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A community that hasn't established a semaphore for updating the code isn't a community. It is hard to build that with consensus instead of input from its creator.

The nature of what succeeds in opensource has everything to do with whether the creator puts community work in themselves, nominates someone, or just publishes read-only code.

Naturally, anyone is free to do whatever they like.. but most people seem to expect a result from their actions and publishing pure code is rarely going to have any result.
You are probably not going to like what I am going to tell you, but as a small company fighting a large company with lawyers you will lose even if you are in the right. The big company will out spend and delay you until your money runs out.

In my opinion the best you can hope for is to be credible enough pain that it is cheaper and easier to buy you out rather than fight you. Rather than fight directly look for the soft underbelly.
Scaring people away by shooting at them should be a more serious offence than just making a mess. Of course it already is, so I don't really see the point of adding more felonies.

Really the problem isn't that people demand more and more felonies, but rather that they demand felonies for things that are already illegal.
Yep, I'm using a Nexus 4 picked up nearly 2 years ago off ebay for around $US60.

It gets the monthly security updates. I guess I worry about the binary blobs that vendors may or not be updating but that's true of any hardware no longer receiving updates.
Yeah, I dress according to the people I am meeting and what I hope to get out of the meeting. News at 11.

I am all for a meaningful debate about equality for all, and the barriers to this, however there is an increasing amount of bullshit like this around the topic that weakens and dilutes the overall debate, and that is a pity.
I wonder how good A-star would be at solving something like this? The hard part would be figuring out a good heuristic, but I bet with some experimentation you could come up with something (number of correct facelets, or cubelets, or number of moves to correctly place all cubelets if they moved independently...).

Probably hard to make the heuristic admissable though, so the solution wont be optimal.
Also called price anchoring [0] in marketing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
Using credit cards in the US give a pretty high level of consumer protection (over and above usual consumer protection laws) although not as much as buying an explicit warranty.
Apple have a lot to answer for, and there are a lot of flaws with iOS devices, but this isn't one of them.

5 years of updates for a smartphone is pretty good. From Android, I think only certain Sony phones even come close to that.

By now, the battery cells will be damaged, the CPU/RAM too slow or limited, the flash memory wearing out. Time for a new phone :)
Your water example is ill conceived because bottled water often considered a reasonable purchase in bulk yet it is also a vastly larger price increase vs just a 5x on a phone.

Bottled water is basically the same thing just in slightly more convenient form yet it's ~1000x as expensive. Because it's not the relative price that's important it's the price relative to the benifit.
the noble/happy trap is closer to reality than the primitive/pitiable trap.
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Without links to the actual proposal this sounds like a propaganda piece.
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I don’t get where communism comes from. This is my view on personal responsibility and nothing more, and I naively expect people to have similar dedication to open source software as me. I understand this is not always the case, but I have described the perfect world as I see it in my comment above.
This story is very weird and either I'm missing the point or it only shows that everything is broken. Eileen Carey a CEO of a company that focus on software to empowering a diverse workforce dyes her her to be taken more seriously.
I'd like to second this:

> to be honest about the project

Sometimes you see the attitude "You get what you pay for", but putting code in the ecosystem without property explaining what it is is like littering.

In the same way I want to be able to walk in the park without constantly checking the ground for dog shit, I want to be able to use software without having to audit every part personally because the author didn't care for it, or communicate that fact.
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I agree that there are problems searching large volumes of user-generated content when it isn't referenced much long term (Reddit, Twitter, etc.). If I don't keep record of Tweets myself I rarely find them again.
I'm certainly not arguing for no abstraction! Use as much as you need; nobody argues with that. These are just places where the bar for "need" isn't an afterthought, and effort is taken to keep abstractions minimal to avoid their cost.

> Ethernet, IPv4, TCP, DNS, TLS, graphical image formats, switched networks, load balancers

These abstractions exists because they are necessary. They are a bit of a mess, admittedly, but invested people have worked hard to make what they were given as small a mess as they can manage, and what is left exists because it has to historically. When your packets get pulled through hardware specifically designed to do exactly that, the abstraction almost ceases to be. (Disclaimer: not a network person)

> HTTP, HTML, JavaScript

These abstractions are why 12 billion instructions per second per core counts as slow now.
It's the same propaganda with no actual quotes from the proposed laws they are opposing.
The odd thing is, I never had to worry about this stuff in the UK. There's no notion of a credit score or centralised credit agencies that I needed to worry about.

This the opposite of how things are here in the UK.

