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> But Jolla has shipped. Jolla 1, Intex Aquafish, Turing Phone, Inoi R7[1]. Limited runs of Jolla C, Tablet. Sony Xperia X should be coming soon

Proving my point - all of these devices (except for Experia, and possibly the Tablet) ran on hardware outdated at release time. Ubuntu Phones ran on reasonably performant hardware (Edge, Meizu MX5 and Google Nexus 5) at release time.

Your personal preference for VirtualBox, or VirtualBox being "well known", is irrelevant. Virtualization is unnecessary and a waste of resources compared to cross compilation and emulation via QEMU.

> At the same time, that's the risk you take with Kickstarter/IndieGoGo. It's a startup.

The tablet problem was more than a matter of communication. It demonstrated that Jolla wasn't ready for prime-time the way they advertised. Backers will empathize with a product not ready for prime-time if the people involved are transparent. Whether you like it or not, unaccounted product delays, CEO's quitting without explanation, staff being laid off, and other internal matters do erode consumer confidence and burns bridges.

> VPN support was added in the last release. The public git repos show ongoing work to filesystem encryption.

Perhaps Russian government involvement is finally starting to pay off? They certainly couldn't have been bothered to add these things towards the beginning.

> I'm hopeful that one day SailfishOS will be fully open source.

Sure, with less than 0.1% of the market space, what do they have to lose. They've certainly lost a lot of other things though.

> Disagree. They hold fortnightly meetings

That wasn't always the case, certainly not the case in 2014/2015. Sailfish's lead SDK developer actually spent more time promoting his personal CMake alternative than his work on the Sailfish SDK.

Ubuntu Phone OS developers were always responsive to SDK issues, even when they didn't have the answer.
Inside Microsoft's AI Comeback
A recent EconTalk episode covers the history of this type of system in depth: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/06/christy_ford_ch.htm...

It was widespread until insurance companies forced them out of the industry.
As speakers of English, we ARE the experts in the field, and the vast majority of us don't agree with you.
Ask HN: Assistive Devices for recently quadriplegic dad
In a most unfortunate incident, my dad slipped in our house and received a severe spinal cord injury (c5 to c7). This has rendered him quadriplegic. He is currently stable and is in in-house rehab. He was very active and was a part time professor. He also had a one or two consulting assignments.

He would like to use his laptop/ipad/phone. After some research I found some companies like TeclaShield that sell switches/ bluetooth interfaces and such.

Does anyone have any experience in this area? Your help or advice will be really appreciated.
Your (and other) replies seem to assume that the startup is something you're already doing on the side, while employed full time doing something else. Is this really that common?? Most, if not all places I've worked assert IP ownership over anything you do while employed, even on your own time. That's 100% what keeps me from moonlighting and/or starting my own thing on nights and weekends, and keeps me from contributing/consulting for friends who want help with their idea. How do you have any confidence that your startup is really yours when you could get sued by a former employer the day you quit to grow it full-time?
I have read many posts saying D was better than C++ as a language but there were no libraries for use case X. Now this may help popularise the language.
See what this says: http://webglreport.com/?v=2
For me it's a "hello world" for experimenting with building VHF antennas. It's nice, because they are on a schedule that you can plan around and more interesting than listening to the local dispatch systems.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules police dash cam videos are public
I dont think it even needs to be reverse a string or fizzbuzz or crossword solver to filter people out - personally I think that some of these "easy" questions often have too much of a riddle about them, especially if you are just hiring bums-on-seats to crank out CRUD or MVC code to meet a looming deadline.

I dont want to try and trick them or see if they grok my contrived question - I want to know if they are self-sufficient and get stuff done (sure if you are trying to hire a contractor to do significant design & architecting, then sure use the riddles)

Next time I am recruiting contractors I think I'd probably just hand them a clean-install laptop with just notepad + compiler (or browser, if they are a frontend dev) with no internet connection or fancy libraries, then ask them to write something super basic, like print out the 10 green bottles song on screen, then sit back and watch over their shoulder.

If they cant do that in 5 minutes, then "Thanks for coming, we'll be in touch!", if they can then the real interview starts.
also (non-webgl) http://subprotocol.com/system/cloth.html

lib: https://github.com/subprotocol/verlet-js
It may be millions of units by now- it was 1M about 2 years ago (https://www.genomeweb.com/microarrays-multiplexing/1m-custom...).

