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> Adobe Premiere dropped 32-bit support in 2012.

And if someone bought Premiere in, say, 2010 and have been using it since then, to buy a new Apple computer they will need to buy a new license for Premiere?

Look: (1) I don't know anything about Apple. (2) I'm trying to learn. (3) I'm not a Windows fanboy. (4) I'm not against Apple. (5) I'm not in a computer hardware, operating system, programming language war. (6) It's perfectly reasonable for a person with my background to think about software compatibility. (7) I'm not trying to criticize, catch, trip up, denigrate, talk down, etc. Apple.

Currently I have sore spot about old software: My computer quit, and I had to rush out and just buy a computer. So, at Sam's Club I got an HP laptop with Windows 10 Home Edition. With that computer working for just simple, routine, Internet access and little more, I'm building my new computer and first server for my business.

But I'm finding problems with Windows 10 right along. One of the big problems is that there is too much software that I had working fine on Windows XP SP3 32 bit Professional that (A) won't work on Windows 10 and (B) for which I know of no replacements unless I start paying money, not being sure the software would work even if I did pay money, and even if it did work I'd have to discover and document the usual obscure nonsense, set lots of options, etc. before I could use the software. So, as soon as I have my new computer working, the HP laptop will get its top closed, its Ethernet and AC power connections unplugged, put away some place, and left to gather dust.

For my new computer, I won't have Windows 10 on it at all. I will install Windows 7 64 bit SP1 Professional. But I'm also installing Windows XP SP3 32 bit Professional to be sure I can run all my old software in case Windows 7 won't.

Software compatibility means a LOT to me. So, it was easy enough for me to guess that Apple made a big mistake dropping support for 32 bit applications software.

There is a lot of third party software out there, so much that it's tough for me to believe that somehow Apple has duplicated all of that. Then some of that software was written for 32 bit computing and was important for some users. And some of the companies writing that software went out of business and, thus, won't be writing 64 bit versions. So, I have to believe that some Apple users will still want to run some such old 32 bit software. But, maybe not.

I'm surprised. But I was trying to learn.

And, I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, e.g., I want nothing to do with Windows 10. Maybe I should try to buy a copy of 64 bit Windows XP Professional!!!! "If it ain't broke, then don't fix it.".
> but you're not free to just declare that view the only reasonable one and expect no one to argue

To be fair, I believe I am free in my expectations and declarations. I didn't and don't expect that however.

> right to attempt to sell your friend the file under the terms I want to set

To attempt a sale is not a right, at least not one I am familiar with.

> You dragging a dropping a icon representing the bits on a hard drive isn't valuable work.

Actually, in as much as that is included in the archival process, I disagree.

> It's illegal because the shared ethical framework of the people and society that drafted the constitution found it immoral.

Good thing Disney has nothing to do with it, otherwise copyright might stretch out to over a century.
I still find their spaced repetition lacking. I never see some of the words again after seeing them for the first time.
Pension funds. What a con.
Money and politics is basically the way people run things, as sad as it sounds. You can substitute money with something different, it doesn't matter as people need some system of exchange. Money seems effective and easy enough.

So, it's not the money that is the problem. It might have something to do with people, but I haven't figured it out yet.
Someone caring enough to look and post the links is a high-pass filter for interestingness.
This seems like spam. Who is this person? Why should I trust his analysis and information on a topic so easy to get wrong?

They only seem to have this website and 13 Twitter followers.
What do you think about government-financed prizes for private-sector drug development, e.g., the government pledges $X billion if you develop an Alzheimer's cure and place it in the public domain? Bernie Sanders has a proposal like this: https://www.vox.com/2015/9/25/9397069/bernie-sanders-drug-pr....

It seems like that retains most of the advantages of the current system, incentivizes private-sector development, but also eliminates the problem of high prices at the point of delivery. (i.e., it correctly prices the marginal cost of treating someone at the marginal cost of producing the drug, which is generally low).
Uber introduces new safety features
Something I've rarely seen asked in regards to the "Bitcoin will become the main global currency" fever dream fantasy is this:

Who would want to live in a world where a new multi-trillionaire class is created out of thin air, particularly given the shady history of many who would be among those people? What blows my mind is that the people I see hoping for this are often the same ones claiming Bitcoin will improve global wealth inequality.

If you think high wealth individuals have too much control and too little accountability now, just think about what would happen if people who hoarded Bitcoin drug profits and people like Brock Pierce suddenly held hundreds of billions of dollars or more, all of which was liquid.
Cybersecurity Insurance
> On the NES however, every line of code is yours. There's no such thing as libraries, operating systems, or frameworks. They don't exist. It's refreshing.

I would say that there’s still “other people’s code” that you rely on—that code is just reified into ASICs you drive with control messages over IO ports, rather than being OS system-service daemons you drive with control messages over IPC.