I'm wondering how you've not encountered Equifax, Experian, Noddle and the other credit reference agencies in the UK before.

Even an application for a mobile phone contract in the UK will definitely end up going through these agencies at some point, and your bank most certainly will consult them when applying for a loan.
A right to "expect" is a right to control your own though, unless you mean something else?
> "Oh you can't code? Must not have gene A!"

To which the response could be: "You can't perform logical reasoning? Must not have gene B!"
I guess one way it posting it on HN. This is probably the 10th time I've seen the page mentioned and I guess HN people are the exact audience for the site.
Svelte(https://svelte.technology/) is one similar idea. It’s a framework that compiles down to plain JS before being shipped out to browsers.

There’s a couple of concerns though:

#1

How are we going to manage browser inconsistencies? We are very much better than what we were when jQuery came out. Yet we aren’t 100% there either. Browser inconsistencies, still do exist and runtime frameworks try to deal with it.

#2

I’ll take Svelte as an example. Say, a component written in Svelte is 2 lines long. The compiled JS file of that component is around 200 lines long (verified). Out of these 200 lines of code, almost a hundred lines are repeating units that occur in every component file.

By the time my app reaches a hundred components, this extra 100 lines gets multiplied by 100 times. This bloat is exactly what we want to avoid with runtime frameworks.

So, let’s think of the simplest solution.

Why not ship these repeating units of code as one module/set/block of code, that gets reused in different places?
But wait, isn’t that block of code is what we call “Runtime Frameworks” ?

I still think compile-time frameworks are the best bet we’ve got. Would be helpful if somebody can throw light on these aspects though.
There is so many ways to implement backdoors in CPUs, even completely analog ones:

https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/an-analog-charge-pump-fabric...
It's not just Facebook - I've heard of other M&A teams working in a similar way. If you're considerably further ahead than them then they'll buy your company, otherwise they'll go for a clone strategy instead.

Since I started looking into the M&A world I've learned you just can't take stuff like this too personally.

Related: http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html
My guess was speeding laden trucks.

It looks like a great MVP, and within car parks would guarantee an almost predictable max load weight.
Because Amazon, due to economy of scale, low wage employees, automation, and sheer capital can out-compete anyone - and the consumer at large will go for the best deal.

It's very common, we've seen it with e.g. internet providers here; big international ISP takes over one of the major cable companies here, they invest heavily in marketing and go under the price of competitors - and thanks to billions in investment money they can keep that up for years -, the competitors lose money and customers until eventually the big one takes over. Monopoly, and then they start increasing the price again. 5-10 year plans. Amazon can do the same with businesses. Walmart, Target, etc all took local businesses and the middle class out of business when they landed in towns.
In 2002, the Laszlo Presentation Server compiled XML with embedded JavaScript to swf (Flash) byte code. [A later version also compiled to HTML. Performant cross-browser dynamic HTML was daunting in 2002.]

We considered HTML's “View Source” feature important, so we emulated this by causing the compiler to place a formatted source file in the output asset directory, and to embed a “View Source” popup menu. You could turn this off, and probably would for a deployed app, but the nudge was there.
If I had to go back to Windows phone, I'd use a Lumia 950/XL or an HP Elite x3.

The main things I'd give up would be first party Google apps and neat apps like my D&D companion. I'd be giving up SnapChat, but I rarely use it. Not sure if Bill Gates is big into that one!

Honestly for a professional, a Windows Phone would probably work just fine. But you give up big players in social, most banking apps and a vast library of entertainment. Fortunately for some, you can bank on your computer, and distractions on your phone are not desired.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but this risk has nothing to do with the BSD+patent grant. If Facebook held patents on some React mechanisms, and they published React with pure BSD license, they could sue you at will if you use React.

I have head a theory that the BSD licence has an implicit patent grant. If FB sued you for using a plain BSD licence, you could argue the BSD covers it, if the courts agreed, you'd be fine.

One objection to the BSD+Patents licence is that it sorta removed the ambiguity, and explicilty implies the BSD has no patent aspects.
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I'm not sure that gp is criticising people for that.
Is there a term for that, similar to "security by obscurity"?
Bad example. People usually drill wells because there isn't a municipal source available. Municipal water is not a luxury good that you pay a premium for. Indeed, wells are likely to end up higher cost because of drilling, failures, etc.

Better example is drinking bottled water rather than tap water. Which many people do but is IMO a total waste of money. To say nothing of environmentally wasteful.
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> And they've already had multiple generations to assimilate.

