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The ideals behind your post are great, but can we not pretend that Kim Dotcom is Rosa Parks? There is a difference between civil disobedience in which your comment advocates and profiteering from breaking those unjust laws.

Airbnb and Uber certainly broke some laws that were only put in place to protect monopolies. I think that is good for society. But they also broke plenty of laws that were legitimately for public health and safety. I don't think the former absolve the later and I don't think it is up to you, me, Airbnb, or Uber to decide which laws fall into which buckets. That is the job of our judicial system.
TWo points. One, the campaign to raise awareness did very poorly. I had heard of Bassel's arrest around the time it first occurred; I had no idea there was a campaign to learn of his whereabouts or that he had disappeared. I would have been happy to support this campaign if I had been aware of its existence.

Two, moral appeals generally don't work. The western style of protest has become mere gesture: 'I would like for this to change, but will not interfere with the outcome in any way.'
We are bombarded with moral appeals on a daily basis, and while signaling our agreement or support online can sometimes yield enough traffic for a commercial or voluntary activity, it has a pretty dismal record in bringing about political change.
> It wasn't until I fell off my bike and broke it did I realize how much more exercise I was getting with it.

How does that relate?
Yes, this guy doesn't seem to care at all about it, beyond writing a blog post. If he did, he would remove those huge apps and find alternatives.
I would have said exactly the opposite: blurred strokes belong to bitmaps, you are still thinking that pixels are square over a regular area that can opnly be rotated by multiples of 90 degrees.

SVG graphics are clean, result in NO blur at all. They don't even need any Truetype-style hinting. You've probably looked only at early non-conforming implementations using bad approximations. But precise rendering algorithms for SVG are specified and fully tested (this is not the case for bitmaps whose support is much more problementic: see what happens to photos and videos when editing them! Never twice the same result, and lot of losses and artefacts everywhere, including bad undesired effects, and notably the moiré effects which are much worse and do not reproduce what natural scaling would do in your eyes, that are not fitted to a perfect rectangular grid).

So no, it's perfectly possible to create a vector image that results in unblurred strokes at arbitrary pixel sizes. What you want is a geometric transform to exhibit more some details: it is in fact impossible to do that with bitmaps except by sending variants tuned for multiple resolutions: you do that for a limited number of resolution and assume it is enough, but this is not the case, so you add more, and finally you have enormous images that are widely redundant with each other, and better represented by converting their 2D model to 3D and an adaptive 3D-to2D projection. you'll do that easily with vector graphics, not with bitmaps (or their extensions called "mipmaps" which are only approximations not really scalable because they're still all based on discretely sampled planes).
International or some other payment type Amazon doesn't support well or at all in their own payment system seems like the lowest hanging fruit.

Amazon payments seemed like a huge opportunity to me at one point but I think they're sort of moving away from it. This could be a test that could trigger moving all payments to Stripe and eliminating the overhead of their own payments team. Wouldn't shock me.
Apple may not care too much about that. As long as they get sold.
That's not how the 51% attack works.

If you have >51% of the mining power, you can overpower the rest of the network. Simply pick a block in the past and start mining from there, ignoring everyone else. With >51% of the hashrate you _will_ overcome the rest of the network and enforce your new chain.

They can do it in secret. Build a secret parallel chain while they transact, then release the chain after they've got their BTC.

And 51% is not "insane". It's absolutely tiny. As I said, _any_ of the large pools could do it, right now.
It's still worth a lot to be good at systems programming. Outside of the HN bubble there are plenty of companies willing to pay extremely well for people who can do systems programming, particularly under high performance constraints.
In a certain sense, a mall is a public space, though. Meaning, you can't exclude people simply because they belong to a protected class. A privately-owned mall is very different from a privately-owned home or club in that regard.
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SC wasn't the first audio sharing website and certainly won't be the last.

IMO it has become the IMGUR for audio, and users won't pay for uploading images to IMGUR or videos to Youtube.

Maybe SC pretends to be a storage/bandwidth reseller, but in that case it's outrageous that it is charging $7 / month for 6 hours of audio which (at the most) are 3.6 GB in uncompressed CD quality audio (44.1Khz/16bit). You could argue about bandwidth costs, infrastructure, etc, but Vimeo is doing great and its smallest plan (cheaper than SC) allows you to upload 5GB per WEEK.
Apple Watch, or accessories in general, are something you can buy at any time that increases the utility of your device. Compare this to something like an OS update that gets released annually for free, but you can’t really control when you get it.
Them being dumb watches is the appeal though. A good "dumb" watch will last decades. An Apple Watch is obsolete after, what, two years?

