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What we need is a fully decentralised and uncontrollable Internet. It can't be wireless, that's too slow (limits of physics), and jamming it too easy. We need to actually dig our own cables, those are untraceable, and they'd have to cut one by one. OR we could probably leverage power lines, as much as I hate introducing noise into those. There is no 100% foolproof software solution given the current state of the net.
The Church in Germany (churches actually, the Protestant alliance is about as large as the Catholic church) goes beyond that by not only having their schools, hospitals and so on de facto paid for by the state (always in part, sometimes 100%) but also getting to impose their own laws on their employees instead of having to adhere to the secular labour laws.

Had an abortion? Came out as gay? Got a divorce? If you work for a "Catholic" hospital that can easily result in the termination of your employment even if your salary comes 100% from the state and this discrimination would be illegal if the hospital were secular.

It's a widespread misconception (even within Germany) that Germany is a secular nation or has a separation of church and state. That no single religious group is formally given exclusive privileges or that we're not under the direct rule of any religious leader doesn't change that fact.
What's wrong with people that they would pay $1000+ for a phone that is maybe only 5% better than a $200 one?
Interesting. Then why does everything look and behave so poorly? And if it's so easy, why doesn't React Native ship with at least every default native control wrapped?

Edit: what a beautiful example of what I'm talking about: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/371
> They have no idea what viruses are, what malware is, what ransomware is and despite being hired to maintain infrastructure, I must continuously explain my decisions to people who do not maintain infrastructure and wouldn't know how with a gun to their head

Nobody hires someone outside their domain of expertise and then leaves them to do whatever. Your constantly justifying your recommendations is, like it or not, a critical part of your job.
Am I correct in my understanding that this does still use Electron? (And if so, what is it used for?)
This is an interesting comment but you should edit it to remove the spaces at the beginning of the lines to make it more readable.
Maxime from Algolia here.
There is a lot of things out there to build docs.
(Sphinx, readme.io, jekyll, middleman, web frameworks, ...).

All those tools are good at what they do. When you want to do something very specific/custom, you will always end up needing something outside the scope of those products.

So far at Algolia, middleman is the one we're using for our main documentation. We had to tweak it a lot and reimplement some parts but it works and we should be able to keep it running for a while.
To clarify, he means he can both use it as a mass storage device on any platform, as well as it can be used boot an ISO if needed.

An iPhone can do neither of those things.
> I always take a 2-year contract. About one week before the new iPhone launch (and, conveniently, the end of my contract term), I sell my iPhone. My 6S with 64GB went this weekend for €450, which was the asking price. Next week I won't be able to get that price since there's a new model.

I usually sell my iPhones and iPads after the new one has been delivered, preferably on the first weekend of the month. In my experience you won't have to expect a significant decrease in value after release. People know there's a new iPhone - it's not a surprise, even for non-tech audiences, and people will spent accordingly.

However the supply will be larger after release, no doubt, but one could argue that this applies to size of target audience as well. People will look for second hand iPhones after release.

In any case the resale value of Apple products is nothing short of amazing.
>are password-protected with a hardcoded password.

This is pretty scary stuff. I suspect dlink just resells generic firmwares and add branding while the real OEM is so no-name Chinese shop that provides everything but the industrial design of the plastic case. With generic OEMs like these you can't burn your key into the hardware, so you more or less have to do non-key passwords, which as the article shows, are trivially cracked on modern equipment.

I think its safe to say budget brands are usually a security risk. They just don't have the funding to actually take security seriously, even if the engineers have the political will to do so.

This is also the same D-link that was sued by the FTC for its poorly secured cameras, which I believe were also a rebranding of a no-name OEM product.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/01/ftc-c...

I find that Netgear, Cisco small business, and Linksys aren't perfect, they are miles ahead of d-link, belkin, and other budget brands for home use and really don't cost all that much more. I'm pleasantly surprised to see how often my Netgear gets security updates and Linksys/Cisco small business line is wonderful for the price.

That said, most consumers will be on the receiving end of a ISP provided router. I suspect a good chunk of these things aren't actually internet facing, they're behind the ISP router and working as a access point, but typically consumers won't or can't put them in access point mode. I think there's a lot of dumb luck in home networking that ironically keeps people secure because if they knew how to put the ISP router/modem into gateway mode they'd be in a lot more trouble once their dlinks and belkins are internet facing.
SJ didn't go to a big university but do I fear for MIT/Stanford type schools.