Also keep in mind that, despite the lack of a forced OS or BIOS on the system itself, Nintendo’s SDKs included snippets or code samples (or sometimes complete small libraries as modifiable assembler source), and developers shared others around when they came up with them to solve a particular problem.

(Later on, in SNES/N64/GameCube era, Nintendo effectively handed you a whole library exokernel worth of precompiled, static-linkable libraries for you to use, too. The NES was too small for that, though.)
Seems reasonable. I can see the <insert perpetually outraged millennial news site> headline now: "An open letter to Facebook: How dare you recommended I be friends with my rapist"
Whether they succeeded is debatable. I detest TV and Radio for annoying insurance ads which are useless to me. Hearing the stupid jingles over and over again is a waste of my precious time.

That said, I must admit that ads on Facebook/Twitter/etc are also rarely relevant for me.
It did't ask if being pessimistic is useful. I asked if future looks hopeful for you, from where we are standing right now..
As far as I can tell, SFML wouldn't be appropriate. By web-based publication, I mean using the APIs supported by browsers (Canvas, WebGL, Web Audio API).

Potentially I could use Emscripten's HTML5 API ( https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/api_reference... ). Although I was hoping for a nicer interface than calling out to a C translation of the JavaScript APIs.
For iOS apps, you need a Mac. Maybe (and this is theoretical) you could set up a combined Fastlane & CI integration that builds the apps using some cloud service, such as Macincloud, Bitrise, etc. Fastlane would then build and upload the iOS test builds automatically so can use them on your phone using the internal testing group in TestFlight. When everything seems fine, then you can just promote the internal test build to production. Since Flutter custom renders everything, you could do most of the development on a Linux machine and test on Android emulator/device.

For just Android, you don't need a Mac at all.
Either that, or it's just mentally exhausting to be productive for a full day. It might not be that the job is bad, but rather that the amount of energy for certain kinds focus and tasks is limited.

In that case, if the desire to do side projects is great enough, I suppose the correct solution would be to try going for a somewhat shorter work week.
So much white space....

Why?
I understand the desire to distance oneself from the term graph database, but this is a graph database.
XSS in pastebin.com via unsanitized mardown output
How The New York Times is trying to preserve millions of old pages
Teaching cyber security in middle school
>Millions will wake up with no goals and no structure to their lives because they have all of their most basic needs satisfied by UBI

People keep predicting this utopia of people sitting around twiddling their thumbs with nothing to do as all basic needs are provided. These predictions go back to the pre-industrial era.

Inequality is the fuel of ambition and simply having the basic needs covered won't be enough for people in the same way it currently isn't for upper middle and upper classes -- they still compete.

The "work" we will be doing will just be different. 3D printing and autonomous vehicles are going to have a massive impact on manufacture and distribution. However people still need to create things -- and AI is currently just good at optimizing things not "new thinking".
Well, if it is an ARM MCU, Basic, Pascal, Java, C++, Oberon, Ada and Rust are also possible options. :)
The future of hospitals
They couldn't bother to cite the image apparently but it's from a web comic called Gunshow
Every single mistake in the world is preventable under your definition, though; every single mistake has an alternative action that was a non-mistake, and if only the people had thought more and chosen the non-mistake course of action the mistake would have been prevented. If a ‘mistake’ has no alternative that would have prevented it, it is no longer a mistake and it is instead a tragedy.

This doesn’t help us prevent the mistake in the future, though. You can’t prevent bugs and vulnerabilities in code by just mandating that everyone think more before acting.

This is why we have a rule during our learning reviews at work following an incident that the action item can’t be, “be more careful next time.” That is not an action item, that is magical thinking.

We have a saying at my work - “plan for a world where we are just as stupid tomorrow as we are today”
It's a fairly well understood concept in economics that low interest rates create macroeconomic risk because people by nature seek yield.

If the "safest" assets, like treasury bonds and cash have effectively 0 expected return then funds and individuals have to branch out to other riskier assets in order to find the yield they need.

This runs somewhat contrary to the popular trope that high interest rates are bad because they hamper growth. In fact though the "growth" that people discuss in low interest rate environments is really a probability distribution over the risk environment. It's effectively having faith that markets will efficiently allocate capital in a way that returns a multiple, in the time period that you desire it to - something that is treacherous territory at best.

So when you hear things like "The fed is raising interest rates" and the stock market falls - it's basically saying that risk, and thus possible opportunity for growth, is being lowered. That's good for stability, but bad for possible growth that comes from that risk.

You can't have safety and fast growth in your investments at the same time. It's a tenet of pricing and efficiency.
Duolingo still lacks a structural syllabus
this. First, the thing that none of the decentralize advocates recognize is that outside of HN and the tech community, no one cares! When you mention the word "decentralized" to Joe Schmo of the world, you already lost him. He has no idea what you're talking about and doesn't care.