Minor nitpicking: the 23andMe kits use microarrays for genotyping, not DNA sequencing. It's an older and more limited technology but it is much cheaper than sequencing.
That would be covered by policy controls, not technical ones—it's the same issue as someone taking pictures of the screen with their personal phone. You'd need to address the actual issue that's causing people to do that (ill-thought-out policies, employee actually working for $INTELLIGENCE_AGENCY, employee enjoys espionage,…).
I recall a story about one vendor deciding it would be more profitable to separate from Wal-Mart and take the declining sales hit versus the dictated profit margin. I believe it was a lawn mower company?
Deploying your HTML / CSS / JavaScript webapp in under a minute with Hasura
If a straight fixed fee was encouraging people to overuse the service, why not tweak it and try a fixed base fee plus a modest per-visit fee?
Ask HN: Teaching Code to Someone That Asked Me for a Job
Yesterday I made a deal with an old high school friend that reached out to me about a job as well as a loan. In general, I don't loan money to friends. It gets complicated quickly and risks the actual relationship. However, I made a deal with him where I would give him a little more money that what he asked for and he wouldn't need to pay me if he committed to learning how to code (with my assistance).
I hypothesize that the growth that I will receive by teaching code and the potential positive impact that can result in his life will be worth the experience. Have any of you done something like this? I would love some pointers or thoughts :)
Note: downvotes are not a rebuttal. Not that I think that it's possible to dispute that statement by means other than "I'd like the world to work differently", but if someone were prepared to offer an argument, that would redound far more to their credit. And if you think I'm wrong, don't let me dangle in ignorance, otherwise I'm liable to keep saying such things.
Where do the presidential elections and stuff come in here again?
Your definition of "familiarity" is what Americans would call racism. Obviously people are more familiar/prefer to work with other people like themselves. In America, you don't get to act on those preferences to the extent those preferences fall along race/gender/national origin lines. Socially, it's merely discouraged, but in the workplace it's illegal.
They could hire organically for much less.

Uber only works if there are enough drivers so that I can always get a ride. If I get told that I have to wait 30 minutes for a ride more than a tiny handful of times I'm uninstalling the app. Growing organically in region would be very tough since it would take too long to get enough drivers in place that users could rely on the service and conversely drivers would be unwilling to sign up because not enough users where bothering to use the service.
Hmm, it depends on your threat model. If you're being targeted by a three-letter agency, then no (of course, you need something more secure than a VPN at that point, anyway). But if you're not singled out, your own VPS is much less likely to be passively surveilled than if it's part of a known VPN IP block.
Mobile gaming sessions down 10 percent year-over-year, but revenue climbs
What Are the Best Boston Coding Bootcamps?
In Germany everybody over 35 is advised to do such a check-up every two years, plus a bunch of different cancer screenings and twice-yearly dental examinations. I would say about a third of the people actually use those offerings.
Plus external CD+DVD burners from major brand names are now dirt cheap and run entirely off the USB port with no extra power adapter needed (!!!) so they're convenient and inexpensive to add if you really need one, with the bonus that you can move them between machines as desired.
Split buffers: a variation on the gap buffer data structure for text editors
You can get them on Amazon.co.uk. Different regs I guess. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carejoy-Quality-Screen-Portable-Mac...
Mine: to motivate people to choose to lower their pollution and greenhouse gas emissions (significantly, not just raising awareness or things like using electric cars instead of driving significantly less).

People can do it but they prefer living the way they do, which is what is causing the problems, knowing in principle that they should change their behavior but not actually doing so.

Miami flooding more and more is not enough of a burning platform yet. Nature will provide it if we don't choose to change ourselves.
Turning off the shower while I am soaping is now second-nature to me, like turning off the water while brushing teeth. I highly recommend it.
Amazon is a collection of individuals. It only takes a
small number of employees to circumvent the best protocols.
If you have a patent then sue Disney for Rogue One.
The fact that Uber brought in tipping the day it got rid of Kalanick makes me believe it is a money issue. Basically Uber raised prices by 10-20% to match Lyft.
Over the past years Apache httpd has had 187 vulnerabilities, 24 of which had potential remote code execution consequences.

I'm not saying anyone is ever going to find another RCE in Apache. I'll even go as far as to say it's not very likely.

But I don't think develop a server and then put it in the world's most hostile environments for 20 years until we're certain it's safe is a particularily efficient development strategy.

