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>If Apple actually produced good PCBs and conformally-coated them and capped their JTAGs, water damage and corrosion would be much less likely.

If? In what world they don't, and compared to which alternative?
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it's the minimum a smart entrepreneur should do, I think
It's not. But if you try to flash some incompatible custom rom and end up bricking your device, that isn't the manufacturers fault. Yet you seem to be arguing that they should foot the bill for it.
Yes there is a reason. It is called safety. There is a big difference in making a battery in phone safe to handle and separate stand-alone battery safe to handle. This includes things like puncture resistance, heat dissipation, vibration and shock test. This results in thicker/heavier housings for the replaceable batteries.

"Safe to handle" here does not mean "looks good to me," but tested against mandatory standards.
It's good that the title was changed to the actual article title, but of course my comment makes little sense now.

For the curious, the original submitted title was:

For All Rejected w2018 YC applicants, a sprig of hope

I hope I can learn to poke fun at myself the way the Bessemer folks do! They are in the same league as George W. Bush.

If you want to learn the fine art of self-deprecating humor, read the Bessemer article and then watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4N93jLVPIA
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I have a rooted phone. I used to play Pokemon Go. I loved it. One day, they just decided to lock out all rooted users. Good bye Pokemon Go. There would have been ways to circumvent this (i.e. by unrooting or hiding my root) but it wasn't worth the trouble. It made me sad.
I would be interested on that, btw
What is it that locks them into buying John Deere products? They seem to be mostly NA focused so I assume there are international competitors even if there aren't local ones. Most of the worthwhile patents should be decades old, etc.
Is agriculture really the least digitised industry? At least in Europe and the US, going to a farm these days you'll find robots and machines everywhere.

I would argue construction is probably the least digitised. The Economist had an article recently that construction is the only sector in manufacturing in the UK that declined in productivity over the past two decades. I'm not really in the topic but the construction I see in the city (London) looks not like they adapted any processes developed over the past 1-2 decades. Maybe that's where the next revolution happens.
Yeah, I know. I made that screenshot, signed out, uploaded this file, then logged in to post my previous comment. Thank you for reminding anyway :)
I am just wondering how this dude is feeling right now...
Because in the real world you get your products from said businesses. If your favorite vendors don't like the license, they wont adopt it, period.
Notable Changes

* crypto:

- expose ECDH class

* http2:

- http2 is now exposed by default without the need for a flag

- a new environment varible NODE_NO_HTTP2 has been added to allow userland http2 to be required

- support has been added for generic Duplex streams

* module:

- resolve and instantiate loader pipeline hooks have been added to the ESM lifecycle

* zlib:

- CVE-2017-14919 - In zlib v1.2.9, a change was made that causes an error to be raised when a raw deflate stream is initialized with windowBits set to 8. On some versions this crashes Node and you cannot recover from it, while on some versions it throws an exception. Node.js will now gracefully set windowBits to 9 replicating the legacy behavior to avoid a DOS vector.
Profits can be negative (and often are), that's not the same as revenues being negative.
Thanks for sharing!

If it gives you any sense of hope, I was actually paraphrasing Carmack himself as part of the source of "we already know how". I believe from a Quakecon Keynote (I'm not sure what year unfortunately, the context was PBR and approximations).

The real thing I'm not certain of is do we want to live in a world where we have the ability to create in realtime video content entirely indistinguishable from reality.

The entertainment and simulation benefits would obviously be amazing. The ability to recreate phenomenon we can observe in science but can't see, etc.

But there is also the possibility to weaponize that. Seeing is believing and what do in a future where we can't trust anything we see.

Part of me is glad we don't have to ask ourselves these questions yet.
I am not German, but thanks for writing that. Demonizing people is unfortunately the norm, making a well balanced judgment is very rare. Many, many thanks for your writings here.
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I agree, my mind retained the blue colored icon as vscode so couldnt find it even though it was in front of me.
It doesn't. People don't crave from slimmer, slicker tractors to the point that you can't have repairable components in them.
Maybe then a new game could be related to D&D as Clojure is to Java? Like, built on the D&D runtime?
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A few months later, a parent stopped him on the street with tears in her eyes. “What are you guys doing?” she asked him. Her son was dyslexic and had been role-playing at Brooklyn Strategist for a couple of weeks. Before D. & D., he couldn’t focus on writing for more than a few seconds. Now he was staying up all night to draft stories about his character. “Whatever it is, bottle it and sell it to me,” the mother said.

I mean, product endorsements don't get any stronger than that!
No, but thanks for consistently straw-manning my arguments.

