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> If the app isn't worth $40

Ay, there's the rub. The problem is also related to price anchoring [1]: People [2] accepted the price of $70 for the perpetual value provided by the app (including cloud syncing), but balked at $40/year. The latter price makes the app more expensive over 2 years, and the developer promising updates doesn't have quite the impact to justify the change in the eyes of the angry customers.

If the app initially cost, say, $160, maybe the newer pricing would've been better accepted. I hear Adobe and Microsoft are doing quite well with the subscription models...

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

[2] The people who bought it. This is important, because it ignores all the people who thought this wasn't good value. Maybe some of the initial non-purchasers became subscribers. Market analysis is hard.
This is an extremely personal question. I have extreme biases, I personally favour:

Bryan Magee's book on Schopenhauer.

German Idealism/The Fate of reason by Fredrick Beiser.

Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Magee

Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense by Allison

Plato: Complete Works by John Cooper is good

The Paidea series by Jaeger is amazing as is the four volume collection by Giovanni Reale if you're interested in ancient philosophies (like me)

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The 'phenomenological' school is considered important.

Making Sense of Heidegger by Sheehan

Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy by Hass

However I think most true Western thought is to be found in the great works of literature. Ovid/Dante etc. try reading Howard Blooms work "The Western Canon".

Personally I find most western philosophy quite turgid.
It's not even that - they basically are back to just the isolated professional market now as the majority of built-in apps do many of the enhancements that the cheaper subscription licensees would have sought out Adobe for. No one except aspiring professionals really needs the majority of Adobe projects to do competent looking amateur work anymore.

Subscriptions from Adobe were meant to soften the initial sale, but Adobe's own rigidity with the subscription schemes on release shot them in the foot, as organizations had to wait a long time for a model to come out that met the needs of small/medium businesses who previously could have made due with a few perpetual licenses. The storage was pretty sad even at the time of the switch, so that wasn't a compelling sales point either.

I think Adobe just didn't pull the numbers they were expecting when they switched, and now they're stuck with this model and infrastructure they don't know what to do with.
Could you please point me to them? Mostly for curiosity, and maybe add my two cents, as someone who constantly feels this need in a specific community.
Yes, but the absurdity is in the state of the publications market, as the current top story talks about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17007036.

Since HN would be much worse off without articles from NYT, WSJ, New Yorker, Economist, and others, I don't know what a better policy would be.
I just checked the illustrator website. One year costs 287,77€. So it's only cheaper if you updated at least every two years. But I use my software a lot longer than that.

Software used to be an investment. At university, our physics department had a lot of old computers standing around, whose only purpose was to run some specific legacy software that was no longer maintained, but still worked perfectly.

During my time there, I convinced the theoretical physics department to buy a few Illustrator licenses so we could make better diagrams. I think the academic license cost 300€ per seat. They probably never updated, but I'd assume they still have a PC somewhere with one of those licenses installed, and if someone has a PDF from Inkscape with an incorrect Color Profile, they could still use that machine to fix it.

I think you underestimate how many people use old software out there. Sure, we tech folks update every year, but people who work outside of the tech bubble don't always upgrade a system that's working perfectly fine.
The history of cron is indeed fascinating. But I think you interpreted the word "standard" too literally. I meant "the most commonly-encountered and well-known cron implementation to date."
A model I really like is the one IntelliJ uses. They encourage you to buy a subscription. But when you buy a year at once, you get a "perpetual fallback license" such that you can always keep using the version that is current when you buy: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...

That means I always will have access to my projects and to the level of functionality I start with. But I keep getting upgrades as long as I keep paying, and they get the steady revenue stream that means they don't have to play weird marketing games.
It works for Adobe, ReSharper or MSDN because people make their livelihoods off it. It makes less sense when it's a utility (window management) or tangential to your actual revenue stream (keeping notes).
> Unfortunately they don't have a launch pad they can blow up on purpose to demonstrate that for NASA

Why can't NASA provide one for such purposes? Safety systems should be tested.
Yep, exactly. Even the designer of the SNES version (Shinji Mikami - who became most famous for his work on Resident Evil) preferred the Genesis version because Aladdin used a sword in the Genesis version and not in the Super Nintendo version.