People should stop building stuff in C, it's that simple.
You can only concentrate sunlight for a fraction of the time. The good news is water is easy to store for long periods, the bad news is utilization is very low. Sierra Suntower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_SunTower is kind of a worst case senario but they got about 100 hours per year of operation.
Lilium test flight: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/20/15369850/lilium-jet-flyin...
PayPal == PainPal...
This one is a big deal in states like Montana, where you can no longer hunt for food as a felon. And Archery is now in a gray area too, where they aren't letting felons hunt with bows either.
How an Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab for Cyberwar
A Critical Problem: Safety at Los Alamos
a = f(b) is fine - it's clear to the reader that a might or might not end up having anything to do with b. @f a = b is not at all clear as a syntax for the same thing - a reader would very much expect a to = b after execution of a line like that.
Netscape Enterprise Server and Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18350910/netscape-enterp...
Sucking investor money.
Many of the web startups in the late 1990s had good ideas but were about 20 years too early.

A lot of things that have succeeded today were tried then and failed either because the technology couldn't scale, or the bandwidth wasn't there, or because people just weren't ready for it.
The two concerns are intertwined, as reduced risk from human error means fewer malpractice claims, and slower premium increase (assuming a well functioning malpractice insurance market).

Also, improved outcomes (due to fewer errors) also improve costs, as patients won't have to come back due to complications as often.
You really think they'd fire a showy public hire this fast? Unless he was committing felonies it's almost impossible. They'd be working with him to try to salvage the situation.

Impetuous quitting over some specific issue he holds dear is only a thousand times more likely.
Let's continue this until everybody is in jail.

That's for the best. Reform and all that.
When the Internet (Officially) Became the Public Square
Being able to send any amount money anywhere all over the world with no fees or restrictions and with great privacy isn't interesting?
>Amazon is a massive immoral monster devouring the US economy and replacing it with something vaguely worse, year by year

Hasn't the same thing been said about Walmart?
This reminds me of when pepsi bought (Pizza hut, taco bell, KFC). Still hard to find pepsi at pizza places and they spun it off in 97'.
At least its not as intrusive ass the add infested refeer sleep caskets onboard of the M.S. Generationship.
Serverless Showdown
China plays long game on cobalt and electric batteries
AWS is definitely a worry, as increasingly it's the fabric american business is woven from. Shutting that down or raising its prices suddenly would severely disrupt US business.

But secondary effects of lost sales from vendors would almost certainly upend the vendor table and make goods very difficult to get ahold of. Amazon as a delivery service (and its smile boxes, ads for its own products on said boxes, and specialized delivery frameworks) is as much of an American institution as the post office now, and growing as it takes over its own delivery and logistics.
Maybe a wrapper API for OpenVPN/SSL that attempts to Do It Rightunder the hood would be worthwhile?
I'd say IE5.5.

All those dHTML shit, like DirectX, MIDI, .htc (Javascript Components), <img dynsrc> for videos, a sane CSS box model, css and inter-page transformations, VML for vector graphics, VRML for VR (buzzword), XML islands (influenced e4x and later JSX), the original xhr object, native cryto APIs, etc.

You can even program jscript on server side with asp, or execute standalone with ActiveScript, even control native GUI like customizing your folder, the browser can be morphed to the file explorer. You can make apps with few kb of jscript unlike 55MB electron install bundle.

The Windows help files (CHM) are like thousand years better than macOS counterparts and linux man files. CHM was the de facto ebook format back then and it works really well with features like indexable topics and full text search. We now have to use devdocs.io or dash.

yes it has its quirks and worms, but it was way ahead of its time.
This implies he must have had backing from other sources. Not encouraging for people who don't have that.
What I don't get about eBay is they found initial success in being an auction site then they almost immediately decided they wanted to be an online retailer instead. Why not just be the best auction site you can be rather than be yet another Amazon wannabe?

Interestingly Amazon has done the same thing except they want to be Google (Android) and Netflix (content bundling with Prime).

I get the desire to grow but honestly more often than not trying to do too much just makes you mediocre at everything.
Echo the same thoughts myself.

Like they say, the best time to start a startup was in 2014. The second best time is now.

For me, there was also some fear as the revenue was quite new. Although it was significant, the thought has never and still hasn't left my mind that one day it could be gone.

It's also made me quite conservative in how I use the cash flow to grow the company. I'm not of the camp where I pour every dollar back into the company but rather I should take it out and invest in other things.
> Travis is not without his flaws but he created an awful lot of value for them.

Valuation != value
Prototyping a Recommender in R, Java, Scala, and SQL
I've had two very different experiences starting a company.

The first time I was two years out of school with $12k in the bank, had a partner with a ton of experience, and a decent idea. We crunched for six months, launched, failed, and then tried to pivot. I ran out of cash a few months before the iPhone launched and had I had a longer runway we could have ported our app to the iPhone and potentially seen success.