I prefer clear rules that say, "You can unlock your bootloader and flash whatever you want to the device, but if you do we aren't going to fix your screw-up"

If it's a hardware defect that has nothing to do with flashing software, that's a different story. But the libertarian perspective (which is what was asked for) is that it's between you and the company. If it's not a mutually beneficial exchange of goods (money for a product) then it shouldn't take place. If you don't like the rules, you should buy from a different manufacturer.
what other services would you guys consider to use instead? Just curiosity!
>>Excel users usually lack functionality and tend to build an unmaintainable mess in their spreadsheets

Excel needs to be viewed as a programming tool. And a good programming tool is something that gives as much control to the user.

There are many Excel tutorials online and on Youtube that try to teach you how you can do MVC with Excel. That is separate presentation from data, and its control.
> there are good reasons not to use a wildcard.

Such as?
Then perhaps there wouldn't be a different Number Two every week.

/ThePrisoner
>Is anyone actually crying out for thinner devices? Or do we just keep getting them foist upon us as the result of some pointless thin-ness arms race manufacturers have gotten themselves into.

Yes, they are. There have always been bulkier alternatives for every device on offer (smartphones, laptops etc) -- the thinner ones sell better. Not to mention whole categories where being small and thin is part of their main purpose (ultrabooks, wearables).

And here's a certain Linus Torvalds:

I’m have to admit being a bit baffled by how nobody else seems to
have done what Apple did with the Macbook Air – even several years
after the first release, the other notebook vendors continue to push
those ugly and *clunky* things. Yes, there are vendors that have
tried to emulate it, but usually pretty badly.

I don’t think I’m unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and
light.

(...) I’m personally just hoping that I’m ahead of the curve in my
strict requirement for “small and silent”. (...) A notebook that
weighs more than a kilo is simply not a good thing.
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What about the right to repair our software?

Running a electronics engineering house here and we can easily see 9:1 ratio of software:hardware people-time ratio in bringing a device to the market. Varies heavily from project to project, but solutions in SW tend to scale better.
Where do you think I said anything like that?
Well, the Greeks had a grand old time borrowing against the Euro when people were still willing to lend to them.

When the piper came due, they couldn't raise interest rates or devalue their own currency to deal with the situation.

Point is, it's not a colony situation. For a while, Greeks loved the fact they could borrow against the EU with low interest rates, much lower than their own financial situation would indicate. Once people started wanting their money back, yes, this limited their options. They probably shouldn't have put their own economy into that situation though, that's why the drachma used to fluctuate up and down so much and the interest rate was high, because they weren't really good for the money they borrowed.
Thanks. I've not read or played Chuubo, but my 1ed Nobilis is a prize possession! A wonderful achievement, and seminal, at least for my journey in the hobby. Though I'm tempted to say mechanically now it does feel a little tired (or perhaps my memory is biased, it's been quite a few years since I played it).

James Wallace (of Hogshead as was, who published Nobilis, and other really groundbreaking games like De Profundis, and his own Adventures of Baron Munchausen) has been slow-motion (i.e. mostly failing at) releasing an interesting game "Alas Vegas" via kickstarter for a few years now. Given the esteem he was held in at one point, it's a shame to see so many folks who felt burned by the kickstarter. His publishing decisions definitely helped get the hobby where it is today. Nobilis being a particularly good example.
Yes this has been pretty much the trend of society over the last 40 years. The focus on career and work ebbs and flows in American society rising with the tides
of individualism and ebbing when community and service come back into fold. We might be, or soon will be, at “peak career”. Same thing with being entrepreneur, at various times it’s been denigrated as well as lauded.

Pretty disgusting though that career has even trumped things like citizenship. Pretty soon we’ll see things like “if your parents aren’t willing to sell both of their kidneys to fund your MBA...”
What’s Labit?

- Laboratory pages for research groups.

Why Labit?

- We want to bring research groups closer to each other, give them opportunity to establish connections and simplify collaboration.

How Labit works?

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJClMIWOh-M

As it is with many ventures, Labit started out of frustration. We are a team of 4 people (2 researchers and 2 software engineers). We were frustrated that laboratories and research groups around the world were working in a relative isolation. Their webpages are outdated, unorganized, scattered on the Internet, and in many cases broken. This realization sparked a discussion that led to creation of Labit.

Any questions and feedback are welcome. Thanks!
Equifax knew they were running a vulnerable version of Apache tomcat. To not fix it is pure incompetence, like a bank leaving it's doors unlocked overnight. What did they expect to happen?
Lucky you! Cox for $100 gives you on average less than 100Mbps downstream and 10Mbps upstream.
>the algo courses were very theoretical and they expected us to get comfortable with the code on our own time. In fact they are all about teaching CS and not about teaching you how to get a job or trendy technologies.