I wear a battery-powered analog quartz dumb watch on my wrist and I love it. I change the battery every couple years and that's it. It tells perfectly accurate time (way more accurate than a mechanical watch costing orders of magnitude more) and will never be obsolete.
Has any thought been given to the long-term economic consequences of something like this replacing animal products in the market? The price of commodity corn shot up when production of corn-based ethanol became popular as well as other uses of corn.

I'm not sure if the agricultural industry would be ready to support a large shift towards this very easily.
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Appreciate the contribution.
True. But watches had started to become an unnecessary accessory. For many, the phone had become a suitable replacement for the watch if style wasn't a factor in wearing one.
Without voting rights, there is no financial anchor for the price since you cannot liquidate the company either, so yeah, it's not really a stock. It is a scrip backed by the faith in the existing majority voting bloc.
Paypal's white label product was unusable (literally for some companies). Their banking relationships did not need to be better than Paypal's to have a better white labeled, developer centric payments gateway than Paypal.
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> seriously doubt the NSA was tasked with working a non-terrorism related piracy case

They go after literally everything. Do people not remember the snowden leaks?
I live literally a block away from Ssam bar--I'll be going in tomorrow for lunch to try this out. Thanks for the tip!
I have a GPS running watch that's significantly cheaper than the latest version of the Apple Watch that has GPS built in, and it's definitely useful for tracking my speed on runs and rides.
Opinions of this differ, see C++ templates etc: Simplistically, this now makes it easier for code to get very complex (a la C++ templates). The question is, should this be in the hands of the language designers or the users of said language?
If you already know a dynamic language like ruby or python, or a high level static language like c# or java, then use the language you know.
RAID 5 and 6 were found to be losing data without a drive going bad. I pulled all my data off to backup and restored it on a freshly built array under XFS. That's not something I enjoy doing too often.
Good news! The `reqwest`[0] library already exists and serves exactly that purpose.

[0]: https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest
I'm not sure if "the Bitcoins are still mine" is an appropriate interpretation - (just as with banks) you don't own those particular BTC that you deposited, these now belong to Coinbase, what you have is a claim, a debt, an IOU, a statement from Coinbase that they'll give you a particular amount BTC on demand. If the standard banking regulations apply (and why wouldn't they? Coinbase is licenced as a money transmitter) there are no any particular "named" BTC held in escrow particularly for you, there's an "account" that tallies how much BTC you "have", i.e., how much BTC Coinbase owes you - as their user agreement states, "you are the owner of the balance of each of your Currency Wallets".

In the absence of any specific agreements with Coinbase regarding usufruct rights, you wouldn't have them (just as you don't have usufruct rights when depositing currency in a bank account) - you don't own that BTC, Coinbase owes you some fixed amount of BTC, and that's that.

Of course, that would be a nice thing to test in courts - after all they decide who owes what to whom, not the algorithms of BTC/BCC.
Similarly, I realized that my Pebble Time was both my alarm clock and helping me aim to go to bed earlier.

Sadly, my Fitbit hasn't been quite a drop-in replacement (alarm is quieter; and I have to remember to open the app to sync sleep tracking).
> Extremists and terrorists seek to attack and erode not just our security, but also our values; the very things that make our societies open and free

I wish they'd articulate what values those are.

When a company the size of Google embarks on "preventing and stopping" extremists I am a little leery. Terrorism and extremism have often become synonyms with "speech I don't agree with". I have seen people called "nazis" all too easily on popular political forums like Reddit's /r/politics for daring to criticize the popular opinions. So maybe I am too paranoid here but I'd take what Google does with a grain of salt.

You say something they disagree with and you might just find your email, youtube, drive, google docs, and other accounts removed...
yes! Do you remember where you learned of it by name?

(It came up for me in Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society :)
I have the Series 2 and it's been great for me.

1) Vibrating alarm. Perfect as I hate these big vibrating discs for the deaf. They break frequently.

2) Message/Email notification. It vibrates when I get a text message so I can look and see if it's worth my time to reply or wait till later. Same with email.

3) Fitness - great for running and can even leave the phone at home (Strava especially).
> "In Germany, when intelligence agencies merge with ordinary law enforcement, we call it Gestapo."

