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Don't ship all the code to the client PC, run at least a small portion of the code on a server that you control. Doing this makes "cracking" your app useless because it still can't do the job without an account on the server for the server-side processing. This is basically what every MMO in existence did. MMO's are games that can only be played if you have a server-side account, because they took a chunk of code that historically would have been part of the normal game loop and moved it to the server where it can't be pirated. Yes, MMO's also enabled multi-player, but that could have been done a million ways that kept the core code on the end user's PC. The real advance was noticing that a server-subscription based MMO can print money while a non-server-based client-authoritative game architecture dies a rapid financial death due to piracy.
I don't view it as a 'do everything on the list' checklist. Instead, I see it as a list of options and you check the those that apply to your project. From this you generate your own tailored project checklist.
Yeah, this seems like a good idea and pretty doable. Every police car could have a drone that would be useful in a variety of situations. In a traffic stop, it could take off from the roof of the police car and land on the windscreen of the stopped car. A small screen can relay instructions to the driver while he is filmed.

With the prices of quite powerful drones coming down so dramatically, this might even be a cost effective way to save lives, while at the same time giving police an extra tool for lots of situations, not just traffic stops.

I wonder if there's business potential in making roof mounted drones that can land on windshields. Ideally, it could also record sound by latching onto the windshield and detecting vibrations with some sort of contact or laser microphone but I'm not sure how realistic that would be (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00542-015-2795-x looks like a start).
Plist files have two standard encodings, an XML-based textual one and a binary one. You can use plutil to convert between the two, e.g.

plutil -convert xml1 com.apple.Finder.plist

However, for preferences you probably want to use the `defaults` command instead, because IIRC they’re managed by a daemon (cfprefsd) that might not notice if you modify the backing files while it’s running.
How were option expiries manipulated when you were looking at them? Or do you just mean that stocks tend to trade differently when a large position is expiring? Sometimes it's just innocuous things like a market maker trading out of his delta from gamma.
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Default search scope is an option in the Finder's preferences window and has been ever since 10.7...
Speaking of which, are RLGs actually difficult to manufacture or is the military intentionally stopping them from getting into civilian hands? Even the best cell phone sensor fusion seems to result in an obnoxiously shitty map experience.
but I still pirate most major creative software

But do you make money out of this activity ?

Yet society deems that arbitrarily acceptable

Well it feels like society is OK with pirated content, no ? I only know 1 person in my environment that attacks me about it.
Admittedly, I have work to do there. Changing to a Responsive design is high on the TODO list.
Lol nice. I'm just going to try to answers theirs question that's all.
If your software is useful, and if you're a small company / one man show, I will pay for it, even if I barely have any money, or if I have lots of money. But the key for me is not having a really useless and stupid and intrusive anti-piracy mechanism, as that usually makes me go away from that software. Example of that are games like Kerbal Space Program that are useful, fun, and have no anti-piracy mechanism. I paid for it. And the other example is pretty much any huge game like GTA V, that I bought my brother as a gift but it often stops working and has to be reinstalled because it detects some tampering or something like that, it's from Steam BTW.

I'd also recommend that you DON'T offload processing to a server, as that will prevent people with spotty Internet (like me) or those in special circumstances / behind firewalls from using it properly, and also has data security issues.
Elon's recent email[0] to employees in response to higher injury claims in the Fremont factory is probably relevant

[0]:
> “No words can express how much I care about your safety and wellbeing. It breaks my heart when someone is injured building cars and trying their best to make Tesla successful.

Going forward, I’ve asked that every injury be reported directly to me, without exception. I’m meeting with the safety team every week and would like to meet every injured person as soon as they are well, so that I can understand from them exactly what we need to do to make it better. I will then go down to the production line and perform the same task that they perform.

This is what all managers at Tesla should do as a matter of course. At Tesla, we lead from the front line, not from some safe and comfortable ivory tower. Managers must always put their team’s safety above their own.”
This paragraph summarizes the theory behind the pill.

