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> I blame people who care more about illegal immigrants than the disenfranchised citizens suffering in poverty in the US.

Would you like to blame me?

But, from my perspective, I heard very little Trump say that would affect illegal immigration (his only proposal for that was to build a wall), but I heard lots of things that sounded like heavy bigotry to me. He wanted to ban muslims, ban refugees from the very places where the US instigates wars, and generally said a lot of vile stuff.

I may have taken it all a little too personally. Trump literally advocated for banning my future wife from the US. I'm too old for DACA, but when I tried to get a passport I discovered I didn't have paperwork to get a passport. Recent changes in laws mean our families literally can't visit each other, and we are discussing what to do.

On the other hand, I imagine some people would like their mother-in-law banned from the country. It would at least make a good joke for someone.
I am excited for the phone but I don't get having matrix as the messaging app. I don't see the value in matrix. Encryption is not on by default, which is unacceptable in a modern messaging app. It leaks metadata like a seive. None of my friends or co-workers on it. It isn't decentralized enough.

They should just use briar. It hides metadata, it's encrypted, it's peer to peer. It's biggest downsides are no file transfer, no iOS client, no offline messaging.

Or better yet someone should develop an app based on one of the newer concepts like vuvuzela/alpenhorn or loopix.
I "bought" mine. I'm not sure what their probability of success is, but if it's around 30% or so I'm fine with that. The world needs a viable alternative to the big 2 mobile OSs, and even if the market share is tiny the difference between having an alternative and not is huge.

I've been an iOS developer for years and made a comfortable living, but it bothers me on a deep and fundamental level that my primary communication and computing device is controlled by someone else, and the software I'm allowed to run and allowed to distribute is entirely decided by them. I'm willing to risk money if it helps our chances of having an alternative.
> New money doesn’t respect the culture, rituals, and hierarchy created by the old guard.

Can you expand on why this is a problem?
Look I don't want to beat a dead horse, but Microsoft has no one else to blame but themselves. The launch version was a great early adopter MVP and moved the entire mobile industry to a content first paradigm (flat UI). However, they never tried to catch up in the feature department. Instead they focused on all the wrong things, like porting to NT kernel and building an OS that could support limited memory.

So during all of those years, developers were left with those same C# MVP APIs that didn't support all the various things 3rd party companies needed. It required hiring a specialist C# engineer and spending extra time to fill in the gaps left behind. No company was going to do that with a phone barely at 10% of the market.

Microsoft should have ruthlessly focused on getting feature parity with iPhone and Android, and released updates every month. Showed the world they were serious about being a 1st-tier dominant player.

Instead, they felt lazy and slow. I think there was 18 months between one release to the next without a peep from them. That's no way to instill confidence that they were competent at their job.
I tried learning backend over the summer and it confused the shit out of me. If you're a beginner I suggest you check out https://www.turbo360.co since that's what I've been using to start. The guy who runs it posts a lot of tutorials on how to make sites with complicated backends, so learn that and once you've got the hang of it you can go on the more complicated programming
They already had to do it once, from micrometers to nanometers.
You're basically specifiying PKI, not anything to do with Blockchain.

If you truly want the timestamps to "lock in" the time of a transaction without trusting either party, a hash-commitment could be used, akin to https://opentimestamps.org/.
"The choice to buy such device" seems to be the hard part for every previous attempt at an open source OS. Almost all of them have been "buy a Nexus/OnePlus/etc. and flash it yourself" or have had limited models that are nearly impossible to get a hold of.

In my case, the problem actually doubles, because I'm on Verizon. Verizon IS required to support any compatible device, but few niche developers are willing to submit their devices for certification. :/ I suspect there would be a significant value if someone could get a free software-based module submitted to https://opendevelopment.verizonwireless.com/design-and-build...
Disabling JS makes the web fantastic.
I don't mean to be too hyperbolic but...

You know that saying about The Cloud? "It's just someone else's computer"?

Well, it's not your computer. It's Microsoft's computer, and they are going to do with it as they please. It's not your computer anymore. That's what happens when the cloud comes to your desktop. It's someone else's computer.
Tokyo is 30% of Japan's population..
Similarly, I'd imagine a LIDAR sensor built for a Cruise car to be $30 wholesale, $40 if you buy the exact same thing as an aftermarket replacement part, and $150 if you buy a standalone LIDAR sensor with the parts you need to actually use it.

Because a replacement Nexus 7 screen isn't going to natively interface with my Raspberry Pi, and neither will a Cruise LIDAR sensor. A $30 part that needs a $20 interface isn't any better than a $50 part that includes the interface.
Nope.

We're a mid-size SaaS app and not a single person from MS made any sort of overture to us apart from "you should develop for Windows Phone!". It would have cost us like 100-200k and 9-12 months of developer time to do this. And then again for 10. And provide support for the rest of time. Nope!