Who is "we" in this context? At least in the Germany I know most people actually call this "Gefahrenabwehr" (literally: danger prevention) or "Staatsschutz" and can't remember any historic event which has shown that this is a bad idea.

If right-wing terrorist join the party people call it "Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund" (National Socialist Underground) [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Undergrou...
I really wish android came with better tools to let you know what is bogging down the machine. If only they hadn't gutted the linux part of it, we could have much better tools at our fingertips....

Does anyone know of a good process-viewer/resource watcher for android?
I think an obsolete apple watch will still be able to at least mirror the functionality of any 'dumb' watch.
Python 2 was bigint by default. Not even going to deconstruct your argument past that
Citation needed. I find mine useful enough I would never let it just collect dust. Just the ability to have all sounds and vibrations on my phone turned off at all times, yet still know instantly when I'm getting an incoming phone call or FaceTime call, is worth the price of the device.
I would apply some scepticism of some of those numbers until the plant gets seriously into the end-of-lifecycle decommissioning. Particularly when one looks at how the San Onofre cleanup cost is being estimated and who is paying. (4.4B.. which doesn't seem like it was set aside from the rates being paid during the lifetime of the plant...)
SoundCloud only takes card directly, not through PayPal/similar, which is good for them, but makes the decision harder for me since cancelling would be harder.
"Does that mean I got free money? Is it a paper version of Bitcoin? Why can't they create it from scratch? Are they affiliated? Why is it called a fork? Should I buy Bitcoin before a fork? What's the point? Why 1 BTC = 1 BCC? Who decided that? Is it same on other exchanges? Why does BCC start at 0.01 BCC?"
> I'll give it 2 weeks until someone releases a framework allowing you to write functions that don't compile unless their input is a prime number.

Honestly that seems like it could be pretty useful for making sure that "correct" data is passed at compile-time...
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... and what is the fundamentals value? - In the end the value of the parts and hopefully a premium for expectable profits.
Dumb but will last longer ;)
Forget my Apple Watch at home = miss most meetings at work.

My new dependency.
In what form? I got one email on July 27
>...I was a supporter of Nuclear, though Fukushima taught me a very important lesson.

You missed the important lessons from Fukishima.

A major power plant suffered about the worst possible catastrophe that it could have through a combination of incompetence by the plant and its regulators. For all that, the highest estimates of death due to the evacuation are less than the deaths that come from a day of burning coal (when the coal plants don't have an accident). What about other power sources? Coal/gas/hydro all have much worse records than nuclear:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents

(The accident rate is also ignoring the long term, possibly existential, threat from climate changed due to using coal and natural gas.)

Ground based solar is probably the only power source that might be safer than nuclear.
That's an amazing article. Thanks for sharing.
That, and economy of scale. Were omnivores less that 5% of the population, no doubt we'd see higher prices there too.
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Actually... with many brokerages, you can still obtain actual paper stock certificates -- it's just that the overhead and fees to do that make it highly unattractive.

Furthermore: It is possible to directly transfer stocks from one brokerage account (similar to a wallet) to another at a different brokerage without having to liquidate assets.
Look, I'm pro-nuclear but 'if only everyone were as knowledgeable as me' is a losing communications strategy. seriously, why do you expect people to trust the engineering in a nuclear power plant when clever people can't even get the financing to work or the construction ot go smoothly?
My big question is: what do people do with theirs? Other than notifications and fitness tracking, I'm struggling to think of a use case for owning one.
Buy something from China in semi-bulk (e.g., 6–12x) on Alibaba / AliExpress and resell for profit from the US.

Even on very small purchases, like $3 phone cases, people are willing to pay 2-3x the price to be able to get them quickly from someone shipping from inside the US. While it's not _highly_ profitable after fees, I think you could automate and outsource most / all of the work.

Not sure if this totally aligns with what you and your friend are doing, but just an idea I've been wanting to try lately.
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>replicate an existing design in photoshop

AFAIK, the majority of designs are created in photoshop or illustrator. No conversion nessecary. In any case, I would consider it a liability if I didn't have my designs in an editable format. What if tommorow I realized I wanted a variant in a different color? Or I decided I wanted to use a different background? If all I had was a bitmap logo, I would consider it worthwhile to have someone change it into a scalable format anyways, even if I wanted to transfer them as PNGs.

