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Give me an example of a useful open source networking software package which restricts the user's right to use the software.
Corporate policy for all work laptops...
Then again, if you come up with a little harvester that autonomously harvests 1/4 acre, fits in a suitcase and costs $100, you just might sell millions. People will want better $500k harvesters like they want Zeppelins with more lift or faster steam ships.
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Tesla is not hugely better. If you have an accident, the car's computer shuts down and only an authorised Tesla garage can reactivate it. They have effectively DRMd the entire repair process.
I'd wager that the electricity a normal laptop consumes over its lifetime doesn't even come close to the embodied energy of just its silicon. And that doesn't even account for all the poisonous crap you need to turn dirt into high-tech.
It's been on HN a few years ago[0], just wondering how it's going recently.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087819
But electronics is not just a single material. It consists of independent parts which could work fine as replacements without shredding the entire device.
They are doing something very bad with Win10 - the private data is at risk. I know about their history, and they haven't changed. They still have a monopoly on desktop/notebook. They just lost the mobile sector to Apple and Google - the end consumer decided.
There are other queens than that one.
> A majority of comments here seem to think that literally millions of units of electronics are being shredded wastefully, instead of more meaningfully re-used. Ok, great! This is HN! Where are the calls to start a company to leverage this near-infinite supply of valuable trash through economically productive re-use? Should be very profitable, right?

There are already companies doing it. TFA talks about iThings collected by Apple themselves whose recycling Apple outsourced to others under the condition that everything will be teared down to raw materials.

Have a look here for some real recycling action: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14100989

edit:

Hell, it's right there in TFA:

"Electronics recyclers are filled with heaps of broken iMacs and MacBooks, which due to economics and the requirements of certifications are most often scrapped rather than repaired or sold," John Bumstead, a refurbisher who sells MacBooks that he salvages and frankensteins together from broken ones that he gets from recyclers that don't work with Apple, told me.

In trying to source MacBooks to repair, Bumstead says he's been turned away countless times by recyclers who say they can't sell him Apple products.

So yeah, the question is not whether recycling itself is profitable or not. The problem is that Apple apparently has sufficient profit margins that to them recycling is less profitable than shredding the old iGadgets to raw materials and reforging them into the latest shiny. Especially if it's done in China where the resulting pollution doesn't affect them as much.
I'm not arguing about higher sea level, temperatures, or CO2 levels. I fully believe that all of these are going up.

I think it's unrealistic to believe we can get the whole planet to reduce CO2 emission, so we should stop spending so much effort on it and find other solutions.

I also doubt how much rising sea level will actually hurt humanity. Even in the worst case scenario were talking about an inch or two a year. This is slow enough to easily build a wall, dredge to raise up land, or move buildings away from rising waters. Besides, who puts buildings five feet above the water? The vast majority of buildings would just flood more often. It's not like buildings on the coast don't already get hit by cyclones.
Same issue here, worked months before but last few days really random.
Direct link to EFF report: https://www.eff.org/wp/school-issued-devices-and-student-pri...
Yes, this is a pretty readable code. I don't understand it deeply, but it's clear that it's a definition that defines some filter that I can call by its id.

What seems to be a hierarchy comes from the fact that this is a serialization of the data and the serialization has to be sequential and thus you cannot have a true graph here, only a tree with references. This would be true for any serialization format. Once you deserialize this into your internal format you can have back your graph and it can be as efficient as you'd like.

As a serialization format, however, it's very good, because it's based on a good standard. What's especially good about it is that you can see through its structure and access parts of it using the same generic API as with other XML-based formats. For example, in the browser you can style SVG with the same styling you use for HTML or script it with JavaScript.
I've taken to putting on sunglasses when I drive through that tunnel. Yes, even at 11pm, which is when I usually find myself going through it. I think I might be more sensitive to light color and brightness than most people.
How did you deal with large files, dropped connections, and so on?

I mean, sure, FTP the protocol works fine, and so does virtually all FTP software, but for communication it lacks an important feature: the ability to tell when a file completed uploading.

When we started to upload reasonably large files on reasonably fast file systems this became problem. Our file watcher noticed that a new file arrived, but it's just started uploading. We tried polling the FTP server for connection status, but it turned out that the client supported and did at time use, resumed uploads on connection drops. We ended up having to parse each file just to tell whether it had finished uploading. The file fortunately was an enormous XML dump, so we could check completeness pretty cheaply.

