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They did that using something they call 'powerd' and that's exactly what the current kerfuffle is about.

Unless you're saying all phones should be constrained to only use the power a two-year-old battery can supply?
Prisons need employees. The employees are going to want cell coverage between work and home.

How about just banning prison visits. That would solve a lot of other contraband problems too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15953907
What was the process that your company took to come up with a Company Vision?
What was the process that your company took to come up with a Company Vision?
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So I'm interested in what process companies that you have founded, run or been employed at have taken to come up with their company vision?

Ie; has it been a lengthy (3-6mth) process, a 1-week process, or has someone come in and said "this is the vision" and managed to get buy in and alignment on it?

Also - has formulation of vision involved the entire company, just the members of the executive team, or only the CEO (or another team member)?

If it was a lengthy process - what were the kinds of questions that were asked that ultimately arrived at selection of an appropriate vision? And the activities that were undertaken (market/industry analysis, competitor analysis, etc)?

Also - how broad was the vision that you ended up arriving at (very broad, few constraints; or quite constrained)? And how frequently does/did your vision change?
Yea, DRAM prices was luckily already falling in 1996 for example, after staying constant for years.
I have a related idea of a commercial reuse license: https://kartick-log.blogspot.in/2016/11/a-commercial-reuse-l...

Related in the sense that they address the question of "how can we reuse other people's code without reimplementing, in a way that's financially viable for the original authors?"
There's definitely a similarity, but you've got the causal chain reversed (if there is one). The GEM UI was influenced by the Mac, at least determined judicially. This was the source of the initial "look-and-feel" lawsuit Apple won in the 80s.

> "At this point, Apple Computer sued DRI in what would turn into a long dispute over the "look and feel" of the GEM/1 system, which was an almost direct copy of Macintosh (with some elements bearing a closer resemblance to those in the earlier Lisa, available since January 1983)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Environment_Manager#G...

It's not surprising, though, given that Lee Lorenzen, formerly of Xerox PARC, wrote much of the code.
Well, there was a bit of hope. Palm bought BeOS, spun it off with PalmSource which all eventually got bought by ACCESS. It was hoped Palm would use BeOS as the basis for new operating systems but it never quite happened with the failed Palm OS Cobalt. Palm, going its own way, eventually created WebOS which is now owned by LG.
An old similar approach: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/november12011/
>"Railroads are under government orders to install positive train control by the end of 2018 after the industry lobbied Congress to extend earlier deadlines, citing complexity and cost"

Amtrak receives well over a billion dollars a year in subsidies from the US Federal government[1], they should not be allowed to use cost as an excuse for not modernizing safety.

Also I think if you sight safety as being too complex then maybe you have no business operating a monopoly passenger rail service. Lawmakers are just as much to blame for this tragedy as the incompetence and disregard at Amtrak.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/budget-options/2013/44782
This is not accurate. MM was a late entrant and didn't like being there, had minimal impact.
Id verification has nothing to do with liquidity. You should get verified before you get into it. GDAX volume for Litecoin/USD was $300M today. If that's not enough you can exchange for BTC and then for USD.
Yeah, I complain about that a fair amount as well.
> There are a few places where this is not true

Where?
The PATH subway system between NYC and NJ has been boasting on little ads inside the cars that they are implementing communications-based train control and positive train control. How would positive train control work underground, if it's GPS-based?
One circumstance: a lot of men* are in prison for domestic violence. The victims are often close to completely emotionally and mentally broken. The offenders often have equally manipulative friends who are not incarecerated. Allowing such prisoners unfettered phone access to 1) potentially contact victims or 2) contact friends to harass victims, seems like it is worth avoiding. Words can be very powerful and escaping the cycle of abuse is difficult. That was the first instance I thought of. I imagine there are many other where censorship makes sense.

* this is the most common dynamic, violence perpetrated by men.
It's not "one UI" as much as not reimplementing parts of the UI that don't change between macOS and iPad. Simplenote, for example, has a two-pane view, with a list of notes on the left and the selected note on the right, with a toolbar above the note. Don't reimplement the entire UI, implement only the diffs.

Like responsive web design, where you implement only the diffs between the phone and PC layouts of your site, while reusing things that don't change.
Still doesn't work. I've done clandestine work over weekends to speed up an application, then as part of shipping it also add a split test with half the audience having a delay similar to what was in place before I fixed the problem and brought that to the table with the "business" guys, and everyone nodded their head "wow" but every sprint after that was just full of new features.
Can you connect SLIME to this (or other) CL running on Android?
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Prisons already have land lines.

edit: Banning visits seems unusually cruel.
This is strictly a violation of the TCP specification (2016)
> I think it's better to realize that we're not all in this together

That doesn't make any sense at all.

