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>Jesus Christ, HN and the creators of this (ugly, toy-like)phone seem to never get basic, rudimentary supply and demand in action that anybody running a business should already understand.

>People buy fast, sexy, bleeding edge smartphones with GREAT CAMERAS (not surprised the whole website decided to omit this, it's probably terrible). Companies that make these phones thrive (see: Apple, Samsung, etc. ) while companies that focus on things only a handful of programmers like (for free)wither away into obscurity, see: the Ouya, Firefox OS, opensolaris, etc.

The demand side is high enough. The kickstarter already reached 800k USD which is 50% of their funding goal. Remember they are using off the shelf components that have already benefited from economies of scale. Selling a few thousand units is enough for them to turn a profit. If they tried to compete with high end phones like the essential phone does then their needed budget would instantly increase by two or three orders of magnitude but the demand wouldn't increase by the same amount because there are already successful competitors.

I don't really know why you think everything needs to be the best and "disrupt" everything else to be profitable. It's basic economics.

$600 * x (variable revenue) = $1000000 (estimated fixed costs for R&D) + $200 * x (variable costs for components & assembly)
| - $200 * x

$400 * x = $1000000
| / $400
x (variable revenue) = 2500

So I estimate they only need to sell 2500 units or capture 0.00016% of the market. It might be hard but it's certainly doable.

By the way the phone can be plugged into a monitor and keyboard to act as a full linux desktop. That sounds interesting to me even if it didn't focus on privacy and freedom.
What happens after a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity?
Physical locks just keep honest people honest.

Also, OP says you can't lose your biometrics. You can, it's just painful and you'll not be the least bit happy about it.
This is going to be a great budget phone when it's getting cleared out on various sites for $3-400 early to mid next year. At $700 it just can't compete, especially with a mediocre camera, but once it drops under $500 then it'll be a lot cooler than most of the stuff in that price range.

I tried one out, and it's not a hunk of junk in any way... it just doesn't do anything to wow you at that price besides the screen. And it screams "brand that will push one big update if that then quit making phones"
But you’d have to do it without it seeing people you don’t intend to test with. You only get 5 tries. You can’t wait too long or it will hit the timeout.

Sounds like a movie plot to me (I made a guess at one if you dig through my comment history).
It's certainly a moral issue, but it's not Facebook's moral issue. It's an affordable housing issue that Bay Area cities are failing miserably at.
It's a mix. It's Facebook's problem to suffer, which means people are going to push them to solve it, even if it's a local government problem.
I'm a grad student with LIGO.

Yeah, the rate of intermediate mass black hole mergers was totally unexpected and has caused a bunch of active discussion on formation mechanisms.

In short, intermediate mass black holes are too big to be generated from star collapses, which means they (likely) come from smaller BH mergers. But because these things take so long (GWs radiate energy very slowly until the bodies are very close and fast), we didn't previously expect there to be large populations of them. It has been surprising to see that there are enough of them to sustain a pretty decent IMBH merger rate.
New ghost theme with explanation for recodes.co
> You listed the exact same thing 3 times.

nope, not at all true, and i already covered many of the details over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15350080

> A new entrant to the market that uses this as the defining distinguishing feature isn't going to succeed.

when the iphone came out, the critics said it was nothing new: not the first phone with a touch screen, not the first phone that could play music, not the first phone that allowed you to browse the web, etc. all true. and also, way too expensive. the people at blackberry watched steve jobs' original keynote and declared that it wasn't even possible! and yet the iphone succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams.

there is always a market for doing things that seem to have been done before, but getting the details exactly right, for a certain set of users. i think allowing a whole ecosystem to blossom around a phone, provided by many different companies instead of just apple, done with exactly the right amount of curation, is just such an idea.
This is how you get rich: By exploiting others. Thats why i never want to be rich.
Umm what? Has nothing to do with the pixel. Plus the 2 is coming soon
I think those laws were originally designed for "normal" crime, as what-to-do-with-illict-money is a common problem for anything resembling organized crime.
Maybe I was not very clear. They continue to be employed because of their seniority when the company is doing well. But when shit hits the fan and you have to make difficult decisions about who are absolutely necessary to the working of the company, that's when they are laid off.
By all means, they can slot it in between their three jobs.

Not everyone has the means for political action. Frequently, those who need it most are those least able to participate.
Yup, Microsoft. And the IRS was followed by contractors suing for benefits.
I'm not sure why you think it's about supply and demand. Obviously engineers and managers are going to make more money than low-skilled workers. But this is about perks that are equally offered to all employees - except those who are deemed unworthy of even being an employee and have no potential job ladder toward becoming one.