A year ago and nine years later than that attempt, I've started a small video game company with another friend (justintimegame.com). Despite my life situation being more complicated and expensive to maintain, the prior nine years success combined with my wife's income basically lets me try and fail until I get sick of it instead of when the money would run out. Obviously I'm aiming for success, but the massively reduced stress from barely worrying about money let's me be much more open to experimentation while also being resilient to failure.

I don't regret starting and failing my first company however. It set me up for having a higher risk threshold and an interest in startups that ended up working out quite well for me.
I've been at my job for about a year post university. Semi-actively applying and not a single reply back. I don't know if its my resume, me only having a single year of experience, or something else.
eBay?
They most certainly DO have access to that data, its naivety to the point of farce to suggest they don't.

The real question is do they access it in compromising ways?
Interesting point. If you were using Clojure I'd suggest checking out Schema and spec. They allow you to define the expected fields of a map/dictionary, without requiring a full type, which is handy for well-defined data objects without attached behavior.
No, the artist is supposed to experiment. Someone on the business side is supposed to rein it in when the experiment turns to rubbish. Sometimes this quashes something great, but mostly it ensures that artistic professionals can be supported by their own work.

But it is particularly unfortunate when such an experiment escapes into the wild, and a clique seizes upon it as a test for tribal identification.

It's okay to dislike "great literature" and enjoy "pablum for the lowest common denominator" or "escapism for immature minds". I don't really find a whole lot of value in critiquing other people's preferences. If you don't like a specific artwork, you should just keep sampling until you find something you do enjoy, no matter who else likes it. You're not going to make yourself happy by forcing yourself to like something just to fit in to a social group; you're far better off being honest with yourself. After all, you never really know if it's an Emperor's New Clothes situation until someone speaks up and says "I hated every word of this book, and I have no idea why anyone would think it's a masterpiece."

It may well be that will be followed up by "I only said I liked it so that you guys would think I was intelligent and cultured", "I read it in bed because it was such a reliable way to make me fall asleep", "I only read like a third of Gravity's Rainbow, and faked the rest of the way through for book club".
Like I said, so long Travis.
I'm not after recognition or household name recognition--quite the opposite. I'm just a normal, unremarkable technologist who's getting old and wondering whether I should have spend the last 20 years blogging and self-promoting rather than quietly polishing my skills. It feels very uncomfortable that "Becoming a tech celebrity" has emerged as a legitimate path to advancing in one's career.

EDIT: Not saying these celebrities don't also earn their keep through their skills. It's just disappointing how much of a factor self-promotion is.
A Microsoft device that captures mosquitoes based on each mosquito’s wing beats
People keep saying Uber is burning cash, but their core business model is sound:

$5 per hour per driver goes to Uber

Assume 80,000 drivers (half of # U.S. Uber drivers) drive 8 hours a day, 7 days a week

52 weeks in a year

5x8x80000x7x52=$1,164,800,000

So about $1.1 billion just in the US. The only expenses are at headquarters (engineering, operations, design, legal, marketing, support) and the tiny field support offices they have in each city (local, entry-level employees).
Wow I literally just installed GDC today (as opposed to DMD which I've tried in the past) in order to support ARM as well as x86. Congrats on the inclusion!
Snapper mowers.

https://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart
Internal culture or external? The vast majority of people have little idea of Uber's issues and if they do have some idea, they don't care. I'm not saying that's how everyone is. Just most people. Especially outside of circles like HN.

If internal, I gusss that's true. But we don't hear much about Lyft's internal workings. We don't know the morale of workers or how productive the company is.

About controlling costs - that's why I mentioned losses. Lyft is only in the US yet its losses are worse than Uber. It makes Lyft looks worse to me. Has Lyft said it is profitable anywhere or even break even?

But then Uber's insane valuation is not helping itself. I guess both companies are in bad positions, hard to say which is worse. And I agree it will be interesting to see how Uber does over the next year with new top executives.
VR is not exactly massive now.
Not quite 20 years too soon, but Six Degrees pioneered social networking in 1997: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com
Nuclear fusion is mostly some amount of investment away. It's never been funded at the levels that predict "30 years away". In fact, funding has been continuously reduced: http://imgur.com/sjH5r
Share with care: Exploiting a Firefox UAF with shared array buffers
I saw Ed Catmull (Pixar) give a post-Jobs death talk on youtube about how Jobs had completely changed during his 10 year hiatus and was far more empathic.
Datomic when it first came out probably. Meaning still over 10 years ahead of its time.
Making significant impact on psychiatry via brain simulations.
https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/medicine/

I could see this happening within 20 years, but not in the confines of the current project.
ActiveState Launches a Commercial Go Distribution, ActiveGo
Walmart has been stopping price matching (except their own.com) this and last year across the country in its stores