> The theory behind Basis is in part an evolution of the theory behind drinking red wine: One of its main ingredients, pterostilbene, is considered a more powerful version of resveratrol, with a more convincing track record in the lab. As for NR, by increasing NAD levels in our cells, it in turn appears to reverse mitochondrial decay. In a 2013 scientific paper, Sinclair announced that a single week of injections of an NAD precursor into elderly mice had made their muscles look young again, though without restoring their strength. Both compounds aim to activate sirtuins, and the hope is that together they might amplify what each does individually.
I know Musk likes to take risks and push his companies and employees to the brink, but given the massive demand for the model 3, Tesla stock price, and 1.8 billion funding they just got, it seems like they can afford to create better working conditions for their workers.
I hear ya. Someone once told me (I don't sell software/music/whatever so have no idea if this is true) - for every 5 people, 2 will always pay, 1 will always pirate, and the 2 will buy if given good reason (be that price point, sales pitch, ease, guilt, etc.).
Visiting my friend's parents in Luxembourg, her brother said "motherfucker" to his mother. I was stunned into silence.

I never swear in my second language. Since I don't have anything close to an understanding of how the words should be used, it's unlikely that I'd be understood as I intended.
How many languages do you speak more or less fluently?
Previous discussion on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345526
Whose military?

If you "RTFA" you will observe that OFCOM is the UK regulator.
I think I should have used the word "scrum" instead of "agile". Most scrum teams I have seen look like a micro-managed waterfall that are extremely reluctant to change anything because they need story points.

True agile works fine but it seems most agile frameworks lead to non agile work.
> Do anyone think in a language?

I speak 3 languages, 2 natively and the third for my entire adult life. I can get by in a couple more to the point where most people would probably claim they could speak them, and I agree with you, I rarely if ever think in language.

I mean I can even remember a few times where I was thinking in some language and I quit because I noticed it was slowing me down having to actually put words on the concepts.

Usually, the only time I think in language is when I have to be very precise with how I'm communicating to someone i.e. giving a presentation or negotiating some important matter and I need internal feedback on how the sentence or phrase is going to sound and work in the context I'm about to use it in.

For instance, let's take an example like studying some result in a dataset. Let's say its a property like price of an item. I will not be thinking in language X when I'm studying this and its relation to say "weekday", its usually some kind of vague geometric movement or something associated with my innate concepts of "price" and "weekday".

I suspect most people are actually like this, they just don't notice it as much because whenever they do switch to language mode its either a much more diliberate process (second language learners) or transparent (monolinguals).
"In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority." -- James Madison
Video evidence is meaningless without accountability
A worthwhile read: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-death-of-experti.... Available from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Expertise-Campaign-Established-....

Of course, there is a difference between "expert" and "expertise". Still, Nichol's book makes an interesting read.
I don't think GP meant watermarking the video, only software binary itself.
That's my first point: if they wouldn't have bought it anyway, you've lost nothing
> anyone who starts talking about “detoxification” and “toxins” is likely to be a quack. It’s a buzzword, something that plays to peoples’ mistaken ideas about medicine and biochemistry, that there are all these toxins from the environment that have to be flushed out somehow for you to be healthy.

Is this true? Waste products need to be transported out of the cells and their environment, right? And they can be toxic. Why is this a controversy?
Because with bot you can just shut them down when they don't behave like you expected or when you dont need them.

I don't think that knowing you can do this and successfully fooling your internal anti-loneliness mechanisms are compatible. You simply won't get the full range of emotional stimuli.
Author here - cool to see this posted to HN!

As I touched on at the end of the article, I really don't have a clue what I'm doing in Vulkan, so any feedback from folks who know even a little bit of what they're doing is very, very welcome.

I'm just trying to slowly work through the complete ignorance stage of learning something new.
M-code contains time and ephemeris data, yes? (Since it's supposed to be "autonomous".) It seems like it would be quite easy to detect replay attacks.
Well one "advantage" of having an official crack web page is to give the software cracked without virus.
The takeaway I get from this is that whenever the Kremlin is attacked, they'd rather the nearby Airports take the hit.

I guess then no one will leave, and no one will come in.
I'd have to think Tesla sees the "human equation" as being the biggest and/or most unpredictable cost of car manufacturing, and Elon's stated goal of being the world's best manufacturer - with the focus on "building the machine that builds the machine", means they are going to try to automate everything.

If I was an auto worker, I'd be very concerned. I'm not saying auto workers should stop complaining, but the more they complain and try to unionize, the quicker the automation will come about. They're in a catch-22
Musk said something at TED about it being related to tunnel diameter and I imagine this test track having a pretty small tunnel compared to say a subway.
This is kind of fun, so to play some more: suppose the spoofing platform is mobile; say, a UAV that starts out very very near the target of the spoofing, and gradually moves away at a rate designed to confuse such a check.