At companies like Facebook and Google, perks aren't divvied up by how skilled you are. A junior HR worker or accountant gets the same free food as the top engineers. One could hardly argue that they are equally important to the company. The division is between white collar and blue collar workers - the former get all the perks, and the latter get nothing. When you offer the perks to lawyers (an oversupplied profession) without a second thought but withhold them from the technician who fixes stuff at your datacenters in the middle of the night (someone who actually works on your product), it smells more like classism than anything else.
Duplicate, most extensive discussion (3 comments) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15267437
Shield is still the best settop, bar none.
> You assume you we can't say anything informative about his prediction.

OK, can you show me a model that is better? What I'm saying is not dependent on the arbitrariness of subjective "baked-in assumptions", nor that each market observer has a subjective perspective and is not omniscient, nor is it about whether or not you may have the gut feeling that he's trying to scam you into unnecessary doomsday preparation. In stats terms: not about how each of us have different perspectives so KL-divergence > 0.

What I am saying is: all of the people who say "because these past positions never definitely happened yet, we should be more skeptical of his predictions than everyone else saying things will be just fine" are getting it wrong. You should be extremely skeptical of everyone asking you to withhold skepticism as if past observations (samples) prove the distribution is a stationary ergodic process (truly observing the generator).

When someone has predicted things successfully in the past, it means they answered a falsifiable question before it - so there is a burden of proof before you can call them a good predictor. But a prediction that has never been falsified does not demand a burden of proof, you can't say it's incorrect or correct at all - no matter the duration, the question "are his positions wrong?" is meaningless.

I am not privileging his opinion that much, tbh - imo, someone saying "catastrophes in the future will be worse" is a nearly-zero surprisal/maximum entropy statement. What influence could I exert over the outcomes that I depend on of processes far beyond what I can control? None. "just the way she goes, boys."

All I can do is say memento mori, insure myself against catastrophe (when the cost is negligible, so the waste is low if the catastrophe never came), and not dull my senses.. meaning that it is preferable to ignore salesmen reaffirming one another saying "but we've never sold this much before!" over to ignore someone without special insight who you suspect is only fomenting fear irrespective of if they stand to benefit, deceitfully or not, from that fear.

"We can infer Jim Rogers is unlikely to be correct about the future of catastrophes because the last 6 years of recorded performance did not contain a catastrophic event" != "somebody who had said everything is fine 6 years in a row would have been more correct than Jim Rogers over the last 6 years THEREFORE his predictions are less likely to be right", which ignores the point that ).
I just checked the issue, and it seems it was caused by human error. It is closed now.
I'm going to check it out.

As an idea - could you add the ability to import transaction lists (as csv) which have been exported from google finance?

Ok so I have this page up and have a new portfolio - how do I add transactions?
Now there’s a very interesting security measure.
>Will I be able to communicate from my Librem 5 to other phones?

>Yes, you will be able to make regular unencrypted phone calls to any phone number. You will also be able to communicate securely by using the phone dialing application and messaging application, that can run on the Librem 5 phone, Android based phones, and iOS based phones, and any computing device.

The FAQ is at the bottom of the kickstarter.
I think it's useful to look beyond the symptoms of the problem and instead to examine the source: the SF Bay Area's residential zoning is just terrible. It actively works against high density residential housing. It's the main bottleneck for affordable housing.
Motivation seems far from the only difference.

If we divide making into "builds with atoms" and "builds with bits", both sorts of things are generally unregulated. It's when you get into "builds life-critical things with atoms" that you see significant regulation. If you build a house or an office building, your engineering is regulated. If you build a doghouse or an office filing cabinet, it isn't.

I agree that societal accountability for engineers working on life-critical system, software and hardware both, is vital. For most atom-making and bit-making, though, I think stringent professional licensing is overkill. Instead I'd rather we started with accountability for the people who have much more control over the outcomes than individual software engineers: executives and managers.
I'd view this as commentary on the housing situation in Silicon Valley more than commentary on any specific company.

The problem is that, in order for all the tech companies to grow; they need affordable housing for all levels of the staff. This is just as much a government problem as a corporate responsibility problem.
There wouldn't be a place for free and open software without him. I'm absolutely convinced of this -- he is a combination of good will, great programming talent, insane dedication who is not motivated by money.

It's just a shame he'll never be as well known to the general public as someone like Steve Jobs.
> It sounds like fpgaminer's argument is that biometric keys can't be compromised because of "liveness tests".

You're arrested, and the cops hold the phone up to your face to unlock it. That's a pretty big compromise, and there's literally nothing you can do to prevent it.
You can create a derivative work and license that under Apache.
I used to do contracting at another well-known company, filling up coffee hoppers and candy baskets. The work is easy, and arguably not worth much in the way of pay.