To get in now you need to be a robot who can ace standardized tests, who spends their whole childhood doing math problems and has no real contact with the real world aside from two pieces of flair suggested by a guidance counseller in order to get into an ivy.
TLDR: Letting the compiler figure out both types (with template argument deduction) and constructors (with brace initialization) is a bad idea, causing embarrassing type errors in common, practical cases. Either or both sides should be explicit.

There are some good points, particularly about messy exceptions to messy type deduction rules, but I'm deeply irritated by the willingness to bend the language specification, or at least coding guidelines, to care for developers who don't bother to read code or documentation and hope to guess constructors successfully.
I can't put into words how ashamed I am as a Brazilian.

Our country is going to hell in a handbasket.
The use of a mobile phone can also be considered a deception of the time tracking system.
No, it's not about burial practices. It's about birth-to-burial without registration, and without any investigation of the context. Mass infanticide by negligence.

What happened was that young unmarried women in Ireland were forcibly institutionalised, separated from their children, told the children would be put up for adoption, and not told when the children died due to the neglect of the institution.

Where the children survived, the church tended to hinder contact between adoptees and birth mothers even when it was wanted by both sides.

And this is inseperable from the religious context of punishing the "sinning" women. A problem which is still ongoing in the fight for abortion access in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Yes, this is clearly a reaction to political correctness, which is why they got rid of housing for the ~privileged~ straight white men and--oh, what? This was traditional housing for exactly the sort of queer people, minorities, and lower-income students who get blamed for hating "speakers who commit wrongthink"? While protests that don't do much are referred to as "burning campus," the people actually hurt by real actions are just the people all those dang SJWs keep saying are being hurt? Weird.
BoingBoing seems to be nothing but advertising these days, I sometimes still go to it out of habit but I feel so marketed to every time it loads.
You make 200k as a developer?
This article reminds me of this polychronization paper that describes how networks of spiking neurons result in the emergence of groups, and some discussion on how that could explain consciousness as attention to memory.

http://izhikevich.org/publications/spnet.htm
It's possible if there isn't an easy mechanism to exchange the benefits of the mining. If there is, in a large enough market, the people who benefit from the nodes being run could pay others a premium to run the nodes, and that premium can be thought of as part of the "payout".
Ricketts wasn't shuttered, just put on notice.
In the Bible Belt it's hard not to run across snake oil salesman, but an article for a faith and development class stressed how important them and prosperity gospel might actually be for the global south. If you come from nothing and have nothing and it's a massive generational climb to win any kind of power, a fervent if even delusional belief that against all odds god is going to grant you health and riches can actually be an incredible motivator. It leads to effective projects that actually empower the community like the above.

Not sure how to feel about it. Joseph Smith for example was a complete charlatan and liar, but some of the most honest and hardworking people in tech and elsewere you will ever meet are Mormons. There's a lot of people on HN who have wrong beliefs about tech but are incredibly productive in spite of (or because of it), so it's hard to judge people too much if it works for them.
Sorry for the unfriendly tone, some of them were written after reading some reddit comments...

And as explained in the FAQ, you can always go to the yue/help repo to report things and I will read them.
Doesn't NASA use Russian rockets to actually get to space?
The Costco visa adds additional 2 years of warranty to all electronics purchased at Costco. It's a nice little feature.
Is the license similar to the React one?

Edit: Not trying to start a controversy or anything, I've never seen the Microsoft Reciprocal License before, it just looks like a similar idea. I'll just go look it up.
"That isn't remotely what that article (or the paper it summarises) suggests -- it has nothing whatsoever to do with desertification"

Yes it is and yes it does. (But to find this out you have to read all the way to the end.)

The idea is that monsoon patterns were changed and the dry season extended which heated the land and resulted in more aridity. It's not a fringe theory at all and there is a fair degree of evidence for it.

Point being, primitives didn't necessarily live in Harmony with nature at all. Any more than we do. They just (to address your later point) were less "effective".
فوائد واضرار عدسات العين وانواعها – حياتنا الصحية
That's a non-answer. I'm asking people who buy high end phones why they pay extra. A phone with faster processor and more memory can't be the only reason people pay extra for these devices, which is all I'd get from comparing specs.
Tips on how to make your e-learning website successful
Quad core – A Commodore 64 demo requiring 4 machines to run
Adasky – This new solid-state thermal vision sensor could improve self-driving
Svelte does now offer an option to compile directly to web components, though it's experimental at this time. You could give StencilJS a go - it's web components through and through, and uses Typescript.
Facebook hit with €1.2m fine in Spain for breaking privacy laws
This. The Web should become re decentralized. Identity breaches now happening all the time. Central databases are crack to NSA, advertising agencies and others. But there is hope!

https://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2017/08/centralization-and-o...
Whats the name of your business?
This is how we're approaching it with Stencil: https://stenciljs.com/
It does not use electron, it is total native and does not use web engines, but it can be used in electron as a Node.js mudule.
I wrote a semi-popular blog for a couple years as I was coming up in the advertising agency world as a digital strategist.