Second, there is no way that a decentralized social network is going to have the quality and feature development that a centralized company will have. There is a reason people build great things in this world from buildings, to widgets, to software etc. It's called incentive. Capitalism drives innovation and it's a requirement to have the quality of product that is needed to draw eyeballs off existing platforms.

Lastly, I don't buy the argument that centralized companies can't be responsible with data. Do we trust banks to hold our money? The future is not decentralized social networks.
What dynamic languages run on the jvm? To my knowledge it doesn't support dynamic types at all.
how different is this from cx_freeze? is it faster? (compile or execution)
This kind of misses the point. Facebook designed its product, services, and its entire business model around the need for serving you ads. The idea of a Facebook "without ads" almost seems like a contradiction in terms, because if the need to serve you ads wasn't baked right into the service's design it would never look or work the way it does.

I may be willing to pay some nominal amount of money for a service that fulfills Facebook's ostensible mission of "connecting people" (however vague that is). This would probably have wound up looking a lot more like Facebook's original iteration, which was functionally just a personal homepage and message board.

A service that made it free to view, like, and share content but charged a fee on the order of a postage stamp to post stuff (up to a certain amount of stuff) would probably have much less reach, but a way way waaaay higher signal to noice ratio. I'd happily pay $0.45 cents to send a party invitation or share a photo album to a service like that assuming we don't have some race-to-the-bottom situation where nobody will pay.
For a while I had enabled Messenger to handle texts on my phone, because it kept nagging me to do so, and also the one built in to the phone was terrible. So that means for a time they saw all my github/gmail authenticator login codes, delivery notifications, etc. I'm sure that's all somewhere.
Yeah good point about the resolution. So I wonder what effect lowering the resolution would have?

In general, it’s definitely impressive how well they work.
No, understanding what the language is doing is not the same as looking at assembly or even understanding what the optimizer is doing.

If swift is creating some variables on the heap and/or creating virtual tables for inheritance (I don't know much about it) then you don't need to look at the assembly to know that you are creating indirection or doing too many heap allocations.
I blame Obama for not fixing it. You are correct about problems with the old system, but since I had insurance that didn't affect me.
"They're not required by law to give it all to you, are they?"

Not sure about the law (which also changes from country to country) but even if they'd be required to give all users their data, it is possible that they keep a relevant slice of the results obtained by matching that data. Releasing all that data public could reveal the inner workings of their algorithms, so I'd understand if they would rather release what people gave them while keeping most of what they inferred from that information, which of course is where the real knowledge is.
Spam filters work well because they are centralized! It requires a lot of data to train the ML models...its not just a static blacklist
Isn't that how you would store a word vector graph in SQL?
Electrified rails on trains have been around much longer than parking stations. Plus batteries are the biggest problem (and most expensive) part of ecars, so this is a good idea to try out.
Batteries are expensive and heavy. Plus range anxiety.

If this allows for cars to have a 50 mile battery range while still being able to travel unlimited miles on highways, it would be a huge win.
You're making the assumption here that it's only recording when the hands are on the wheel. Presumably it also records when the hands are off the wheel. So if the crash happened at (to completely make up a timestamp) 13:24:01.123, and the latest log entry says at 13:24:01.108 the hands were off the wheel, that would be good reason to say that the driver did not have their hands on the wheel at the time of the crash.

Of course, I don't actually know what the logs look like, but I'd rather err on the side of assuming that the designers of a real-time system for monitoring something related to driver safety took into account the idea that, when the car is involved a severe crash, they should have as much accurate data recorded as possible rather than leaving it sitting around for ages in un-flushed caches.
I wouldn't pay anything to Facebook for their service, but I would pay for a Facebook competitor who offered a similar type of service. If only out of spite.
Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett [pdf]
> most of the malware infections

Can you give a source for that?

I keep asking for it and never had any good response. The best I have found is that it helps show phishing. A link that said "Install me" and trigger the download of an executable when you click on it doesn't make HTML responsible for malware infections.
I presume the hospitals and insurance companies negotiate "volume discounts" or similar, effective paying less (but call it whatever you want.)

For example, a hospital stay. The insurance company would pay $Y and that's accepted by the hospital - no questions asked.

On the other hand, you, without insurance, would pay the "list price" which isn't $Y but $Y+ $Z.

This type of price "confusion" only benefits those with the resources and desire to exploit it.
>of taking advantage of someone's desire to live to extract as much money from them as possible in order to increase profit margins that people tend to have a problem with. This is called exploitation

It's not just about exploiting the people paying either, it's also about restricting access to people who can't afford it.