And choose not to. They understand perfectly well what our culture has to offer, and want no part in it. Get it?
I'm sure you'll find it harder to get help for a project than you would with open source, spend far longer on every project than you would by merely using an existing framework or end up at the whims at a large corporation with no interest in letting you make your own modifications to the code.

If you're employed, why would you care? You're getting paid the same, the extra time is your employer's problem.
You can do this on Github with custom hooks etc. But yes.
That's only true if you believe focusing things with " substantive effect on consumer response" is the right thing to do. It sounds like a good heuristic in theory, but the practice clearly shows that we ought to be able to do better than that.

I mean, if only fraction of the effort that goes towards making things shiny and sexy went towards making them efficient and actually useful, the computing world would be better, for no loss in actual capabilities (and likely great gains).
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3807

> Why did we move away from RubyMotion? Quite honestly: we needed to buckle down and learn the platform as a team.

Doesn't sound like there was any real abandonment as much as "We should use the tools the platform supplies".
Why is 10 past 10 the default setting for clocks and watches in advertisement?
That's a specifically auto-immune issue, which has more to do with growing up in a mostly-sterile environment than with the loss of any ancient medical knowledge.
Yes, this thread is a fucking embarrassment.
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Svelte author here. If you're using a bundler integration like rollup-plugin-svelte or svelte-loader (for webpack), those repeating lines of code are deduplicated across components. There's a bare minimum of repetition, and we're in the process of reducing it further. You'd be surprised at just how well it scales!

Browser inconsistencies are much less of an issue than they used to be. There are only a couple of places (e.g. listening for both 'input' and 'change' events on <input type='range'>, to satisfy IE and everyone else) where we need to accommodate differences.
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We were already nerds for a few decades before the browser was invented.
Ah, cheap shit, programmed terribly. There should be legislation saying anything you plug permanently to your internet connection should be secure, and anyone caught being part of a botnet because they're using a known "bad" hardware will be fined. And just add to this blacklist "anything made by DLink". That will get them to fix their shit.
Looks like there's a brand new article, behind a Caixin paywall. Does anyone here have access to it? http://www.caixinglobal.com/2017-09-11/101143673.html
A quote from D-Link's site, linked from one of the author's posts: "Security is of the utmost importance to D-Link across all product lines."

These sorts of organisations certainly have chutzpah.
It's not just some characteristics that are unsettled. The same people braying about the legal risks of relying on an explicit but revocable patent license should be even more wary of anything implicit or assumed. Any lawyer pretending otherwise in a professional context would be flirting with malpractice.
Some of these concerns were already mentioned in HN when Svelte itself got discussed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13069841), and the suggested solutions for problem #2 were (kudos to user callumlocke):

- Bundling and gzipping several Svelte components together might compress well – a lot of their size comes from repetitive substrings like `.parentNode.removeChild` and `.setAttribute` etc.

- Once downloaded, the Svelte approach would probably be faster than React (at both rendering and updating) and would use less memory (no virtual DOM, no diffing, just fast granular updates).

- The self-contained nature of Svelte components makes it easier to treat them as atomic downloads and use them as needed. For example, you could get to a working UI extremely fast, and then download more components for below-the-fold or other pages in the background. This could work well with HTTP/2.
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> where the edges are constantly scraped by paddles.

I bought an ice cream machine that does exactly this, but to be honest the ice cream I can make at home tastes roughly the same as the ice cream I can buy in the store (not frozen dessert!).

But as a bonus I get to pick the flavor myself. Yay for coffee flavored ice cream.
I did that. My income's really closely tracked the labor share of the economy: follows all the dips and swerves and stuff. You cannot build an entrepreneurial business without a customer base.
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Did you reply to me?

Quick practice doesn't explain anything, it just throws you into the flashcard sequence.

Looking at the strategies, is the differentiator of this app that it lets you hear words slowly and "per word"?

Is there a way to say the word before the sound speaks it? Hearing the word seems to defeat the purpose, shouldn't you be saying it first so that you can evaluate if you were right or wrong?
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What does the internet not do out of the box (think EMAIL, DNS, HTTPS) that is perhaps should do?

I'll chime in with one feature I think is missing to kick this off:

- Distributed Search (Basically, Google in open web standards)
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Except it's really easy to accidentally destroy or lose a phone. That's the reason I don't buy expensive phones anymore, because I'll probably just drop it.
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Because for many consumers, 40MB where it could be 4MB means e.g. 5 minutes of download instead of 30 seconds, or 4% of their data plan instead of 0.4%.

