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The gun and knife store. :P
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Was pretty excited at the pi-top on first glance, but, $319 for what's basically a screen and a clamshell enclosure to the Pi? Yikes. Surely we can do better. The Superbook is a clamshell laptop powered by your smartphone and costs half that.[0]

[0]http://www.sentio.com/
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I'm not particularly bothered by Apple making it harder to put shovelware like this on the App Store.
How did this become religion on HN?

Interesting things in crypto-blockchain tech, today:

* Origin

* NuCypher (disclaimer: I'm on this team)

* Loki

* New version of web3.py / other python tooling becoming mature

* Trustless Quorums

* Distributed validation

I can go on and on. But I just don't see how anybody can think that these are uninteresting times for this tech.
Those of you discussing Amiga might find this comment from skrzyp interesting:

https://lobste.rs/s/vkpekg/morphos_3_10_released#c_ktgnn3

It gives a huge, deep history lesson from author's perspective covering important events, hardware/software, and especially the culture. It was fascinating. Also made me hold off on MorphOS for one of my projects.
The board is elected by the shareholders. The system could change, but I don't see how it would scale not to use a representative strategy like a board. How would shareholders micro-manage everything?
Not the GP, but my guess is that they mean that they were doing equally bad jobs, but without Uber's pretense that it wasn't a bad job.
shitty jobs will disappear first (robots/automation will take care of it)... and if universal income becomes needed, it will be paid for by the robot-taxes.
The $500 Mac mini can handle Xcode just fine, and that is a many year old machine that hasn't been updated. Maybe not if you've been spoiled on better hardware, but it performs adequately.
Barrier to entry. If your project is more than a hobby, you can jump through a couple hoops to reach the iOS userbase.

Sure, I can do that. But I won't. If you buy an iPhone, I'm afraid you will just get an inferior version of my service, or you won't find it at all, because you bought into a platform that is developer-hostile.

In the meantime, all of my other customers, who are happy to visit my web sites directly or find them via more developer-friendly channels, will be benefitting from improved features or extra content or lower prices that we could offer because we didn't waste time jumping through Apple's hoops.

This is very much about barriers to entry, because every barrier cleared represents an opportunity cost. Nothing about jumping through Apple's hoops makes my service better for my customers, and all of it makes life harder for us.

Your whole argument about being developer-first also being user-hostile seems like one big false dichotomy to me. It is precisely because I have limited time and resources and I want to spend them making things better for my users and thus ultimately being more successful as a business that I won't play these games.
That works in theory, but in practice, Amazon still has shitty employee retention. Top software talent is a seller's market. Most people who have the choice would choose Facebook, Google, or Microsoft over Amazon because Amazon is stingier.
The existence of littered bottles found along major highways tells a different story. Nobody throws out that many bottles of orange crush.
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I worked with the OLPC in university (not MIT). I can confirm your findings, and additionally:

• The hardware was not designed in conjunction with the software; it seems to have been built based on a "wishlist" of features drawn up before the software was developed. There were a number of major hardware features which were unused or unsupported by software, including but not limited to the resistive tablet, the low-power-mode ("e-reader mode") for the display, and even several of the hardware buttons (including most of the ones next to the screen, which were mapped confusingly to arrow keys).

• Aside from being confusing, the software was very rudimentary. The two major activities which would be useful to students (the web browser and text editor) were not actually Sugar applications at all, but standard Linux applications (Firefox and Libreoffice, iirc?) wrapped in their interface. There were very few nontrivial native Sugar activities available.

• The Sugar interface, as designed, had some very strange semantics which were not intuitive, and not reflected well in the user interface. Every activity opened by the user was saved in the filesystem -- even ones which were not useful to save, like web browsers or simple memory games. The OS would automatically discard old activities as necessary to keep storage available -- so recording a long video, for instance, would delete older documents created in the text editor.

• Development on the project had a lot of bizarre priorities. For a time, one major development priority was to build a reverse-engineering suite for the OLPC, so that students could reverse-engineer the mesh networking firmware and develop their own under a free license. Fortunately, I don't think this got to the point of actually being developed.
That average payment is for all Americans, not just working-class. The bottom 20% of American households spends only $3559/year on transportation (overall, not just on car payments). So either their car payments are much lower, or they just don't own many cars, but in any case they don't have many $500 car payments to forgo.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-high-income-and-low-income...
I don't know if ownership of the actual robots is a key component. But certainly, have full access and power to customize the machines in use is important. Something similar is already happening now in the developing world where the first access to the internet and computing for most people is a mobile phone. There is a growing number of people who don't know how to type on a keyboard but know how to use a computer. Voice commands are a large part of their input. As great as voice command can be, there is power and flexibility you simply can't access without a keyboard.