We laughed at them in the background and awaited its eventual death. That we didn't put a single second of effort into developing for this platform has finally been vindicated! :)

Forcing devs to rewrite stuff every major release made it pretty clear no one there cared about developers.
Have you also checked their Privacy Policy to see if this is an outright violation?

(I do the exact same strategy, BTW).
Le Tote Is Hiring Elixir/Phoenix Software Engineers
Right? This site is turning into a wasteland. I'm fine just switching to lobste.rs entirely if the folks running things can't get their act together.

Wait, what does that flagged message on OP mean? All he said was that this post is clearly an ad.
When we've looked at BigQuery it seemed that if you prepay you essentially get a similar effect to what you're describing. You're given a certain number of "units" of compute, and if you exceeded your concurrent units available you end up with the same compute resource contention you would with an improperly scaled Snowflake warehouse or Redshift cluster.

If you're willing to just pay per gigabyte scanned with BigQuery you can scale near linearly I'm sure (although I haven't actually tried it), but you could accomplish the same thing using Snowflake's API to add warehouses as concurrent query load increases. That's what we do (although we just pre-allocate and suspend the warehouses because you only pay when they're on).

Redshift does suffer from this problem because the compute is tied to the data, but Redshift Spectrum is attempting to rectify that as well. I don't know anything about its performance though.
Cool site and congrats to this team! Love the idea and the execution.
App version of r/AskMen and r/AskWomen?
It sort of reminds me of gonzo-style journalism. I took a look at their other articles, well some of them, and like their style. I'm not sure if it would appeal to a larger audience, but I liked it.
Seen it on Safari as well.
Sara Chipps (Jewelbots) | Navigating the Hardware World with Software Experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HKzQ00MZMs (Jun 2016)
I usually have one to two cups a day, sometimes three. The latest I usually have a coffee is around four in the afternoon unless I’m drinking socially.

I’ll also drink tea a few times a week.

Never drink instant. I grind my beans on demand and usually brew with an aeropress if I’m making one, or the appropriate sized moka pot for making several. (I also have a couple of coffee syphons, which are fun to watch, but too fiddly and too much cleanup for everyday use.)

I had a gastric bypass 1.5 years ago[1], which has made my ‘stomach’ a little more delicate. Some days everything is fine, other days it’ll sit a bit heavy or sour in the tummy. I’m also definitely sensitive to dairy now, and find lactose free milk more tolerable. Have switched from a cappuccino to a long black with just a squirt of cold milk when buying at the shop.

I want to try Death Wish Coffee[2] sometime just for a lark, but the cost of shipping to the Antipodes is ridiculous.

I’m also a big fan of Mr Black[3].

[1] https://www.michevan.id.au/content/adventures-in-bariatric-s...

[2] https://www.deathwishcoffee.com/

[3] http://mrblack.co/ and https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_778190/mr-black-col...
Ultimately though it comes down to how much effort Apple is willing to put to get things right - doesn't look like that's much in case of macOS.
I enjoyed reading this. It felt like a single perspective in a pulp security thriller. It would be interesting for someone to write fiction from the perspective of a potential attacker.
Because the math is freaking cool? :)
Great comment. I think there is a too-literal approach in relating game worlds to the real world, when pretty much no one actually believes that. Instead, we realize at a very young age the differences between playing and real actions. Playing lets us explore feelings of power and powerlessness in a safe way, whether it's playing GTA, Cops & Robbers or Chutes & Ladders.

Even puppies understand play vs. reality because it is so fundamental. I don't know how anyone can buy the concept that mashing the A button on a controller is going to turn you into a murderer or reveal your truest self.
Yeah, try again in a few weeks. Once the mails reach a certain age they lose attachments. Microsoft's recommended fix is to move the mails to another folder which will make the attachments reappear
> people's behavior reveals their preferences

Only if they are rational economic actors.

If you live in the sticks and want to buy food which is several kilometers away, do you throw up your hands in the air and starve so that you don't use your car?
I hope it works better than the blackphone. I could barely use it for a year before the basic functionalities like battery life were impractacle.
Aha thanks, it was the shuttle that had the 4-way redundancy thing! I got scared of my memory, not being able to find verification quickly online, so instead wrote something less true!
it's ok. Generally if you post a sketchy scientific statement, say, something by an advocate of homeopathy, a common retort will be, "it's not in a peer-reviewed journal". Of course in the vast majority of cases not being in a "peer-reviewed journal" is a sign that the work is shoddy, but those it comes at the expense of elevating the converse statement - that something in a "peer-reviewed journal" is necessarily of good scientific workmanship.