All of this work would've been avoided with a transactional protocol such as HTTP.
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Are you trying to learn pandas just to learn pandas or do you have a motivating example?
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The best thing about your brands is that it is really about what you want to change in the world. What is it that you are trying to make an impact with? You the founders of start-ups are going to be the brand. People will identify the start-up with what you bring in the marketplace. Initially, you do not have the product and all you that you bring in is yourself. At Growth Hackers your brand becomes realistic with the help of right marketing tools to deliver your message. We help you formulate your identity in the market. How you execute your brand is what people measure you on. You can employ all the strategies you want in the world but if you don’t deliver on high-value you will not be consistent. At Growth Hackers our goal is provide start-ups opportunities to compete with other brands on equal footing by calibrating its marketing strategies.

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You seemed to have skipped over the times when consumers were able to repair their products without being ripped off by OEMs.
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Will repair MacBooks for food, but for the love of god don't shred them. Just give them out at high schools or college grads. They can learn a thing or two & save BUX in the process.
Productivity in Indian Startups
India is the third largest startup hub in the world.

A good metric to measure productivity is the size of the team that it takes to build the company around, and the revenue per employee as a metric.

Skype had a team of 27 when they got acquired. Instagram had 13. Whatsapp had 32 Engineers and 55 employees when they were acquired by Facebook and had a whopping 900mn people using the service (and was doing approx $30mn in revenue). Gmail for eg, is still managed by a team of 100 (engineers).

Salesforce a 6.6$bn revenue company has 19,000 people working for it. Zoho has revenues of approx $300mn and Freshdesk has a revenue of about $60mn.

If we do a Revenue per employee extrapolation, Freshdesk would have approx 90,000 people when it does the revenue that SalesForce does. Zoho will have 100,000 people.

On the Pureplay product front, Hike for eg, has 250+ employees (and aims to double it this year), while its counterpart Whatsapp still has the original approximately 55 strong team. Snapchat is however a 1000+ member team and posts 400mn in revenues (and plan to reach 1bn+ this year). Reports suggest that Hike posted a revenue of 100K USD last year.

Most startups have a target of a million dollars of revenue per employee. The same number in India looks abysmally low - even though the salaries are more or less starting to look the same (with adjustments to PPP).

Q: Is there even a difference between Indian Startups and the Outsourced Servicesof the past era?

Cognizant (which does services) has approx 266,000 employees and posts revenues of 13.49billion - approximately double that of salesforce. Our Indian "product" startups would have approximately the same size of workforce of services companies to attain that revenue numbers.

Bottomline : Something has to change.

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If you color ASCII with one color and all the rest of characters with another, there still can be cross-charset spoofing. Just not if ASCII domain is the one being spoofed, but the whole point of IDN was to enable people to create non-ASCII domains, so the "solution" that does not work for all non-ASCII domains is not a solution that is compatible with IDN.
You mean the "This system is mothballed."?

So, one person tried to write a replacement for udev and gave up. What should that tell me?
I repressed dreams of this so many times along the years I'm tearing up a little.
The free market ideal, as I understand it, is something more like physicists saying, "in a perfect vacuum." It is an ideal to be considered, not a destination.
No, that localizes to American, with useless, stupid Fahrenheit and miles.

Another common problem.
According to this study:

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2229029/data-center/comp...

Which states that of all the energy used by a laptop (both during use and manufacture) manufacturing represents 70% of the energy usage.

So it seems to make sense to extend the life of laptops as much as possible.
They may be clever, but they seem... dumb.

Not unlike us. There's a striking resemblence between that video and the many, many 'fail' videos featuring humans.
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I checked, the video[1] does not say that the components are being re-used. It talks about the materials.

At some point there was some articles about how the e-waste ends up in poor countries where human labor is cheap and workers rights non-existent. Manually separating the valuable materials creates then huge health risks for those people. [2]

I don't see the "Liam" as useless PR. I believe it is quite valuable if companies are actually thinking how they can automatically dissemble the devices they have produced.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35VtY-PEPj0
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd_ZttK3PuM
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or operate on document fragments
yt video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0u_nH1MrKQ
LXC, build with ansible or your favorite server config.
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I've almost exclusively seen this handled using an upload with a temporary filename (usually convention based) and then renamed on completion. Watch then for the existence of the renamed files. Clean up temp files after a defined amount to time (30 days for example).
Short answer: because translations used to suck, especially error messages, so if you had a problem you would end up with an error message that was indecipherable and non-googlable
I 'm sorry sheep, you are dumb

I don't own sheep but did spend some time with them and came to the same conclusion. However I also don't think that research is incorrect. As such I am assuming the missing link is the learning part: is it possible they are capable enough but being in a herd suppresses this / has no use for it so it doesn't come out? Due to lack of stimulants, lack of apparent need to learn something?
They can't because by definition, restricting end user usage means the license isn't either Open Source or Free Software.
And hope you don't "infringe" on any patents in the process... Easier said than done but it's definitely the long-term solution.
Sorry if this gets too nitpicky according to Google you officially have 4 :)
Foxit sometimes does it. Sometimes it even remembers multiple tabs. I don't understand why it doesn't always remember, though.
its a visual representation of a language that often conveys information to people whom speak an unknown tongue. Given an array of choices people may be able to pick out the graphic quicker.
And after moving to linux start an "Ask HN" topic "what tools can replace macos tools on linux".

