsterdam) over night in a snow storm, all planes are grounded, all the in-airport hotel rooms are booked, the first four hotels you lookup are booked solid, and your only other option is basically to sleep on the floor.
Speaking of innovative interfaces, I love using my iPad as a music production tool... In terms of innovating interfaces, I love Animoog from the point of view that the keyboard is not just a 'press and hold' thing - it reacts to up/down and sideways motion too, once the key is pressed - far better than trying to use a mod wheel or tweak another MIDI parameter at the same time as pressing keys. Bebot is another one with a similarly cool interface, and a lot simpler than Animoog.

Also, I love using NodeBeat HD - That one has a very unique 2D way of representing a beat pattern, but placing nodes and joining them up at different distances etc.
When I was back in elementary school, a friend thought up this brilliant idea that we called "foldermazes", which were basically choose your own adventure games, but the way you chose your adventure was by selecting which folder to go down. I was and still am fascinated by just how brilliant of an idea it was!

Of course there were problems. One that I recall was that I didn't want to have to maintain k^n separate branches of story, so I'd prune off incorrect branches quickly by having your character die or something. :)

We hit the maximum depth for folders very quickly, so I came up with the idea of having a routing table at the base, which was just a single folder with folders labeled 1-10000 inside it. The idea was that you'd get to maximum depth, and then get a number to go into the routing table and continue the adventure. The hope was that there were so many folders within the routing table that it'd be impossible to guess a correct path by chance. (And of course, all the invalid folders had a message like "stop trying to cheat, you cheater! YOUR CHARACTER DIES INSTANTLY!" Remember... 5th grade. :))

I remember working frantically on a "foldermaze" at home for hours, then attempting to put it on a floppy disk. Turns out that is not the sort of operation Windows 95 was optimized for at all - it took hours. (The maze had tens of thousands of folders, most inside the routing table.) Then after a certain point it just failed with "disk full". This really stumped me as a 5th grader. How could the disk be full? Inspecting the properties of my foldermaze showed that it took up 0MB! Far less than the 1.44MB offered by the floppy...

Eventually I pieced together that folders must take up some marginal amount of space more than 0. The property inspector was lying to me! That was very surprising as a kid.

Anyways, this seems like what we did, but way more cool. :)
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iTunes itself is a bad Apple product. Ping was just one bad part.
If by innovative, you mean thieving, sure. He was notorious for passing the ideas of others off as his own, especially after rejecting them.

Make no mistake, he was visionary in prioritizing UX and design thinking within this industry, but he did very little innovating of his own.
Ask HN: Gmail add-on to show emails I've sent where I'm waiting for reply?
Boomerang can do this for new emails, but it can't do it for ones I sent before I installed Boomerang, or where I forgot to tick to resurface if no-reply.

Seems like it might be a useful thing, perhaps a useful tool for salespeople too.

Ideal feature: I load it up on my gmail, and it creates a folder called "waiting for reply" and all the emails I sent with no reply go there.

Does this exist? Would boomerang do it as a feature? Do others think this would be useful?
Start your own site without the black bar (and with hookers and gambling).
Sol LeWitt's iconic letter of advice on overcoming creative block and self-doubt
If a musician clearly puts on the package of a CD that black people cannot listen to it, is that okay?
Unfortunately this seems to be a slightly thorny issue.

I've seen a number of moderately-highly voted "____ has died" posts with no black bar, and wondered a bit.

But having it for everyone would be a maintenance nightmare (timing, latency, etc), raise questions, and probably be more of a distraction than a respectful remembrance (not least because its increased presence would devalue its existence at all).

So some selection needs to be done. I'm guessing one or two people have the call.

The sad thing is that justification - the thing I think everyone might want here (?) - has too high a risk of being fuel for flamewars, bikeshedding and complaints.

Which is inappropriate when you remember the context of what's actually just happened.