This was very much my experience as well. A couple classes had "make your own final project!" things that usually encouraged front-end like an app or a website. I bombed those pretty hard because I had no idea what I was doing.

Most of my classes only touched code occasionally for a homework. Everything else was either math, short answer, or running algorithms by hand.

I don't know how all this compares to other schools, but it could be a massive advantage in interviews. Most interviews are asking you to come up with an algorithm and implement it. I can't tell you how many interviews have come down to the "linked list indexed by a dictionary" data structure that I had to figure out for my first CS midterm. Nobody asks about logging stacks or Oauth2 or caching in new-grad interviews.
lol that’s what H1-B visas are for...
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> It's incredibly sad that control theorists spent so much time working out analytic solutions to dynamical systems, only to be so thoroughly beaten by Reinforcement Learning.

I couldn't disagree more. It's incredibly amazing that control theorists spent so much time working on analytic solutions to dynamical systems, so much so that they're ubiquitous and modern technologies depend on them.
Almost everybody using one? At least in Europe are third party stores that replace iPhone batteries (and repair other such damages) all around the towns.
google doesn't hate open, they give us a lot of quality free / open source software. being who they are, they also make proprietary products. I'd take a world with google's contributions to foss than one without.
The strength of SA isn't their public content, it's the community and the forum. But if you do want their public content, I find that the main important output is LPs.
Ok, we'll merge this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15547631.
What's wrong with pure CSV, again?
How many g5 batteries exploded on their owners with third party batteries, most of which are crappy?

It's easy to make anything if you have lax enough standards.
If there were no 6, Little Man would stay 5 1/2 forever and keep asking childish questions!
> It's a shame that none of the policy suggestions for something like this would leave Apple's Activation Lock unscathed.

How so? Maybe I'm misunderstanding but Activation Lock is tied to the Logic Board as far as I know. You wouldn't replace individual parts on your Logic Board. Everything else can be perfectly replaced without interfering in todays' iPhones. Even the Touch ID Sensor.
Some guy I used to go fishing with once told me that startups are like fishing. He said, you know, the traditional line & hook type of fishing. Not the trawler, dredging type of fishing. It's a game of luck mostly. No one really knows where the fish are at any given time. But make sure to only ever fish in a pond in which others have been catching fish. Put your line in and wait. And while you wait make sure you don't starve to death.

Also, while you wait, make sure to check up on your mom. Get into shape. Enjoy the scenery.

I have since stopped going fishing with that fucker.
Another concern, which is kind of pathetic, is that you can pay Kirkus for reviews these days, we are talking like as low as $500. In their magazine you will notice many of the reviews are from Amazon CreateSpace or whatever.
>>It seems plausible that cryptic rowcolumns would be a major paint point for most Excel users but maybe it isn't.

Its not cryptic, its the most intuitive way of finding the position of a cell in a spreadsheet.

ABCD
____
1|abcd
2|efgh
3|ijkl
4|mnop
5|qrst
6|uvwx
7|yzAB

It becomes a whole lot easier to give the position of the letter 's', I just have to say C5. Instead of giving a name which the user has to hunt in a large spreadsheet. Its easier to look up things in a sequence, than look at an arbitrary name.

Besides you can always name a cell in Excel and use that in a formula.
> if there was ever a large run on the banks (like in 1929), they could only renumerate small a fraction of insured deposits (at most 2% in 2017)

The FDIC (a) cannot "cram down" [1], (b) has the ability to borrow $500 billion from the U.S. Treasury [2] and (c) is backed by the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. Government [3]. A decision to "renumerate small a fraction [sic] of insured deposits" would be a political call. It's certainly not a "could only" scenario.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram_down

[2] https://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2009/pr09153.html

[3] https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/
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Also, you live in a 3D world, hence any non-cognitively overloading "work surface" has to be -1 dim, so 2D, hence List or ListOfLists (spreadsheet). Anything else will require brainpower you could be using for something else instead! (like solving the actual problem, not masturbating with the tools...)

Other alternatives are Trees, which are also "lists of lists" but without the size constraints (Graphs "look 2D" but easily grow multi-dimensional information-wise). But trees have a big problem: they easily grow bigger than the screen, so you expand/collapse them, so you always end up with hidden information that you can overlook - hence they are really bad for sloppy people (I know it from first hand experience... if I'm not careful I can really forget that whole sections or Wrkflowy trees or Org-mode documents I work with even exits!)

Now combining list & lists-of-lists & trees & formatted text could work, if they manage to not informationally overload the user.

But I'm 99% sure that any tool more complex than matrixes and trees as information shape will not take on wide scale, until we manage to couple it with some superhuman-Clippy AI-assistant that almost reads your mind. We're stupid monkeys and it's only so much our brains can handle...
What bugs me the most is offline use. If you have unreliable network coverage, like I do everyday in the subway, the damn thing tries to connect for every action and then just become unresponsive if the connection fails. You have to activate airplane mode so it'll know not to try to access the network.
Indeed. Just imagine the US uses Post-Its as bank notes.