The only way I learned to program and now have a career is because I had easy access to the internals of a computer. I could start tinkering. I started messing with the internals of the computer even before I started programming. My curiosity led me to the file system of games and I started replacing sound and image files to mod my games. If someone's access to computing is a mobile phone they download and install prepacked bins. The can't and don't get to look at anything under the hood. No matter how strong their curiosity is they can't just discover.
Every quarter in their magazine they publish very good articles 5 pro and 5 against brexit.
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> It is conceivably possible for every American to have adequate food, housing, and medical care, to work in safe and humane conditions, and so forth.

It is conceivably possible for every human - given the current available resources.
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Can confirm both—they do, and many don't mind. My brother is a truck driver.

Note also that it's harder to get to a bathroom from a truck on a highway than from a desk in an office.

Edit: Does not excuse Amazon's labor behavior.
Imagine if you install Pandora as a PWA. It's now on your homescreen. You launch it. You start playing some music. Now you switch over to Twitter. Woops! The audio stopped playing. You bring Pandora back to the fore. It reloads and starts playing a different song.

Worse, there's no way to fix that. That's how it's supposed to work.

This is the state of PWAs on iOS.
Where is the setting? I have Nexus 5x and I remember that there was night mode, but it was never exposed in settings. It was only available on 7.0.
interesting to find this on Hacker News - nice post!
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> Where is the evidence?

Basic math?

If you have $1 million to spend (as an example), and you can open a new store and hire more employees at a lesser rate, or pay your current employees more and not open a new store:

opening a new store = growth and more people hired + more revenue

paying your current employees more = less "employee misery and churn" and no growth + less revenue
Invalid argument. That the guy admits to cheating in other games has absolutely zero bearing or relevance to Arena secretly installing this kind of invasive spyware on players' computers.
No, it really didn't. And reflective outdoors looked even worse. In the shade, it was washed out and the colors were wrong. In the sun, it looked like a bizarre black-and-white rendition of something where, if you concentrated, you could guess what it was trying to display.

With a lot more development time maybe they could have fixed the problems. Maybe.
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To everyone involved in getting this over the finish line: awesome work!

I've been using pypi.org for a few months now, and it's such a huge step forward from the old PyPI.
What if someone breaks the build?
In general, large companies have a lot more data around them, a lot more coverage from analysts and journalists and the like, and generally have a lot more eyes on them. These companies are a lot more efficiently priced. You can do the legwork yourself- getting on management calls, reading industry news, poring over the financial statements to find strength or weakness that are not widely known.

So lets say you are a 10 billion dollar fund. You do your research and find that there is a small $100 million dollar company that doesn't have much debt, is growing rapidly, and the management seems good and there are good tailwinds for the industry as whole.

You have 100x the deployable capital than the company's market capitalization. Even if the stock price doubles or triples in price, your potential upside for the firm as whole is a relative drop in the bucket. You can't deploy more than a few million into this company without moving the market. For a large fund, it isn't worth wasting time chasing these small opportunities. In fact, "scaling" is a hard problem in funds.

Hence, there is actually a lot of opportunity out there for small scale investors who are willing to look under rocks that bigger guys don't see enough potential opportunity in.
If we can hold Facebook accountable for our data, there is no reason why we can't make Apple responsible for our behavior. Apple blames others for addiction, but I think it is time they recognize the damage they are doing to people's minds. In another decade, I am sure there will be sizeable longitudinal survey's pointing to smartphones and people's psychological problems.
Does your distaste for native apps extend to the desktop computer? Many HN users (myself included) dislike Electron-type apps because they feel slow and bloated. On my computer, native apps are much nicer, and feel like they fit in much better with the desktop environment.

If you agree that native apps on the desktop are a good thing, than I think you would agree that, for smartphone users, native mobile apps are a good thing as well, for the same reason.
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Ad revenue needs replacing with a viable alternative.
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There's also buybacks, which has mostly been tech companies' weapon of choice when it comes to capital return.
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An alternative is the onyx boox max 2, which runs android and has the Google play store available. I mainly use it to read technical papers in PDF format, and it works great. It comes handy also for user manuals that only come in pdf format. In short: the onyx boox matches my needs and I am very satisfied with it.
It sounds like they used fingerprints correctly.

Wrong way to use fingerprints: "We have a crime and no suspects, but we have a fingerprint. We ran that through our database, and got a single match. That must be the person who left the print".