Also, numerous free tool exist to convert bitmaps to SVG. Using one of these, plus some manual smoothing and correction, I'm sure the conversion would take no more than half an hour.
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Bought mine initially as an exercise tool, but found the GPS to be pretty incorrect - goal was to be able to run without the phone. But despite this (now running with phone), I still love it - surprised how much I enjoy it.
I was getting a ton of exercise with the Watch, broke it, and stopped exercising because I wasn't being reminded to.
Erlang has arbitrary length integers by default, and I've found it to be incredibly liberating.
Americans are throwing out their TVs
Ah, the China approach
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Not when the battery finally dies.
>It's not out of the ordinary to spend $400 on something like a Seiko or Citizen watch

That kind of depends on your definition of ordinary. Is it ordinary for somebody who buys a watch to spend $400 on it? absolutely. Is wearing a $400 watch ordinary? maybe not so much. Apple claimed to be selling more than Seiko or Citizen two years ago, and the apple watch was definitely a niche then. Apple has done well in the watch market but that's a long ways from iPhone-level success.
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It's already in the top 4 coins in market cap. Seems like a reasonable coin to support at this point.
Moz continues to amaze me.

- FF has terrible market share

- slower than chrome

- less addons than chrome

But month after month you see headlines of Moz working on projects NOT related to any of those.

Moz out of business in 5 years or less?

How long can a company fall this far behind and continue to ignore its main product?

Anyone remember that yahoo (lol) partnership they did?
Just thought I'd mention this. We started getting reports from users today when trying to generate a PDF. We were using window.open with a data URL.

Switched to blobs now.
I’ve been saying it all along: to understand the Apple Watch, look to the iPod. The first three years of iPod sales were minuscule compared to the following ten: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_qua...

The two products occupy a very similar space of affordable luxury; they are not world-changing like the Mac or iPhone, but category-defining. Through gradual iteration and segmentation, Apple slowly turned its niche product into a cultural force.

Just wait until the iPod Classic 5G equivalent of the Watch comes out.
Overall I still regret buying my Generation 1. The hardware was just not ready (Neither was the software, but the updates have improved it quite a bit over the 1.0 disaster). I knew I'd be an early adopter, so some rough edges are to be expected. Even so I experience(d) the following:

- Severe lag when triggering Siri

- Slow mail updates, to the point where I pull my phone out of my pocket anyway

- "This message contains elements Apple Watch cannot display". Seen way too often and it is frustrating.

- The wrist band mechanism failed to lock after ~4mo. Apple sent me a replacement Watch no questions asked which was great, but it took ~1mo to do so.

- The digital crown no longer rotates smoothly and instead feels like there's stuff clogging it. Washing the watch helps for a short while.

- Slow location updates, meaning a quick glance for at the local high/low weather is still often cities away after I arrive somewhere. Use case: Will I need my jacket with me later, or can I leave it in my car?

The heart rate monitor is great and my favorite feature, but not worth the $400 I paid for it.
I think its funny how AD is this mystery box to engineers who live outside the IT space.

This is potentially super useful for folks to build sweet integrations between AD and modern web applications (i.e: Chat, Ticketing, SAML, SCIM, etc) into a very industry standard Directory Service while abstracting away the Microsoft garb, and not having to worry about the LDAP translations with AD. (AD is LDAP compliant, but there are weird nuances.)

As someone who has to live in both worlds, this is super cool start and definitely welcomed.

@DC2 well done sir.
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Sorry, but if you slow the video to 0.25x and watch closely, you can see it's a firefly :P
NASA has released its exoplanet detection pipeline for Kepler
Talking to VC firm who was considering an investment in a quantum computing company, I was also blown away by how little science they attempted to understand. It doesn't make any sense to me. My best explanation is that they think it's simply impossible to become well-informed at a reasonable price, and instead just rely on aligning the interests of the founders with their own.
Just bought a car for the first time in 13 years. Still refuse to consider Nissan products due to their using the legal system to harass others using their family name over trademark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_vs._Nissan_Compu...

Nissan the car company name has nothing to do with a person named Nissan. It was landed upon by committee.

While I understand trademarks "must be defended" is part of the laws that govern them, the law is garbage. It's giving special privilege to already established human language when it's used like this.

If you take a known name and make a "trademark" around it, you should get no special protection.
So are you saying an Android device is or isn't a good alternative? They work just the same until they stop getting updated and have to be replaced with an iPad?
Is there even a competing top-of-the-line android watch? I was shopping around last November and got a Samsung watch over a couple of Garmin ones.