You can see why military stuff gets expensive. The world gets complicated when folks are actively trying to screw with you.
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I think it's just because airplane incidents catch people's attention, make the news, etc. Combined with the idea that they know they would be powerless, as passengers, to do anything if it happened to them.

You can rationalize different ways you could help ensure your own survival in maritime or police incidents. Despite that you often can't.

So people are supportive of extraordinary measures, regulation, because of all that.
Sublime charges a fair penny for what is a text editor and many KVMs are steeply priced as well. For the cost of the Adobe products you could buy multiple operating systems or whole workstations.

In general, I'd say developers have quite a bit of freedom to price their software based on their effort or the benefit it provides.
Would a warning about piracy in the FAQ be too much for you as a paying customer ?
See gottebp's comment for more, but much of the price is to cover support for a group of users where it's seldom easy or quick.

Edit: thanks autocorrect
Honestly, most agile people don't think safe is agile.

It was literally created to try to fit agile methods into company that still thinks in waterfall.
That is indeed the argument and I don't think it is necessarily a bad one.

Academic papers are both jargony and written in specialist notation and are not generally accessible to lay people without background in the field. I don't see how it is really much different.
Your company isn't doing Scrum at all. Your management is only using agile vocabulary and that's where the parallels end. And that's how Scrum gets a bad name.
I like the free for non commercial use solution, like SmartGit.
Why is "cost of an operating system" the relevant benchmark?
I think aviation has less a blame somebody culture. In notice especially in the US there is always the question whose fault something was instead of asking what went wrong and how to avoid it in the future.

Medicine could also benefit from an attitude that doesn't blame the individual but looks for ways to avoid problems later.
Not necessarily. If you would otherwise earn X in a fulfilling job but by resting and vesting in an unfulfilling environment you make 3X because of the vested equity, it might make sense to stay a few years in the latter and try to not completely waste your time by, for example, keeping learning other technologies not related to your actual tasks with the hope of remaining somewhat competitive. It's not "never work again" money, but it certainly can make a difference towards an early retirement.
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Whole new meaning to, "this car drives like crap"
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Start slow. Pick a friend you want to get to know better, share some light shared domain related concern or fear with them (work related, hobby related, etc), and see how it is received. If they are empathetic and supportive then you can open up more over time as you build trust. If they aren't serious or brush you off then you haven't really lost much social capital and you can move on to someone else.
Haha, That is awesome! Seems the git learning curve never ends. Alas, it is a cgi file which dynamically generates the pages over lighttpd. Good to know though!!
Thats a really cool project that looks a lot like the computer equivalent of that anti-shake spoon.

That said, my inital reaction to the homepage of your website wasn't super appealing to what your product actually does. I understand it perfectly, but I know my grandma probably wouldn't. I think this would be solved via the 'kickstart-esque' like advertising, where there is a promo video right upfront, where your product and what it does is right center screen when you go to your website, rather than a giant banner and your logo. Call it generic, but I'm thinking of one of those medical commercials that show the problem with shaky hands, and then shows the difference with steadymouse.

The manual I think would be realllly hard for my folks to understand, due to all the up-front tech talk. Rather, they'd like to know how to install it, and how to run it so that it 'just works'. For example, the entire piece you have there about versioning and user information is very confusing. Essentially, it looks like your product is only usful to very computer learned individuals who have unsteady hands. Even if I setup the software for someone, how are they going to figure out what it does or use it themselves?

other than that, I think your actual product is great and I'll certainly remember it.
What kind of world have we created where we fear being liberated from the need to work?
"Upholding the law" is such a subjective idea. An officer can uphold the law by running a speed traps and earning the department more money. They could alternatively do difficult investigatory work looking into violent crimes that would deliver more value to the community. If a community is the employer of officers it seems strange that officers would be held accountable to anything besides the needs of the community.

Developers live in a world of scrum, points, and delivering value. I think whoever pays for the officers salary should be the "product owner" of the police department.
I admire the knack Musk has for extracting government subsidies.

However, with all that money one could do better than pay $5/hour to your subcontracted workers in California [1] or have one third higher number of injuries than industry average (this article).