Apparently from what I understand Sega secured the license for Aladdin and enlisted Virgin Games to do the development. At the same time I guess Capcom owned the general rights to publish Super Nintendo games with Disney characters, so they developed the own Aladdin game.
I get good free coffee (and avocado toast!) at work, but thanks for the personal attack.
>Today’s consumers though have significantly higher standards than the original users of the web. Consumers want immersive experiences, well-designed pages with fonts, graphics, photos, and videos coming together into a compelling format.

do they really want these immersive experiences? Do consumers even have a choice?
My bad, it's fixed now. Thanks!
how do you get them to keep paying you the 30 weekly fee? how long do they have to pay it for?
No, John Williams Did Not Rip Off Dvorak
This.

Riding crowded mass transit and living in apartments with your neighbors 4" away should be a choice and there should exist reasonably priced alternatives. The target is a society so wealthy that the median person can own a home where they want and commute in their luxury car if that's what they want to do.

(And before everyone complains about pollution I would like to point out that achieving that level of wealth is so far off that home heating/cooling and transportation are likely to be basically all electric and the grid will be what determines the environmental impact of that)
California is too big to do state-level regulation. For Bay Area homes this is pretty insignificant and possibly positive (sometimes regulation might be more efficient), but adding $20-30k to houses in less-expensive parts of the state is crazy.

This should have been done at the local or regional level, if at all. California should remain one state, probably, but add regional regulatory entities between counties and the state.
This is a great idea. Can I apply with the following profile?

Entrepreneur currently working on scaling a startup I founded a year ago.
Have a list of business ideas would like to pursue. Assembling a team is the biggest challenge.

Have skills in taking a product from idea to market fit. (technical + marketing)
Seems like those stones are harder to steal than Bitcoin from the average exchange :D
I feel like this might be a good thing. Money is a powerful mechanism of transferring the percieved value of goods. If anything, this might cause good quality content to live on.
Of course, there's the transition period during which free content has the potential weeding out the "quality" content.
I forget who, but in (99% sure) Werner Herzig's Lo and Behold there's a (Stanford?) professor who says when they first did some MOOC they had all the kids in the Stanford course taking it as well, and of the 50,000 or whatever number of people taking the course, the top Stanford student finished like #430 in the course.
Outside Jupyter Notebook Gitea supports all of these plus is managed by a community team not a singular maintainer with commit access (last I checked).

A good product is not defined by having a feature list.
California the liberal pro envoirmentalists.

The effects of their policy. High carbon output. High cost of living. High cost of energy. And as little bonus, water shortages.

Bad in every possible way for poor people living in California. Its truly sad state, specifically because all of these problems have extremly simple solutions.

- Don't only force renewables, but rather allow all forms of new energy that are better then the current (don't close nuclear plants for example). This is also better for prices.

- Allow more house building. No brainer.

- Make a proper water market with block pricing so poor people have basically free water and water is directed where it is sensable. Farmers SHOULD consider water cost when making a choice of crops. People should pay to have a green garden and/or clean their car every day.
Cox has blocked port 80 for residential customers for a long time, probably since around when @home went away.

https://www.cox.com/residential/support/internet-ports-block...

They don't block 443 though
>Because of this, more people will decide to live in Texas instead of California, where they'll run their air conditioners 10 months out of the year in their huge, inefficient houses which draw power from coal plants.

I think the parts of Texas and California with tech jobs are... not substitutable for a large part of the tech workforce on political/social grounds.

I do agree that higher density and public transit would help make California better by my standards more than requiring rooftop solar... but at least in the higher density parts of California where I am? I don't think requiring rooftop solar will make much difference. If you have a large multi story complex, adding rooftop solar won't do a lot, but it also isn't going to add significantly to the cost of the building, just 'cause there isn't much roof compared to the rest of the building.

In the high density parts of California that I want to live in, single family homes are already the domain of the rich. Personally, that's okay with me; I don't need a single family home, and I think we should be focusing on building more condos in the high density parts of the state, and as I said, requiring the roofs to be covered with solar isn't going to significantly change the cost of building those higher density buildings.
Or use a Powerwall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Powerwall
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On the other hand, there's a million different competing not-microsoft-word text editors for writers. Whereas there's no real alternatives to adobe or microsoft products if you need them for your career.
What was your bill prior to installing solar? (Trying to understand what you're saving per month)
> Ive used blendle. I wish there was a browser extension that would detect paywalls and let me use blendle to see the article.