The problem is that this is all part-time work, and it is effectively impossible to get full-time work. These companies also tend to be in far-off places that, if you are earning $9/hr part-time, means you are taking a 2 hour bus ride each way.

In theory, outsourcing to contracting is a good deal, as the contracting companies have no real HR issues with hiring and firing. They are also supposed to supply some sort of health insurance, as required by ACA, but this is circumvented by shifting everyone to part-time, putting them on 6 month contracts that roll between canceled and renewed, and so on.

It's a difficult situation for all companies involved. It bothers me that tech is getting the smear for this, when basically every low-wage job has been affected in similar ways.
If you received no response at all from the abuse alias then something is wrong there and I want to fix it.

You’re welcome to email me or link to the tweets or ping me directly on twitter @jrhunt. I personally take it seriously and I will get things taken care of. HN isn’t a great forum to dive deep on individual support though so feel free to take the convo to email or twitter DM.

Randhunt@amazon.com
I want to bring the focus on inequality here to the absurd cost of living in Silicon Valley. There is a world in which contract workers at Facebook making 15 dollars per hour are able to live reasonably close to work and provide for their families while working only 40 hours per week. That future does not exist without a LOT more housing in the south bay, the peninsula, SF, and the rest of the bay area. FB cannot pay the 15% raises yearly that the housing market demands of those at the bottom. If you care about these issues and live in the south bay, please look into volunteering with and/or donating to siliconvalley@home http://siliconvalleyathome.org/. If you live in SF, look into SFYIMBY http://www.sfyimby.org/.
Your First Decentralized Application
Headspace. Just hit my second 30-day run. Easy, life-changing.
It's telling that the main attachment being advertised at launch is a 360 camera, but the phone doesn't support Daydream.
Do those exist?
Yes, if we can't stop shops insisting on details of our sex lifes before selling us a pair of jeans then we need more GDPR and its ilk.

I would not complete the transaction if that data was requested without very good reasons, and have already point-blank refused to take up 'incentives' for superfluous data. Leaves a very bad taste. Can we parade the marketing dept naked on TV, "just so we can send them a gift on their birthday?"
> Mankind has never had a tool as powerful as the internet. The advent of the printing press played a key role in the lead up to the Salem Witch Trials.

Name one person harmed by the site?

If you have ever seen a page of DailyStormer, you'd either laugh or go away.

No one has ever killed anyone after reading a few paragraphs on that site.

Putting in the argument of "Is loss of human life an acceptable cost for free speech" is not an honest way of describing censorship of content that is silly at its worst and dumb at its best.
A right to have your healthcare information stored only offline
In the end, key databases will be hacked and all user information will be exposed either via inside job (Chelsea Manning) or an external bad actor, such as what happened with Equifax.

WHEN a major healthcare database gets hacked, there will be extensive private information disclosed publicly about all of us. You'd be able to type someone's email or phone number to see if they've ever had an abortion, or an STD etc.

Should it not be a right to opt to have your personal medical records not be stored electronically?
GoFly Prize: design and build a personal flying device
> I can make backups with `adb`

does it follow that an attacker can make a "backup" of your 2fa codes as well, if they get ahold of your phone for a minute or two?
Serious Question; Is Google ever going to get out of catch-up mode in this department?
41 Points and no comments? That's a really rare phenomenon around here...
One common scenario where I often have problems with TouchID and FaceID should solve them: wet hands.
It's a new account.
Theres Common Lisp in there! When did that happen?
Alternately, Facebook can take dictatorial control of Menlo Park and address the issue that way. But there may be some potential downsides to this as well, and other voters and activists react rather badly when well-compensated people or their employers mobilize against the policies that drive expensive housing.

It's a losing situation all around. What's left that might be a winning option? Convert contract services into in-house services, (and downside services until the costs are considered acceptable)?
The Free Software Foundation and the GNU project have had an enormous impact on people's lives. We all owe a significant debt of gratitude to the many people who have worked on FSF/Gnu products. Even more significant is the ethos involved. Where would we be today were it not for the free software community.
...probably because Amazon purposefully stopped Amazon Prime Video from working on Chromecast.
I assume scary as in "scar(il)y smart", in the sense that it's (almost) disturbing to see their sophistication and competence.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/338912/how-would...
Infogrames, to be exact. They of Alone in the Dark and... that's the only game I can come up with at the moment.
At steady highway speeds you gain nothing and need to haul extra weight.

The weight penalty isn't as bad as you might imagine. On the Toyotas, the hybrid design replaces the regular transmission, flywheel, and torque converter (if automatic) or clutch (if manual).