Right way to use fingerprints: "We have a crime and several suspects that we know were deeply involved in the matter that the crime was part of, but we don't know which were actually there during the crime. We also have this fingerprint left during the crime, and it matches exactly one of the suspects, which shows beyond a reasonably doubt he was there".

It's really no different from hair color, skin color, sex, height, weight, age, or DNA--the evidentiary value of a match on any of those depends on how that thing is distributed in the population that you can show by other means includes the correct person. The more you can narrow down that population, the better the evidentiary value.

Take sex for an extreme example. A woman reports that a man assaulted her in New York. There are a lot of men in New York, so if that's all you have to go on it is pretty worthless. But suppose an officer saw the attack, got a good enough look to see that the attacker is a man but nothing else, and saw that man run into a women's restroom to hide. The officer enters the restroom, and finds that it is occupied by two women and a man, and there is no way out of the restroom except the door the man entered by, which the officer had under observation continuously from the time the man entered to the time the officer entered and saw the three occupants.

Convicting that man for assault would be quite reasonable on the above evidence, even though it is largely based on the fact that he is male and the assailant was male. That's because other good evidence narrowed the population of possible assailants down to just three, and so if you can conclude that the assailant must be in that group, then the assailant being male does show that he was the assailant.
I have a really hard time equating botting with cheating. I don't do it myself, but in my opinion if your game can be botted you botched your game design. Also, MMO cheating implies for me some damage to other players which I don't see either with botting.

Anyway: Whether he botted or not is not the point of the thread. Even if everyone they caught would have cheated (according to their and your definition) that's still a pretty significant privacy intrusion from ArenaNet.
Oh, the gray goo is already here, has been for centuries. It even glows at night. We've just not noticed because it grows slowly and is only visible at extremely zoomed-out scale. But its growth has definitely sped up in recent decades.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/CitiesAtNight/

(slightly tongue-in-cheek, slightly not).
Teach people not to finance $500 worth of car each month (plus gas, plus insurance, plus maintenance

How? Keep in mind, I drive a car I bought for $1700 cash and I've restored and maintained it with my own hands.

Most people don't have the time, knowledge, tools, or space to maintain an older car, so a new car with a warranty is a smart move.

New cars are safer and more fuel efficient. They last longer than ever before. Not having a car is not an option for most Americans.

I don't see how a car payment is indicative of poor decision-making.
It is a random garbage company that is stuck in early nineties. It preys on stupid first time company owners whom it sells its credit builder for business services. That's the entire business model.

Edit: Can't respond due to rate limit - 40k/year from 1000 companies is nothing compared to $199/mo and more from credit builder from every Jack and Jill with a DBA, LLC or Inc.
The response from Arenanet [1] is noteworthy, as they specifically gave a list of programs that they banned for. If they weren't spying on the programs users have running, I'd expect them to ban on less specific factors than exactly this list of five programs.

[1] https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/comment/476255/#C...
Someone pitch this experiment to the slowmo guys
> Eventually we'll average out.

Right now it's doing the opposite. Middle and lower classes are getting poorer in rich parts of the world. Billionaires are getting so much richer.

Gini coefficients are going up.
A tool like RescueTime helps segment one's use of devices and services - it's pretty insightful in terms of measuring one's "Digital Weight"
I can't find a way that $500 per month adds up to "multi-million dollar net worth". Even at a very optimistic 10% return rate, it comes to just over 1.1 million over thirty years. What assumptions are you making in your calculation to come up with 2million+ at retirement from $500 per month of savings?
> I've never met a developer who complained about needing a Mac to develop for iOS that has put forth an even halfway decent iOS app.

This is essentially begging the question, isn't it?

If the developer wasn't required to use a specific development environment, might they be able to produce a higher-quality app?
> Why do you think China is so keep on keeping the world informed that Taiwan is a 'ROC'?

They're not. The mainland pitch is the PRC and ROC are a single country. Taiwan and the rest of the world politely (very politely) disagree.

> A couple more moves like these and you might see that part dropped in return for something more forceful

Well sure. Xi is now a dictator. Invading neighbours is what dictators do when they need cheap political points.

More broadly, "we'll trash our neighborhood if you don't do what we want" shouldn't be accepted as valid leverage. If China mucks around with Taiwan, they do so knowing the U.S. is obligated to militarily respond.
The "marginal" costs come from gathering and refining the raw resources that the machines operate on, and maintenance.