[1] -- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/16/elon-musk...
This approach can be used for code and resources. For simpler games it is easier to just not bank the code, but for more resource intensive games you can end up banking code and resources.
The basic problem is that Coursera wasn't successful in attaching some meaningful value to their certificates as credentials. And, if the credential isn't meaningful, why on earth would I want to pay a VC-funded company for a PDF that has zero value to me? Taking the course may be worthwhile but a certificate adds essentially nothing to that.

So now they've effectively eliminated just about the only thing that distinguishes them from some YouTube videos and a textbook.
It is more remote than digital Nomad but let me check it! I am surprised there are not more remote working sites.
> If you want to release your set of plugins to the world, pirates will have to match the versions of those plugins to the versions of their application, and if there are other plugins in the internet, they will also have to match.

Are you relying on constantly making breaking changes to the plugin API for this to work? Otherwise, it may just be the case that pirates haven’t figured out that they need to disable the version checking-part of your app. It sounds a bit like security through obscurity, unless I’m missing something.
Right, and regular network channels don't cost as much as ESPN and Fox Sports (for example), and also offer a variety of programming.
Truth and freedom tend to be the first casualties of war.
If you are waiting for N observations, so that a NHST will have some level of power, and you assume each observations is drawn from the same distribution (as your test likely does), then you do not see each observation as noise.

You will just be acting under reduced certainty, but if you have to act, any information is better than no information.

(I'd be very interested to hear your statistical explanation).
Asset forfeiture is arguably more pernicious than fines.
From the article:

> The way it works now, civilians often feel like the ones responsible for keeping violence at bay. In May, an African-American journalist named Tonya Jameson was changing the license plates on the used S.U.V. she had recently bought when an off-duty officer accused her of stealing the car — and pointed his gun at her. Ms. Jameson had proof of ownership in a bag that sat on the ground nearby, but she dared not move a muscle.

> Ms. Jameson told me that the words “black people can die like this,” kept running through her head. “That was my mantra. I knew I had to be careful not to freak him out. If he killed me, no one would know what really happened.”

> She spoke in a soothing voice, explaining to the police officer that if he looked in the bag, he would find the bill of sale. Instead he kept his gun trained on her and called in reinforcements.

When someone is "on the edge" like that, in a situation like that, I'll consider therapy in prison for them, but that's about it.
> Not to be rude, but how can that be ? Isn't your wife supposed to be your best/closest friend ?

A partner is different than a friend. I have wonderful times with my girlfriend and I love hanging out with her. But I can't bitch to my girlfriend about how my girlfriend drives me up the wall when she leaves her crap everywhere, or how annoying it is when her allergies act up and the constant sniffling makes me want to claw my brains out.

Bitching/venting about your partner is important, you need friends for that.

My girlfriend will also never understand just why it's so important to be the fastest out of a random group of guys down a hill on a bike or akateboard. Yeah it's dangerous and dumb but I can't let the other fuckers beat me in a pointless competition now can I?

Need guy friends to do atupid guy things. Women don't get it.
You haven't seen cargo cult until you've worked in an organisation with a pmo, and tranditional project management.

I had to literally write a 5 page business case for relatively small features that takes more than 5 days. You then had to get it approved by the pmo board. These people have no product management skills either.

Once it's a approved I have to write a full plan and schedule.

Companies like this exist.

This is what agile was a reaction to.
Can attest this. Area near Kremlin is spoofed to Vnukovo airport for several years already. There were reports about putin's dacha spoofed to the nearest aiport too.

I really do not know about reasons and efficacy. Professional grade multi-gnss receivers can easily filter this crap out, at least they could 5 years ago...
> You read articles that say it should be possible to complete a user story within a single sprint, ideally within a few days. That’s entirely accurate.

I'm surprised by that, as I tend to break down stories even smaller, to the point where they can be completed in a day or two. Anything that takes longer I consider risky and potentially a rogue story that could end up eating a lot of time.

Smaller stories are easier to manage, easier to refactor, it's much easier to review the resulting code and they usually have less complexity. I think it's sometimes easier to clear blockers with smaller stories as well.

Downsides are that it can be harder to get an overall view on the progress being made during a sprint, and sometimes tasks can have more dependencies or it can be harder to work on things in parallel. It also takes more time to prioritise the backlog.
I don't mean to say that there aren't problems, just that they are fewer today than ever before.

It only takes a particularly new graphics card, or certain wireless chipset to give even battle-hardened users a novel and painful experience.