So the big weight penalty is mostly the battery pack.
Globalization and encapsulation are different points on a spectrum, and both have benefits and disadvantages. It's all about tradeoffs! :)

I've definitely noted that React devs seem to fall into either a "component-centric" view of the world, or an "app-centric" view. Both are okay.

I'll also point out that the Redux FAQ explicitly says it's up to you as a developer to decide what state should live in Redux, and what is better suited for local component state: http://redux.js.org/docs/faq/OrganizingState.html#organizing... .
I think Apple would argue skipper slope there. We’ve seen what the FBI tried a year or two ago. I have a hard time theybeouldnt try to turn it into a dragnet or ask for ‘special’ phones that could scan people but retain the data in a form the FBI could use.
I'm sorry to inconvenience your day.
If you can't trust all the members of the team, or the person you send the message to, then no amount of encryption will save you.

But this does remove (reduce?) the need to trust that the the 3rd party provider (eg. Slack) is capable of securing your data and is also protecting it from the prying eyes of those you don't choose to trust explicitly.
More specifically, I think those engineers are trained not to care. The have tried caring, experienced unpleasantness from their "superiors", and learned to stop.

But this is reversible. I've done coaching in large-company environments and it's not at all hard to wake developers up, to get them to care again. The hard part is changing the environment so that caring is rewarded, not punished.
I refuse to give it my point. It's too long of a read for a simple message.
The word you're looking for is MACHO (massive compact halo object) and using microlensing observations you can make all kinds of statistical arguments for how likely objects of different masses are to make up the missing matter to match galaxy rotation curves to observations. Basically it doesn't seem likely that there are nearly enough intermediate mass black holes to explain dark matter. Because microlensing is gravitational it doesn't matter what kind of object the MACHO is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_compact_halo_object
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/319636
The total number of characters in an ad is 130(ish).

25 for title
35 for line 1
35 for line 2
35 for display url

130 characters total.
That isn't a reasonable expectation. Morally speaking, companies should be expected to pay market rate for the job and anything above that is charity.
Move to Wellington, New Zealand. You will feel the gravitational waves/shakes every day. ;) This is like a new JS framework release, happening so often, you don't care it anymore. ;)
I would love to see an open source way to do this. Video streaming is kind of the last really crappy thing on the web. Sure you can upload an .mp4 and use a video element, but thats not really streaming. Cloudflare is a great service and I recommend it to clients, but personally I don't want to rely on third parties for my personal projects. I want to support and promote the open web.
Apple has mitigated this, your eyes need to be open and looking at the screen to be unlocked.

It requires your face + your attention.
What you're describing is despotism... not communism. For the love of all that is holy, please learn what communism is!

"...which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money[3][4] and the state"

Absence of social classes, money, and the state. That is the key of the definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
Yeah, I would say Facebook should get involved in policy because it directly affects their employees and their ability to do business. Also there's a homeless encampment across the street, so it wouldn't be out of line to invest a little in the community they are reshaping. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/07/facebook-and-google-are-buil... https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/02/06/exclusiv...
You could convert a singly-linked list to a doubly-linked list in O(n), and then apply your favorite doubly-linked solution.

You could even do this in place without increasing the size of each node at the cost of doubling the size of variables that point to nodes and slightly lowing down stepping through the list. You do this by storing the next and previous pointers for each node in the same location, xor'ed together.

That doubles the size of variables that point to nodes and slows down stepping because you have to turn them into structs that store both a pointer to the node and a pointer to an adjacent node and update both of these pointers as you move through the list.
> And I don't see people complaining about the state of home security...

Home security is a really poor analogy.

* Attacking everybody's house at once is not scalable, unlike attacking many people's electronic devices at once. Furthermore, defending against a SWAT team armed with a search warrant is nigh impossible, no matter what lock you put on your front door.

* The contents of most people's houses is far more weighted to "things which would be a hassle to file with insurance to replace" and less "it would ruin my life if this got into the wrong hands", and their strategy for home defense is weighted as such.

* Many people whose strategy for home defense (well, in the US) is more serious, will weigh more towards weapons / guns and less to the actual locks on the doors. What would a digital equivalent be? A prick of poison for anybody who picks up a phone which doesn't belong to them? The analogy totally breaks down in context.
Except Chromecast, cant really recall what innovative Google did with hardware
I heard in another comment in this thread it has focus detection, so you would have to look at the phone for it to unlock. Can not find any other source of this though.
I was hoping by "smaller Echo" they meant "smaller than the Dot".

Also, Alexa is most useful in a car and I'm still disappointed that there's no apparent way to use Alexa for things like turn-by-turn navigation.
Why isn't gold a pyramid scheme then? It's because people believe it isn't.

1000 years ago it was cotton instead of gold