Your comment would be: "not having all the tools available is a symptom of using linux as a desktop os".
John Deere is a brand name in the US. There are several Asian companies that compete with them. When was the last time you bought a tractor? Mahindra, Kubota, New Holland Ag, Case-Farmall and Massey-Ferguson. Have you looked at the competitive landscape?
Gradual Typing is a specific term, what you are looking for is optional typing.
>> The title is misleading as it refers to intellectual property.

Technically, you are right, but its not about the right to disassemble the drivers for your JD tractor, its really about the right to effectiveley own that machine. If you are not allowed to repair your own machine, you don't have ownership on it.
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Just to be clear, I haven't really disclosed anything publicly, not regarding the e-payment API issue or any other issues for that matter. The SlideShare from my comment references the e-payment API vulnerability but doesn't disclose any technical details. It's not possible to reproduce the attack based on the slides alone.
It baffles me why the newer Kindle models have regressed on this.
The problem with "you void the warranty" is that one person voids the warranty, then sells the equipment to someone else, and that second person gets upset with John Deere when it doesn't work. On the hardware side, we have "warranty void if seal broken"; but there's no easy way for someone buying used farm equipment to know if someone messed with the software.
I always wonder how things would be if even half of the time invested in closed source had instead gone toward open source software. The open source ecosystem is already incredible, and IMO more capable in most cases than the closed source alternatives.
I lived in Boston doing part-time IT help for what is $14.38/hour in 2017 dollars. You can make rent, just not in completely over-the-top fancy digs. I lived at 525 Newbury Street, in a basement apartment facing the alley. That isn't even a bad location; it is a very short walk away from the Kenmore Square station on the Green Line.

I had time for fun. I'm sure you can buy better toys than I could, but you mostly can't buy time.

Anyway, it is 100% false that you need two professionals to make rent. You could do it with a full-time minimum-wage job. Anything above that is luxury.
Why would it be a terrible option for those cases?
"Wikipedia gives you the consensus view on pretty much every area of human knowledge."

Doesn't Wikipedia say that climate change is a thing? I bring that up, because it contradicts much consensus.
> Because if that were true you would just open up old books and sniff them and rub them in your hands from time to time.

Slow down, mister. That is EXACTLY what I do. And it's why I love visiting libraries. Maybe you need to get out more, or at least stop assuming the world operates the same way as the extremely limited sample of people you have encountered.

It's like you think I'm making this shit up just to argue with you or something. "If that were true"... really?

I'm not trying to convince you to have the same preferences as me. Nor am I condemning your preference of digital media. But again, why are you condemning my own preferences, and why are you trying to convince me to have yours? I love digital media as much as the next guy and I've got lots of ebooks so I clearly understand the value in them.

But there's no "justification" as to why I also like owning physical books. Who do I need to justify myself to? No one. In fact apparently I have to defend myself, if anything.

> Lets face it, we read books for the words not for the feel for the books.

Let's face it, you are attempting to speak for the motivations of everyone on planet Earth, when you have no right or authority to do so. That is a downright ignorant thing to say.

You should try going to an old book sale, the kind with tons of 50 cent bins. I could spend hours in places like that. It really might change your perspective on the legitimacy of the preference for physical media.

What, should I stop buying vinyls, too? Just like books, their physical manifestation are symbolic of the material within, and best of all, absolutely no DRM.
The lack of updates may have coincided with lack of updates to Java.
I would say just check out the threads for the sort of experiences people are reporting across pretty much every stack from rails to symphony. In my case above it was actually jvm clojure building an uberjar, probably worst case scenario. REPL was usable because it didn't do a any mounted volume access, just network access.
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Regardless of all this, it's pretty clear what's causing this currently buildup of CO2. So why deny that man's activity is a major factor?

As for "the earth will be fine": yes the planet will still be here, but will humans survive this? In the past, these changes were far more gradual, letting life adapt.

As for "not even close", please show me a period when the rate of extinction was higher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
> Gee, no rose-colored glasses there!