And waste is kind of like honesty - if you are wasteful with this, you're probably wasteful with everything else. Like with storage usage, which is a hard constraint on anything but top-of-the-line mobile phones. Like with network usage. Like with energy usage, which accumulates over everyone making wasteful software and adds up into lots of unnecessary emissions.

As a consumer, I don't care about who is first to the market. Take extra time to make your application not suck. It doesn't take that much more.
A community can still be formed amongst your customers, and make your product better. Game mods are a good example.
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indeed; for those who may not be familiar, see 'behavioral economics' [0] for the ways that known quirks in human reasoning can be used to game consumers. don't buy a house without learning about it.

there are two great books I recommend for those interested: predictably irrational [1] and the upside of irrationality [2]. personally, I think the first is better than the second as a layman's introduction to it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expand...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Upside-Irrationality-Unexpected-Benef...
The Pull Request Hack | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357417 (March 2013)

http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html

> Whenever somebody sends you a pull request, give them commit access to your project.

I agree with requiring more accountability before granting the ability to create official releases.
My main reference is what I was taught in an animal behavior course several years ago at university. There are some interesting books on this subject on my reading list, but I haven't yet gotten to them.
Here in germany, mostly due to tech that allows speed-bump avoidcance, most villages and citys use a sort of slalom that by virtue of physics enforces a speed limit.

Also beloved are narrowings to one lane, where you can not see until you are really close up, wethere somebody from the other side is entering the lane.
Hmm.. I would have thought there are apps on that iPad that can play MP3s. There is the Apple "Music" app and Spotify on it. But maybe they can't.

Looking around the App Store, the apps that play MP3s look rather shady. Anything trustworthy out there to play MP3s?

Anyhow, I downloaded one of the apps that can play MP3s. Still, Safari does not offer any way to save them or push them to that app.
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> That's only true if you believe focusing things with " substantive effect on consumer response" is the right thing to do.

I like eating. Which means I like getting paid. Which means the companies I work for have to focus on things like "substantive effect on consumer response" to keep getting money to pay me.
This will be a big thing. We could give people an allowance of a certain amount of land that is tax-free (as we have in the UK for income).

In the longer term, government could also be self-sufficient. This might be unstable though, it might be better for there to be a contribution of materials/energy/information to the the government from self-sufficient communities. The government would still provide the value of protection/arbitration to the self-sufficient communities.
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'm using a cheap, Chinese Android phone for 2 weeks every other year to bridge the gap between selling my iPhone and getting the new one. I have to say: cheapy Android phones are getting better. Sure, they're nowhere near the quality and experience of iPhones, but my Doogee Shoot 2 ($54,-) performs pretty decently and actually shoots some nice photos in daylight. I won't be converting anytime soon (show me an Android phone that performs like new after 2 years of everyday usage, without lagging) but it does make me wonder sometimes that the price difference can't really be justified...
it's a Spanish website, presumably an invention from a Spanish company. I wonder if a Norwegian customer said "What about snow?" and all the engineers thought "Oh...".
It amaze me how usually most schools for children don't have a class called "Logic 101" or something like, where we can teach people about Confirmation bias and that "Correlation != Causation".

God knows how many BS like this we could save if only people treated stereotypes as such, simple narratives easier to understand when we tell in stories, but aren't truth when applied to individuals in the real complex life we are.
> Though untested

That phrase alone should swing the "legal risk" argument the other way that how it's being portrayed here.
I had to upgrade my phone because it ran out of internal memory and I had to keep removing apps I valued, as they all grew in size.

So bloat cost me real money.

Just because you don't care doesn't mean others don't. This is one of my pet peeves. Developers building things on high spec machines with fantastic network connections. Your website is impossible for others to use as it is so slow and cumbersome but the devs never notice.
Can't you buy an insurance for that?

Or search for "military grade phone cover".
Are you saying there are no flagship android phones or the flagship phones get longer official support? In the past I don't think the Samsung Galaxies got more than 2 years support. And they weren't exactly cheap.

So why buy the expensive Android phone when the low cost ones are really good for that price point and you can just buy another one with the money you save?
I'm not a huge wine drinker and what I buy is usually on the relatively inexpensive side--though not lowest end. Now and then I have splurged for a premium wine tasting (maybe $50-100 bottles at retail). I do appreciate the difference--slightly. I'd also rather spend that money on a nice bottle of whiskey and stick with ~$10-15/bottle wine:-)
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