We already have machines that produce food. Why do you think they are still manned by an entire workforce? Out of sadism?
MacBook Air and Mini should be fine for most stuff, certainly for glorified web apps.
It's brilliant for Amazon, not so much for the employee and it doesn't matter if you're committed to the company if the relationship is not bilateral (and it's often not). You can re-negotiate your pay and stuff but if the company has a financial incentive not to, there are several HR devices to keep you from doing so. Let's not bring up the regular reorgs which are notorious for wiping out careers.

I've been living in the Seattle area for a really long time and I've heard so many horror stories coming from Amazon that I could fill a book.

Also, I am aware of the 'Amazon is not for everyone' narrative. Yes, I agree, it's not for people who value their work/life balance and expect to be treated as a human at their workplace.

I am also aware of the 'it depends on the team' narrative. That's bullshit. Indeed it does depend on the team but 'generally' (to quote Zuck) it sucks.
So by this author’s estimation, the Apple App Store is the worst and the Microsoft App Store is the best. I can tell him that from the user’s perspective, it’s the exact opposite, and I have exactly one app from Microsoft and hundreds from Apple.
Yes, first and last time being a landlord. When I was growing up, my parents had a similarly bad experience renting a home they couldn't afford to sell after moving out-of-state. Theirs included an unscrupulous (rather than just incompetent/lazy) PM who charged them for unnecessary and expensive repairs, and tenants who paid their deposit and never paid again (the PM talked them into renting to Section 8ers). The situation ultimately ended in foreclosure for my parents (they were depending on rental income to make the mortgage payments).

If I ever find myself upside-down on a mortgage again, I'm going to short-sale, walk away, or find a reputable local arsonist to deal with it.
Just check kernel32.dll, it was CLEAN for years, now there are references to .net framework and it is becoming a mess. Believe me, Windows are becoming a mess, I never liked linux (actually I hated it) but the directions that Windows are taking are worrying (it is the same perspective when I say linux is becoming a bloated piece of , with each release it is becoming worse but at least it is open source. But dont get me wrong, I am writting this from purely technical perspective, for a typical user, everything is just fine. No need to worry, except maybe Windows 365 in 2020.

(I will refrain from further commenting as my technical perspective is hitting into large fanbase of both systems and karma here is really not beeing able to handle it. At the end it is the terror of the less technical average.)
Yes, it seperates style from presentation. That's a great way to get an understanding of the structure and content of the document and seperate concerns. 'Table data holding table data' does not do this well at all.

Not responding further after this because `Actually, it isn't.` isn't a setence typically found in a polite adult conversation.
I also heartedly recommend Jacques Ellul. From his wiki page (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul):

> Jacques Ellul (French: [ɛlyl]; January 6, 1912 – May 19, 1994) was a French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor who was a noted Christian anarchist. (...) The dominant theme of his work proved to be the threat to human freedom and religion created by modern technology. Among his most influential books are The Technological Society and Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes.

I’ve just finished reading his “Illusion of politics”, where he explained (back in the 1960s) how the West lives in a technocratic world only focused on efficiency and why this causes politicians and political decisions (and ultimately democracy itself) to become sort of obsolete, because all the decisions taken by them (the politicians) should ultimately answer to only one and most important criteria: they should be efficient. And as only the technocrats can tell/approximate which decisions may or may not be efficient, the politicians end up being just “puppets” rubber-stamping the decisions actually taken by the technocrats.

I’m now just about to start reading his “Le bluff technologique” (it’s in French) and I’m very, very excited because of it. Again, I recommend Ellul to all those interested about us, humans, and about how we function, reading him reminded me of when I first read Hobbes, Rousseau or Tolstoy, i.e. other great literary and philosophical figures from the past that did a great job of describing how our species “operates”. Only that Ellul exposes us confronting this new and modern world, which said authors didn’t have the chance to do.

Later edit: For those down-voting this, I urge them to reconsider. Not the down-voting itself, which I don’t care about, but Jacques Ellul himself. Someone mentioned Ted Kaczynski, it turns out Ellul was his favorite philosopher (https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/06/08/the-unabo...). I’ve just finished the introduction of the book I said I was about to start reading, and it’s haunting how he prophetised the “missed chance” represented by the dream of a de-centralized society promised at some point by modern computer networks. He “warned” us (in the 1970s and the 1980s) that we had a very short window of opportunity for making this new technology work in our best interest by making things less centralized. It turns out both the www and more recently crypto-currencies are such missed chances.

> Kaczynski claimed in all humility that half of what he read in The Technological Society he knew already; he discovered in Ellul a soul mate rather than a teacher. “When I read the book for the first time, I was delighted,” he told a psychiatrist who interviewed him in jail, “because I thought, ‘Here is someone who is saying what I’ve already been thinking.'”
I have used go.rice before. This looks similar.