Men and women are, in western society, naturally aligned and both genders as a whole want what is best for everyone.
Oh interesting, I assumed it was the other way around because of the word "Xerox" in the name.

I can see why they sued...
Exclude? I would think people would advertise on Facebook to get employees over 40. No young people use Facebook.
What are some alternatives to Mac App Store that give the developer the same services, like handling payment, including subscriptions, downloads, some DRM to prevent casual copying and updates, for less than 30%?

Last I checked, I had to assemble the above from disparate services, investigating each, integrating them, and paying for each, which doesn't seem like a productive use of my time or money.
> They care.

> They care.

> They care.

> They care.

I disagree. They will hire a consulting company to do a root cause analysis. The Ha'vad grads from McKinsey will swoop in, determine that the past doesn't matter, you need to get to black and to get to black, the St. Louis team needs to go, along with 20% of the following 7 teams....

No, they don't care. And never will.
For 5 long years I wore this Apple Watch 3 up my ass
Before cell phones, they would use code words and phrases so they could orchestrate activities via monitored phone calls.
Berlin is, in my experience, an incredibly walkable city. Get a U-Bahn pass, and you can go almost anywhere in an hour; with their double ring and relatively dense stops, and Prussian train, and even bus scheduling, it's a breeze. Especially compared to the shitshow in American cities.
You have it. Terse and to the point, i’m just providing more recognition here than my upvote.
I agree. Any effective strategy to reduce rape will involve the participation of victims, but all too often their advocates treat any guidelines as a way of saying "if you didn't get so blackout drunk, you wouldn't have been raped!" And so those types of educational interventions are underused.
i'm not having any problem on my iMac, running El Capitan.
Not everyone has the benefit of multiple potential jobs. Anti discrimination laws exist for those people.
I love the Dashboard and even updated an app that displays weather radar for my city. The idea of the Dashboard being an iOS app workspace makes perfect sense and I can't see how I missed the connection before.
Recent grads = Shit eaters. Typically 20-something, from a mediocre 2nd or 3rd tier univ, first job, invariably 2nd gen umherican, reporting to 1st gen immig manager who couldn't care less how much shit he feeds these swines. Endless hours, lotsa BSs, moving target requirements,... Often I have queried the eaters: "Why do you take that shit?" The look on their face says: "Isn't this how it's meant to be?" No. Oh fuck, no!! Of course, the 20+ has smaller balls than a squirrel. It'll be years before he can grow some and stand up to the manager who's chewing his meagre hangings.
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Just chiming in to say Valencia is LOVELY!!!! Such a fantastic, cheap, beautiful, beachy place to be.
Do yourself one better -- through cloudfront in front of it. S3 has rate limits too :)
Well, hopefully by the time this plan is realized Berlin cyclists will have developed things like respect, manners and a basic concept of not being the most important thing on the road.

While its true, that car priorization pushes pedestrian‘s quality of life down - the idea that pedestrians aren‘t as pushed by road rage cyclists is wierd.

For pedestrians Cars at least are identifiable (via license plates), can be slowed down by lane Design and are much more exposed to damage (in Germany even a tiny scratch you made in another car is something you yourself must call the Cops for or at least give the owner your data - German car owners fear nothing more than damages), thus are muuuch more accountable than cyclists.

Berlin and Hamburg have notorioisly dickish cyclists.
What makes it appear to be part of a long-term strategy? I don't see any evidence in the post itself. Care to share what you've found?
Is it? Someone who bought one probably knows how to sell in the same platform, no?
So printf is turing complete?
I ignore them. In the past, whenever I've politely responded no, it seemed to be a signal for them to keep trying to talk to me, or to try again in three months, when the whole point was to get them to stop talking to me.

Worst, though, is when they somehow get ahold of your phone number (or, in a recent case, call, then text about how they've just called). This is just straight up creepy as I don't lightly give my phone number out. In these cases I do take the time to ask them to please stop.
Some of these comments arguing that it's 'correct' behavior begs the question, do we want 'correct' or 'predictably expect-able' behavior. What i mean by that is most people would likely not expect a car to turn into that lane, even though it is 'correct'. Perhaps instead of following the rules so rigidly it should SOMETIMES break the rules to do the thing more like a human would, making it an all together safer system as humans would better be able to predict it's actions and adjust accordingly.

This of course imposes lots of philosophical problems like which rules can be broken, and which not.
Okay, what do you do if you detect large scale phone fraud?