Simple fact actually. https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

As for the rest of your wild claims - if you had any evidence at all for any of it, your sensational exposé would probably topple the singapore government. Please, let me know before your book comes out so I can short some stocks!
There are also a number of charitable organizations trying to bring computation into underserved international communities (eg. http://www.reneal.org/). Please consider donating used hardware; it can have a tremendous impact on communities whose schools have (at best!) a single computer for hundreds of students.
I wonder if that is more to keep a handle on the process though than anything sinister (in the early stages I would do that).

Still quietly optimistic about Tesla's effect, so I hope they don't turn out as self-serving as the rest.
There are thousands of languages the choice of languages to support logically ought to come from a cost benefit analysis of supporting a given tongue. European institutions are pretty much always going to be dealing with people that speak a wide variety of languages. Within the US we are talking about a market of 300 million wherein most individuals speak English as a first language or in addition to their primary language.

Doing business outside the US would almost certainly involve a lot more work than translating the website. This doesn't mean its a bad idea but its certainly a complicated decision.
As an actual Australian I'm really happy that we don't build 'nuke plants' here. (I am assuming you mean nuclear fission power plants.)

We have uranium, yes, but if happenstance is our only criteria we should also be building nuclear weapons and burning lots of coal. Sadly we're doing the latter with great alacrity.

We also don't have a good place to store the waste. I don't think there's (m)any places on the planet that could be good places to store waste of this nature. It's probably telling that people often refer to nuclear waste needing to be stored or managed, rather than recycled, rendered safe, disposed of, etc.
> So what do you display? The Catalan version? Spanish? English?

You let the user choose. A big missing component of international websites is the UI to let people choose the language they want instead of guessing for them.
You have a good point with the bad blocks. But just writing to all the free space on the disk should cover the wear leveling issue.

I was mainly referring to the old wives' tale that data could be recovered unless it was overwritten 7 times. I've never heard of anyone recovering data that had been overwritten just once.

I do understand, however, that there is no visual indication that the data has been erased, and that can be disconcerting. In that case, a ball peen hammer liberally applied should satisfy anyone.
Could an admin add '2007' to the title and fix Linus name?
I do actually want a Zeppelin.
Having a residence floating in the air is kinda cool I think.
Do you think it was just a massive oversight or do you think they somehow, some way, stand to make money from removing the feature?
> But not consuming is bad for the economy, so the invisible hand does its best to prevent reduction and reuse.

That 'the invisible hand' (by which I assume you mean the free market) prevents reuse is simply not true. In a competitive free market you would have companies that would specialise in reuse.
For Apple's products that is exactly what happens: there are actually quite a few companies selling refurbished second hand Apple products (e.g. [1] and [2]), including Apple itself [3]. Of course, regulation sometimes gets in the way: India's prime minister Modi is preventing Apple from selling second hand iPhones in India in an attempt to get them to start producing products in India.

The free market has many short-comings. Preventing reuse is not one of them.

[1] https://leapp.be/nl

[2] https://www.forza-refurbished.be/?gclid=CNb63IaEutMCFSEG0wod...

[3] https://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac

[4] http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/tim-cook-k...
IP based detection doesn't work in practice for many users, from vpn to traveling abroad including outdated IP geolocation so this is not a practical solution either.
Yes; I think his statement is more trying to describe his own inability to separate the wheat from the chaff; Most startups do fail and he can't differentiate between the good ones and bad ones; And after all, whatsapp was once a startup was it not? I don't believe he is putting down startup founders by his comment.
I'd always assumed that iPhones would have a high resale value too, but I find that they are surprisingly cheap. You can pick up iPhone 4S phones for £50 [0].

Then compare iPhone 5S (£120) [1] vs Samsung Galaxy S5 (£130 - 140) [2].

I really don't understand why. Perhaps there's just more people that want to buy second hand android phones.

[0]: http://second-handphones.com/all-handsets.html?manufacturer=...

[1]: http://second-handphones.com/all-handsets.html?manufacturer=...

[2]: http://second-handphones.com/all-handsets.html?manufacturer=...
Most annoying to me is Wikipedia. It is almost never the case that I would prefer the Danish article over the English. Yes, Danish is my native language, but why would I want a 10 line article in Danish, when there's a 5 page article available in English.

It's not that I don't appreciate all the hard work the Danish authors put into the articles/translations, but I'm still left with an lower quality because of an assumption made by the Wikipedia site.

Of cause the problem is that even being able to weighting my preferred language won't help, because some sites I want in Danish, and some I would prefer to have in English, even if a Danish translation is available.