If you don't have an easy way to do price differentiation, inelastict demand encourages a situation where it's more profitable to charge $1million to 1 person than it is to charge $100k, to 10 people.

One way drug companies try to get around that is with price differentiation, but it's not very precise and effectively charging for a product as a percent of your income comes with it's own problems.
I think you're describing a separate problem, of campaign financing, lobbying and/or corruption.

> The point is that the "healthcare system" should be an emergent one where each person is maximally in control of their own destiny.

Again, this is a nice sounding platitude. What does it mean? Since you want everyone to be "maximally in control", does that mean Mad Max-style anarchy? Representative democracy ensuring everyone gets a voice and securing of rights?

Both ensures freedoms, but in very different directions.
Really, classic dilbert is Scott Adams blog posts about how Donald Trump is using hypnosis to control the electorate. What happened to that dude!?
Discussion for the Spectrum product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16820631
I am confused : my google-fu says Rafael is Israeli.

What is the French connection?
It’s fairly trivial to quickly animate each letter or stroke to flicker at a random high speed interval so anytime a render captures a screenshot you get garbled incomprehensible text.
Linear types don't "show" promise, they solve the issue, and this has been known since linear logic was popularized by Wadler[1] and Baker[2] in the early 1990s. The problem is that programming with linear logic is very inconvenient for a lot of things, and very inefficient for when you actually want to share data.

[1] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/linearuse/linear...

[2] http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LinearLisp.html
redcrowbar (Elvis) and I (Yury) are the authors of the post. Happy to answer questions ;)
>More important, the pieces of data that I found objectionable, like the record of people I had unfriended, could not be removed from Facebook, either.

The article somewhat alludes to this practice as nefarious so that Facebook can serve better ads. Through a different view, one where you don't assume the worst, you could argue they keep a record of who you unfriend, so they don't recommend them as a friend again.

We are currently in a place where everything Facebook does is bad. Let's be a bit more rationale at times.
Brazilian here. I miss Orkut a lot, enjoyed much more than FB. I had the sense that Orkut lost a lot of users in Brazil right after "The Social Network" hit the brazilian movie theathers. Everyone jumped in the hype then.
Billy Mitchell stripped of Donkey Kong scores, banned from competition
I wish that I could download all the information that Google has on me, but I was stupid and I asked them to hide it from me...
100% serious suggestion! :)
wolframalpha is really great for a good set of questions, but it's not the AI being envisioned.
That's why instead of UBI I think we should make the government an employer of last resort for anyone who has exhausted their unemployment benefits and can't find a regular job. We essentially did that during the Great Depression through the WPA and other agencies. It functioned pretty well. There's no reason we couldn't do it again.
Comparing the before and after samples, there is definitely an audible difference for this pair of ears.

To be fair, I listened to the after sample first and it sounded like regular old Skrillex to me.

I scrolled up and listened to the before sample and noticed that the bass was deeper and more harmonious with the higher end frequencies. Basically, the original sample has a "subsonic" vibrations that resonate in time and "harmony" with the higher end sounds. (Also, I'm using higher-end earphones with custom ear canal sleeves to listen.)

So, I probably wouldn't have noticed anything unusual if I'd only listened to the modified bass drop, but I can hear the difference when comparing the two.
Vio Digital's blockchain based money transfer app
I used to work with Catia for a while and I had the impression that their strength was more the ability to sell to enterprises and not the actual product. But I never did a direct comparison to other products so that impression may be wrong.
I was just responding to his point.
Except that Prime members still see ads and their data is still collected.
That would ostensibly be a lie.
We used the same temporal colocation analysis to find ships smuggling things at sea. ;)
has anyone had success with any of these language-learning apps, even as supplemental material to a more traditional education?

I've tried to use Duolingo for Japanese, with very little success on its own. Paired with my own studying, it was only a bit more helpful, but not more helpful than flashcards.

Another app, LingoDeer, was better, because it had a curriculum and more unified lessons, and I could swap between Kanji/Katakana/Hiragana at will to learn one at a time. (Whereas DuoLingo will bring you to 15% understanding of Hiragana before dumping you into Katakana).
Not really sure how this comment relates to the submitted article. This feels more like

if (HN_title.contains('Bitcoin')) {
express_generic_opinion();
}
do they do that?
Indian Bitcoin exchange loses $6M btc
Obama couldn't fix anything because he was the president and he couldn't make laws. He barely even had the political clout to get ACA passed.

The blame is on Congress.
Not necessarily, when you need to have something that will last 5 years on battery power and not cost more than $1 per piece, a Pi Zero won't do.

But even then, if they have up to 512 KB, is like having the same tooling as on the Amiga, Atari, PC (MS-DOS) on a needle size CPU.

For younger generations, you can check on YouTube what we managed to do with 512 KB on those systems, even when using higher level languages.