To blame a foreign nation for printing your money is then not the right action. You'll have to look inwards.
Yes. Take a look at https://github.com/spiffe/spiffe
> Given that anyone is free to take an AP exam provided they can spend $100, it seems to be down to individual choice.

In which world is it "individual choice" for a 14-18 year old to pay $100 per exam to take an exam?
I didn't know excel allowed you to assign names to cells. Nobody taught me so. Of course I'd find it useful if the UI for that feature was easy to reach.

In programming the UI to assign names is very intuitive and right there in your face. You place the name next to the thing you want to have named. Done.
Sadly, this is the way many federal laws come to be. Agencies and Bureaus in the executive branch propose rules(laws) and if congress doesn't specifically vote them down, they become federal statutes.

I'm glad to see congress actually exercising it's oversight instead of letting the executive branch run so much of everything.

But, I wish it hadn't exercised it's oversight on this specific matter.
I think you're over simplifying a bit.

> A country that doesn't control its money doesn't control its economic policy. Is there anything more important than the economy for a country?

http://www.coha.org/examining-the-effects-of-dollarization-o...

The point of the article is that the economy of Ecuador was so bad dollarization caused capital flight to stop, stabilizing the economy.

I'm not an economist, but maybe the short term benefits outweighed the long term restrictions. But it did impose some amount of financial discipline on them that they never exhibited before, and would probably boost the confidence of foreign investors that they could invest and still get money out.

As a counterpoint, Venezuela is not a colony, but their economy is in a shambles, they can't feed their own citizens, but they have ultimate monetary control and can do whatever they want to their economy. That's what got them in this mess in the first place. Some thing as PRK and Cuba.
The Paranoia rulebooks were a joy to read. Comedic masterpieces in themselves.
UberEats drivers who accept delivery of multiple orders, so you wait for everyone else's orders to be cooked and delivered before your cold burger and fries arrive. This problem is exaggerated by either these orders being on opposite sides of the city or…

Unfortunately the Eats drivers (of which I am one) don't have a choice. If the Uber dispatch algorithm determines that we should pick up two orders at the same time, then it gives us instructions to that effect. It also decides which of the two orders to deliver first. We don't even get to see where the second order is going until the first has been dropped off.

And yes, the algorithm is terrible. Sometimes we drop off the first order all the way across town, and the second order turns out to be for a customer a few blocks away from the original pickup location! It's also quite common for a new order coming in result in the driver (who has just arrived at the restaurant to pick up your food) needing to wait an extra 10 minutes while the new order is prepared and cooked.

The end result is customers getting cold food. I'm amazed that Uber Eats has repeat customers.

(And here in New Zealand, the restauarnt pays Uber 35% of the menu price - plus the customer is still paying a delivery fee on top! It's again amazing that any restaurant would even bother with Uber Eats.)
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The problem with android on the whole is that it got good enough, quick enough that it prevented any meaningfully open and consumer friendly alternatives to emerge. Safety net is a part of the play services, which on the whole is opaque and binary. So not much is new there.
> a product which claims a guaranteed rate of return, yet the deposits are invested in securities, loans, other risky investments

Like an exchange-traded note (ETN) [1]? There's nothing inherently fraudulent about asset-liability mismatches. From a certain perspective, that describes every corporate bond issuance.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/etn.asp
There are an impressive number of companies attempting to cash in on the loot-box phenomenon in more and more blatant fashion. That's probably not sustainable in the long term, even apart from the possibility of regulatory gaze turning upon this form of gambling.
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Yet another reason why we shouldn't accept being sold such proprietary garbage. SafetyNet is another attempt at creating a system similar to Treacherous Boot[1] -- similar to what people feared that UEFI's "Secure Boot" would become (luckily we avoided that fate on x86 systems, but all of the Windows RT devices are by definition "Treacherous Boot").

I would personally _love_ if we could get proprietary software to become illegal (or for there to be some sort of disincentive such as taxing proprietary software, or enforcing and extending warranties on proprietary software). But large proprietary software companies hold such sway in politics that hoping for that doesn't really help. It would be a much better idea to simply stop buying their crap, and helping others around you "break the shackles" (as it were). Digital Restrictions Management is something that I always mention when people talk about Netflix or other such streaming services -- because once you explain the issues with those kinds of services I find that most people are at least intrigued by alternatives (which usually have features that the DRM systems don't, because DRM has always been clunky as they're trying to accomplish something that is effectively not possible).

[1]: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/drm.html