I knew enough about media planning to not bother trying to monetize my content; the ROI would never pay off if that were the goal, and I'd caution against it, unless you already have an active audience in the 10,000+ range who is anxiously waiting to hear your personal thoughts about a specific topic.

The likely outcome is farther below your expectations than you're likely to guess. We're talking thousands of hours before you make hundreds of dollars. And the income from this activity is the opposite of "passive". Content creation is the least scalable activity you could engage in.

The strategy that worked for me - and works for nearly everyone who sticks with it for something like 18+ months - was to use writing (or other content creation) as proof of expertise, seriousness, and passion. Proof that you're an interesting person worth listening to about something that's important to someone else.

My blog dramatically accelerated a career, led to important new business relationships, speaking opportunities, and let me do consulting projects (which often generate more revenue in a week than a site could make in a year).
Worth every penny you paid me for it!
I think it's only available indoors because it's secretly filled with mayonnaise (non-newtonian fluid.) But on a serious note, it's plausible that whatever they've filled the bump with degrades under temperature conditions outside of what you'd find indoors.
Full paper: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2017.00...
A lot of people (including myself) like long-throw clicky keyboards given the choice. However, especially with the wholesale shift to laptops, they're far less familiar to people than they once were. I do like my mechanical keyboards but I admit that I use other keyboards so much of the time that I don't feel I "have" to use them like I once did. (And, indeed, I may have to adjust a little if I haven't used them in a while.)
A tool for passive data capture and reconnaissance of serial flash chips
Working of Certification Based Replication in Galera Cluster
ShopKeep, Lifetime Value and the Happy Product Manager
The main problem I have with the hardware isn't price (although value is an issue with a lot of this hardware), it's longevity. I don't expect any specific model to last very long, but these things don't generally last long enough to get successors and build up any kind of ecosystem around them.

As for the A1222, I think people are going to be disappointed by the performance (cf. PS3 Linux). As far as I know, e500 is in-order and only mildly superscalar. The P1022 is pretty much designed to run a compact low-power router/firewall or act as the offload engine on a NIC, not to be used as an application processor.
You don't have to wonder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atol...
I'm not sure how I feel about Senior House overall, but the misuse of the survey data enraged me. We have such a hard time getting people at MIT to seek help for mental health issues and stupid bullshit like this is exactly why. People should not he punished for trying to seek help, health data should never be shared with people who are not health care professionals, and it's astoundingly unethical to use people's health care data or metadata to run studies without their explicit consent.
This reminds me of the arguments about whether popular bands should raise ticket prices on the one hand, or create the conditions for ticket scalpers on the other.

Let's say Apple wants to be as innovative in hardware as a company like Essential – and therefore use components or manufacturing processes that aren't available at the scale of tens of millions per quarter. What should Apple do?

* Not innovate. Leave this for smaller companies; wait for the price to come down. Risk: lose market, engineers, and ability to build competence, to other companies.

* Release in limited supply at a low price; leave the surplus to rent seekers (scalpers). Risk: Leaves money on the table; insert middleman in relationship between Apple and (ultimate) customers.

* Release in limited supply at a low price; attempt to control scalping by limiting sales per customer and locking phones to the original purchaser. Risk: Complicated mechanism that people will hate.

* Charge a higher price, in order to set demand to supply. Risk: Bad image; magnifies effects of wealth inequality.
> If a Muslim organization were to provide similar charity at similar scale

I was under the impression that Muslim organizations do provide these services at a similar scale.
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I'd upvote but for the call for the last two sentences. It sounds like "if only we could abort these kids, they would have never been treated this way."
Square was great. During my time there, the company doubled in size, tripled in valuation, built a plethora of new products, and experienced all the chapters in the adolescence of a successful startup. Everyone was intelligent, most of them treated their coworkers well, and nearly all felt a sense of camaraderie and loyalty to the company as a whole. Left for YC, but if I had to do it all again, I might choose to stay! Those were good times.
I'm not quite sure the $1K price for the X is Apple playing the Veblen game here.

Gruber seems to hint that the OLED display is still single-sourced by Samsung and incredibly expensive to boot:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/09/06/samsung-oled-mo...