There is a weak connection between being in a "peer-reviewed journal", having undergone sufficient peer review (in the classical sense), and possibly the irony is that the connection is has a negative correlation with profile at the high end. (it's probably positively correlated at the low end).
I actually like the idea that the gadget is positioned for "women in tech" without being about "women in tech". Last thing we need is another one of those panels, in lieu of what the individuals actually built or did.
homemade cold brew only
Except diaries and letters are Considered some of the best and most useful artifacts, as they give an insight into the on the ground thinking, and minute details of life in the past.
Shares give you a cut of the profits.

> That person is getting exorbitantly rich far out of proportion both to the effort you put in and to the risk they took in bringing you on.

Investors are always looking everywhere for deals like that, which means in reality they are pretty rare.

If you believe you are unfairly compensated for your efforts, you can:

1. quit and get a better deal elsewhere

2. negotiate for a better deal

3. borrow money from a bank/friends/relatives and exploit the opportunity yourself

4. join a workers' collective/cooperative/commune

All those are perfectly legal and possible in the US, and people do it all the time.
no, I meant, get away with not working at all.
> What can browser developers even do about this, block all requests by default (therefore making it a feature almost no one uses)? Chrome doesn't even have a setting to block all requests.

Missing the point. This is actually a useful feature, and is part of the big service workers push. The fact that some sites are using it poorly (to say the least), is on the sites themselves. As it has already been pointed out, you _can_ disable them on a per-site basis, and at least on Safari, the same site won't ask again if you said no once (Preferences > Websites > Notifications).
... because at some point they were not supervised by at least two persons, before it was taken into operation, that is. (Afterwards, they have to be locked into a rack that requires two different badges to open it's doors and which must have a CCTV system recording it at all times.)
The idea by itself is pretty great, however I think the site could do better at conveying what a Jewelbot can do. Apparently it has lights and vibration and it can communicate wirelessly- what else? Would it be possible to use it as a smart token / have it interact with other gadgets? Also, would you consider designing a version with a little embedded LCD screen to go with the programmable LEDs?
Microsoft used to only make money selling software licenses. This has changed with Azure cloud stuff, but the majority of their incentives still don't align with their developer/customers.
Unfortunately not. I tried again several times over the course of multiple days (including today) with no success.
It exists as a buzzword. Nothing about the TSMC 7nm node means actual 7nm gate widths. It will still only be about as good as what Intel is calling 14nm++.

The simple reality is that all these fab companies have some recent fab tech, that will be roughly the same across all of them, with the exception of Intel usually being slightly ahead of the rest. The names they give them are pointless now, though.

Since the nm doesn't really matter to consumers outside purchasing individual hardware components themselves, just getting the newest parts is all you can really care about. You look at the performance, power draw, and cost and make a judgement from there, and things like "Intel 14nm vs TSMC 7nm vs GF Finfat 10nm or Samsungs whatever" are meaningless marketing drivel.
the fun ones were the 54x hardware that would explode the disks!
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http://coinmarketcap.com + researching the team and tech
Design is highly subjective, but from the designer's eye, there is no comparison between the two sites.
I wouldn't paint so broad a brush with your "only path" argument; I've never listed my salaries, and have always negotiated my own (even when connected to jobs via a recruiter).

Then again, I'm fortunate to have highly sought skills and years of experience, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that's the only way to get fair pay.

Edit: I should point out that I'm not making anything to brag about by silicon valley standards, but I also live somewhere with much, much lower cost of living and salaries in general, and make the high end of what's common out here.
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I hear you. If you think of it as a way to appeal to feminine girls instead of all girls, it makes more sense. I know gender neutral coding toys already exist, but I think there's room (and a place) for super feminine ones too!
Whenever I have to buy a kid a present, I try to aim for the fun yet educational toys, regardless of which gender its marketed to, but not everyone does that.

I know people who will buy a random pink toy from the girls' toy aisle if they need a present for a girl, regardless what it is. Its pink, so it must be appropriate for a girl. The present giver feels like they did their job.

I think the mere existence of feminine coding toys will increase the chances of girls ending up with any sort of coding toy, which is the goal, right?
Politicians will always find a way to promise changes to big ticket items. They're the ones that hold the purse strings. You can't plan for whomever is going to be in office next year ("a week is a long time in politics").

Case in point: it was only 17 months from Trump announcing his candidacy to winning the election - plus his party put up over 20 nominees.
Previous discussion on windows phone's death - "Who Killed Windows Phone?" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835372

Notably @saurik's comment on google's relationship on windows phone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835776

It's interesting considering the competing platform influence as today we're seeing headlines of the amazon echo show getting discounted after the youtube support got pulled: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/9/16448280/a...