Put them in prison and take away their access to landline? Well, that's what we do now, and it's not working, they'll just use a tiny cell phone as they do now.
Great post Dan! Especially appreciate the detailed explanation of a founding engineer.

Also gave a +1 to fizx for the note about a board seat. Important for sure.
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They updated the UI not too long ago (couple years, maybe?). I feel like format compatibility with proprietary software is more of a priority than being pretty, being a FOSS project and everything.
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There are already legal mechanisms such as a judge's order (not to mention technical methods) to address such cases. Banning every convict from using a phone is like swatting a fly with a Buick.
A lot of people in their 50's don't need to work. As long as they bought their home when it was affordable, they are fine. Some have sizable assets that the younger folks can't dream to achieve in their lifetime.

They won't accept work for less than premium wages, don't need to.

That being said, I admit that there is also another part of the population who is struggling and desperate for work at any price.

Last but not least there is the question of what is premium wage. In London for instance, a lot of folks over 30 moved to contracting where they can charge a good daily rate, without the hassle of whiteboard interview, overtime or politics. You'll see many companies (see the HN who is hiring) allegedly struggling to recruit at their great wages, but the truth is that employees have moved out to greener pastures for twice the money.
A bankrupt and highly corrupt county does not represent the country as a whole.

I do mean it as an honest question - is there evidence of widespread police indifference to rape?

I'd like to know how often getting a rape kit done leads to a criminal conviction. Does it double the likelihood?
Yeah, this is really weird to me. They're talking about installing sensors on particular tracks and the like, after saying that it's GPS-based, but... why? Stick a GPS on the engine, load a database of maximum speeds, get instant safety. What'm I missing?

(Yeah, you have to integrate with the engines themselves, but that seems like not a 6-year project, and especially not once it's been designed and tested. It probably also won't account for "stop, there's something else on the tracks", but just speed-checking seems like it would be a massive reduction of risk with very little complexity...)
That sounds doable. How much are you willing to pay?
Thanks for the links. The Indy Star gave a Bad Gateway so I found the amp ariticle here:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.indystar.com/amp/858322001
We’ve all been there
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I think the majority of complaints will come from small firms that don't have budgets for expansive licensing. I work with a nonprofit that has multiple labs setup, we have AD integration, RBAC, and use GPU passthrough features in the lab. All of this is run on donated or EOL hardware. We take in $0 in cash funding and only accept hardware and volunteer time. For us it basically means we either (fail to upgrade) or look for alternatives.

I think the modeling of being paid is fair and businesses should work towards paying something. Even then though, it's tough because licensing adds up. Some of the startups we mentor that are running XEN have very similar setups to the non profit. Many are running older EOL Dell servers with multisocket. One startup we work with has 5 servers in a rack, all purchased for under $1500. With the standard pricing agreement from Citrix, that would work out to $7,630 per year. This is all expected from a completely bootstrapped (pre-funding) startup.

I think it's a bad faith move removing features, I understand pushing the support need, but that can be addressed in a different manner.
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> this specific wreck

PTC wouldn't have just prevented this specific wreck, PTC would have prevented like 9 of the last 10 fatal train wrecks in the USA. Every single fatal wreck that happened since Obama pushed back the mandate would have been avoided by PTC.
This 1000x. I’m pretty frustrated by many of the posts here today, someone please post a github repo of “Understand the law in X minutes.”

Specifically, it is so common to see evaluations of a reasonable hypothetical counter-example that holds together logically, with an implicit or explicit judgement of the outcome meant to discourage the reader from being too hasty in regarding this new outrage as such.

There is no discussion of the reason such laws exist, or any appreciation of the gravity of breaking these laws, indeed little appreciation for what law is and how it is different from the most up-voted answer on stackoverflow. At a minimum, we should all have respect for the risk of legal jeopardy to ourselves in our professional work, as it is often not the executive or the corporate body that bears the punishment.
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Apple revises its controversial guidelines on template-based apps
I agree with the post you responded to. I have a 13-inch iPad "Pro" that I'm unhappy with since it doesn't do what it's promised to do. Can I build an iOS app? An Android app? Upload 100GB of data to Google Drive? Play movies stored on my external hard disc? Download Youtube videos for local playback, as some Mac apps can do? And so on.

As far as I'm concerned the "big iPhone" idea is a failure. I don't want a tablet that doesn't have the full power of a PC OS like macOS or Windows. That doesn't preclude touch. The OS and apps could and should be updated to support touch. And Apple has the market power to pull that off.