The price may just be what it is until the price of the display comes down. Apple could also be trying to modulate demand because of the low display availability, but in the case of iPhone it will probably backfire and cause demand to increase.
I see. I guess I was confused by this:

(FTA:) "The company will also enter new territory on price: The latest phone will start at about $1,000, compared with the $769 minimum for its current top phone, the iPhone 7 Plus."

So they are comparing 'top' to 'top' here. Got it.
>and everywhere else had it more expensive.

Once you correct for VAT and currency, you'll find a lot of foreign iphone sales aren't really expensive. USA pricing does not include taxes and the dollar is fairly strong now.

>Well Apple already knew certain people are buying at those prices, again why not make a product that fit those segment?

I think the larger issue here is that Apple can't maintain 2008 level pricing a decade later especially as China stops being so cheap for labor. Toss in US consumers buying on credit for 24 months and its a no-brainer we'd see price jumps. Apple isn't taking a cut on its margins, so it has to do a price increase eventually.

That's on top of the phones having expensive high quality components, NAND shortages, and the cost of rare earth elements going up every so often. Prices aren't scaling for components it seems. A high quality display in 2017 isn't the same price of one in 2008, plus inflation. A modern SoC now has to support HDMI, displayport, 4-8 cores, LTE, etc all come at a component cost as well as a licensing cost. Modern phones are more or less mini laptops now, so the dream of a 'simple' ARM device is long dead. We more or less have the desktop re-invented on ARM platforms and expect them to do anything from calls to word processing to 3D gaming. That's a far cry from the original iphone and its simple apps and simple OS.

Perhaps this is the old man part of me talking, but I absolutely fell in love with smartphones in the early days. My Treo was a wonder and the iPhone twice so. The simplistic aspects of it was incredible. Everything was snappy. Apps were a couple megabytes, if that. It did the minimum I needed and then some. Now, of course, that's all changed, but for a few years there I kind had the star-trek like device I always imagined. Now I'm back to a mini-desktop, lag, big complex apps, a near unusable mobile web, constant nags for reviews/notifications, etc. The only saving grace is that a lot of that is abstracted away from me as I move towards a lot of automation and voice interfaces (voice commands, google home, etc) and I simply developed lowered expectations of the mobile experience.
Productivity hacks to rule kindergarten like a Silicon Valley Boss
Ah! That sounds a bit better. I could see children calling their grandfather or older family friend that.
We don't need a coherent national identification system. We don't have a global one, the EU doesn't have one, why does the US need one?

Centralized identification is bad. There exists no competent, accountable, trustworthy party to administer it. It inherently gets abused to aggregate information about people that should be private. Monolithic systems are slow to adapt, allowing attackers to continuously outflank them.

When a bank needs to identify you, let them use your bank account number. When a doctor needs to identify you, let them use your patient ID number. And never the two shall meet.
> Both Android and iOS have been improving and refining (visually!) their UI elements, but this has not been done in the web, basically because there isn't a huge company calling the shots behind it.

I don't know about the other browsers, but Firefox defaults to displaying buttons the same way the OS does, so any visual refinement is adopted automatically. Of course the majority of websites override this to get full control over the look, which I find to be quite superfluous in most cases. The text field I'm typing this in and the "reply" button below it work perfectly fine without any fancy styling.
Full comment quoted:

>"Nigerian here, and yes this is truly happening in my country not just in Lagos state but all around with Ogun state pretty much taking the lead for the position of most mega churches in Nigeria.

>"It is very nauseating that with all the poverty in my country snake oil prophets; (which is what they majorly are) would rather build mega churches/houses; (as their houses are mostly built with the churches) and schools with outrageous tuition fees from the proceeds of offering and tithes from those same gullible congregants who can't then afford to attend such schools or build such mega churches/houses for themselves." //
Monte Carlo simulations to determine the arrival of Tropical-Storm-Force Winds
Software has been increasing in size over time since the beginning of software. This will never change. It goes hand in hand with why hardware keeps getting bigger capacity too. I agree that some of it is bloat, but some of it is more features and content too. When the OS adds a little, and the libraries add a little, and the apps add a little, the downloads get more than a little bigger, but it can be a side-effect of everyone adding useful features at every level.

There will always be a hardware limit, so if you install apps up to your limit, you will eventually have to delete some of them, no matter how small the apps are and no matter how big your phone's memory capacity is. You can't entirely blame that on developers, it's your budget to deal with. You can buy a bigger phone or install fewer apps. I like to keep a good 20-30% of my memory free just so things I depend on have room to grow.

You also have the option to swap out apps continually. It'd be a pain in the ass for sure, but if the least important app on your phone that you had to delete is really one you couldn't live without, you have the option to delete something else and re-install it, and then swap back later.