My first memory of windows phone was running wp7 on an htc hd2. At the time it was curiously interesting since I was writing code with WPF. In the beginning were definately some interesting aspects on paper - the legitimized 'jailbreak' mode, decent multi-tasking for it's time, writing apps with visual studio/c# (which felt much better than xcode at the time, and had a community defining many of the initial reactive/mvvm work used in many places today). But watching friends purchase Lumias that didn't get updates for wp8 months later showed just how much has to be done on a support front, especially for a new platform.
Flat UI is not "flat", please read up on the topic.
Wanted to post the same. Note that this project used an own client, instead of scraping the webinterface. Which is by far superior, because you don't need an active charged phone and can scale much better. yowsup is still around and working.
A good punt would be to not build a phone?
I think you mean 'decreases'
If you read "death and life of great American cities", Jane Jacobs touches on this quite a bit. Urban centers do offer a lot to children growing up. It offers freedom and unstructured play time, which is important. kids are able to explore easily in an urban environment, if it is walkable, and safe. Safety comes from mixed use urban planning that adds many eyes and feet on the street that keep areas safe and welcoming. This also benefits children since even if they come across a Bully, there are multiple escape paths, and a plethora of adults to around to step in. Large open spaces lead to fewer adults around during unstructured play. Children need both unstructured and structured time.
Whatsapp doesn't have a read receipt either. Just because the message was displayed, doesn't mean it was read.
Similarly, the cost of Seattle's tunnel was greatly inflated by the little mistake that halted Bertha.
I think that's underplaying Windows Mobile a little bit. Did Blackberry or Palm do any better? All of them came out around the same time and shared roughly the same success. Yes the smartphone market was far smaller, but technology was far inferior compared to the Android/iOS era. It's like wondering why the home PC market was so small before the Windows era began: technology hadn't caught up yet. That doesn't mean you should discount DOS, Amiga, Atari, Commodore, or early Apple efforts. They were successful in their own right, and without them we wouldn't have modern PCs. Likewise without Blackberry, Palm/Handspring Treo, and Windows Mobile, we would never have had the iPhone.

It's also worth remember the Apple Newton if you ever start to question the mobile technology decisions of Microsoft or wonder how Apple would have fared if they chose to compete then. They tried. They failed.
But no 3rd party apps. That was an after thought.
True. That's what speedtests are for. Ideally you have your own server, so that you can factor out at least one third party.
IP Accounting and Access Lists with Systemd
IMHO it's fun to think about the economics of autonomous vehicles. For example, here's a neat article on "second order effects" of electric and autonomous cars [1]. (examples: Increased use of autonomous cars could mean less space lost to parking lots in cities. Higher utilization for cars could mean faster turnover (~3 years/car instead of ~10).)

One thing to think about: autonomous cars might make a big difference for car-sharing services or trucking, but they're less essential when you're driving the car yourself and parking in your garage. I think traditional cars will be around for a while. (Particularly in lower-density areas where there's less demand for ride-sharing services.) This article [2] suggests regular cars may be around until 2050 or so:

"According to IHS, a firm that provides automotive forecasts and insights, sales of autonomous cars, including driver control, will begin
by 2025 and could reach 11.8 million in 2035; sometime after 2050, says IHS, almost all vehicles will be
autonomous."

So your hobby is probably good for another 30 years at least?

[1] http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/3/20/cars-and-second...

[2] http://senseable.mit.edu/papers/pdf/20150803_Claudel_Ratti_F...
Why does it have to be useless nonsense? It's about thinking about your work differently, and learning to tell the story of your career in a quantifiable way, rather than just qualitative.

Turns out the bean counters care about beans.
I don't know how they handle infrastructure, but whatever they do seems like something the rest of the world could learn from. A little while ago it made international news when they fixed a sink hole in a few days: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/15/asia/fukuoka-sinkhole-fill...
To be fair, the non-lte watch can work as a shuffle, you can store music on it -- and this is in fact where I'm thinking to land. The point was streaming using lte.
> they focused on all the wrong things, like porting to NT kernel and building an OS that could support limited memory.

I think it’s easy for us to focus on software but I don’t think any of that mattered compared to failing so badly on the hardware side. Over that period, how many weeks were there where they had phone hardware which was competitive with Android, much less iOS? It seemed like every time I saw it mentioned the cycle was “<software feature> looks cool but the phone specs are like my old phone”.
I'm guessing you didn't use MySQL in the late 90's or early 2000's? It was basically the Mongo of its day, before InnoDB and strict SQL mode..
Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought the whole point of putting validation and constraint capabilities into RDBMSs was because it was more efficient to do so, and that this has been pretty well understood for like... eons.

If you didn't want to write SQL and use constraints, then why would you even use a database (over just plain files)? That's what they are designed for. RDBMS developers are probably all sitting around giggling (nihilistically) over experiences with users who think their database is slow on account of their failure to actually use it in the way it was optimized to be used.