I want an OS with the full power of a PC OS + touch. You can get there by taking a mobile OS and making it more powerful, or by taking a PC OS and adding touch to the OS and apps. Yes, both options require a lot of work, but Microsoft is further ahead in having shipped it for years rather than denying the problem, as Apple does.
Medallions can be used in a number of ways. My comment was pointing out that why they were introduced initially was not to create a commodities market.
You could quite easily have a special local cell that only connects a whitelisted list of phone numbers; it could even add visitor phones for the duration of the visit.
> How about just banning prison visits. That would solve a lot of other contraband problems too.

Isn't it common for prison visits that the visitor is separated from the prisoner by some barrier (e.g. some acrylic glass barrier) so that it is nearly impossible to hand over contrabands, where the visitor is in an area that no prisoner can enter (so that the visitor cannot leave some contraband behind).

And even if there is something to hand over to the prisoner (either from a visitor and mail) I think it will have to go through security clearance. This shows that any way that a visitor uses to hand over some item can also be used via mail - so banning prison visits avails to nothing.
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If you only look for employees in places with young people, that is likely illegal. It would take a pattern of this over time. If someone found out (e.g., an inside ratted you out), and a lawyer took it on contingency (because the company doing it has deep pockets), then it could be serious trouble.
All of them AFAIK. Even the Zero W can (finally) be had with relative ease, I just ordered one from SparkFun and Adafruit also has 'em in stock. Been wanting to make one into a security camera but they have been hard to get until just recently.
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Alternate headline: Best Courtroom AI wrongly accuses 1 in 10 people of lying.
Let's just say that the game industry lack a maturity that you find in other software engineering professions.
* SATA I or SATA II or SATA III ?
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overspeed protection has been standard on most national railways for decades

is there any reason they invented a new system (expensive and slow to rollout) vs. using an existing tried and tested one?

the main UK system (there are two) is nothing to write home about, but it is gloriously simple and was very fast and cheap to deploy: two metal transmitters live in the track bed coming up to a hazard, spaced such that they are 1 second apart at the maximum speed

if the train detector passes over both in less than 1 second then the brakes are triggered automatically

they look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_Protection_%26_Warning_S...
It feels like you didn’t read the article.

The author made clear multiple times that they were using cron jobs as a test bed for Kubernetes, and they chose to “overengineer” because they’re looking to use Kubernetes for more and more of their needs over time. You’re kind of arguing against a straw man.

I think it’s actually a great example of how Stripe thinks about technology choices.

They’re interested in choosing fewer tools that are better built and can grow to solve more needs. And they’re evaluating tools not just by “time to complete X random project”, but by other longer-term heuristics like maintenance levels. And the best way to do that is to start using the tool for a single need, investing more time in learning/research than is required for the need itself—ensuring that it really is a solid, foundational solution—with the understanding that you’re choosing technology for the long run. Then continue to expand your use of the tool over time, reaping benefits on your initial time investment.
The suggestion that cars are more at risk from damage than cyclists is preposterous.

In my experience of cycling in many different countries, cyclist militancy is directly proportional to the safety conditions. Most notably, the quality (or otherwise) of the drivers.
I really hate that the answer offered to many modern social problem seems to be "more surveillance". I'm not saying it wouldn't help or that we shouldn't do it but like police body cams this is only as effective as the people charged with following through on the consequences. If a company retains control of the camera and wants to bury the evidence they'll still do it.
A lot of these points, like "Omit or shorten proofs", suggest that maybe more papers should have companion materials. Having the proof written out somewhere is definitely valuable (especially for us non-doctorate-holders who still would like to benefit from your research).

Would be especially interesting if journals started encouraging (and perhaps hosting/mirroring) supplemental materials.
That looks cool. I like th smaller form-factor and RJ45 100Mbps port.

I need one now. Thanks!
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Contraband often comes in through employees.
Don't forget fashion models.
You mean, an accountant?
This is strictly a violation of the TCP specification
In what calculus would cellphone service for prison employees at work outweigh prisoner visits?
I don't lose tabs when I close Edge (it does warn that I am closing all tabs when I exit). They come back when I open Edge the next time. Definitely a setting that can be switched.

The only suggestion for fonts is maybe using the ClearType font tuner tool in Control Panel.

FWIW I prefer Chrome but dig what MS is doing with Edge.
This was my thought exactly. I'd like to know the answer to that.

I think there's a difference b.w "we won't hire people over X yo for this job" and "90% of our applicants for this role are younger so we're just trying to spend our recruiting dollar in the most efficient way possible to reach those folks".

Alternatively, they could simultaneously being running ads targeting employees of an older age with different messaging and content to get higher conversion.

I'm interested to know at what point effective marketing crosses the line into discriminatory practice.