I designed such a system in 2012 and was granted a patent for it late last year. I asked a professional about what to do next and the advice was "wait until someone is infringing". Not hugely satisfactory.

I wanted to build the scheme described in the article. My goal was: fix the internet. The way it's paid for breaks it. Fix the money and the rest would follow.

Everyone who's thought about this problem for more than 10 minutes has hit on the same basic business model. I hit on it in 2008, I wasn't the first. Since then I've watched business after business fail in this area. The problem has never been the technology and I'm not sure if a successful shared scheme will ever emerge.
Non-standard ports, port knocking and similar things work before anything reaches sshd; so they can mitigate vulnerabilities in sshd. Obviously a non-standard port is the weakest fellow in the bunch, but that does not mean the effect is zero. An extra 16 bit key length would obviously never mitigate a sshd vulnerability.

An entirely different effect has been brought up by others already; a non-standard port is enough to evade ~99 % of all automated attacks, therefore you can run at higher log levels and might notice actual attackers earlier.
This seems like a simple problem to solve, by putting the inverter at the periphery of the domestic system.
I’ve been a member of this community a very long time. When content like this makes it to the homepage, it suggests the community thinks it’s good. Part of my responsibility as a member of this community is to try and point out when that is wrong. This post is full of misleading information.

I never said I didn’t respect the person. I said I didn’t respect the information in the post. I really can’t imagine how my remarks suggest that I’m a jerk.

Until I got flagged this was the top comment on the thread. The community seems to agree with my remarks.

I stand by them.
The most-cited authors on wikipedia had no idea
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17005686
Years back, I had a friend from Micronesia. We were at a bar and he was in awe of the bathroom token, as it was round and had a hole in the center.

He told me all about the stone money. When he told me how they would carry these things on their boats, I asked what happens when the boat sinks.

He said that the stone was still considered the owner's money, and was thus understood to be valid payment.
It's something to do, at least.
Hacked together a new website about toy cars
It has session layer behaviour. For the internet stack, that's new. It's UDP but integrated bbr so has rate limiting feedback like TCP.
I strongly disagreed with the same paragraph. "Consumers want immersive experiences, well-designed pages with fonts, graphics, photos, and videos coming together into a compelling format." No, they don't want that, especially not the video, and the rest is just a nice-to-have, not a want-to-have. You WANT consumers to want that, but they don't; it's being forced on them instead. Plain text with the occasional still graphic, on a plain white background, would be just fine.
>. Humanity, and life in general, will survive increased CO2 levels.

In the few past instances when temperatures increased this fast there were mass extinction events.

Yes, life can exist on a warmer earth just fine. But rapid change kills a lot of things.

Scientists don't focus on informing people that the earth used to be much warmer and it was fine, because they are focusing on the fact that rapid change is dangerous.
The paper in question: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00298818/

Cited over 4800 times according to Google Scholar.
I agree with you. This seems like low-hanging fruit in ripe need of plucking.
It's harder to get a frontend engineer to contribute, than the other engineers who do?
> Humanity [...] will survive increased CO2 levels.

I don't know that we can take this as a given. It would have been easier two or three hundred years ago; now we have industrial civilization and 7.3 billion people, the combination giving us an unprecedented ability to do damage to the ecosphere. I can imagine a scenario in which climate change leads to political unrest which leads to wars — we may already be seeing some of this, and it could get a lot worse — that eventually spirals out of control into thermonuclear war. Unlikely? I sure hope so! But I don't think we can rule it out completely.

Sure, the cockroaches will survive. But that's not much consolation.

I think we need to figure out a way for all of humanity to work together on this problem. If we fail to do that pretty soon, I don't think it will bode well for our doing it in the future either. Continued denial and fractiousness will make the nightmare scenario more likely.
For a language that assigns gender to articles (e.g. German) what do you do when you want to be more inclusive?
You could keep the single-family homes if the corporate campuses were spread out into the countryside. There's no good reason why one tech company should be five minutes away from their competitor but three hours away from the nearest affordable housing.
Honesty and the Human Body (2013)
Not to mention, SpaceX wants to do routine suborbital passenger flights with the same rocket they use for flights to Mars. Safety has to be an extremely high priority for that to happen.
Does that matter? It’s all physics. If you think my logic is incorrect, point out where.
Not really as their roofs are extremely expensive when compared to traditional roofing material and solar panels.
They tried several variations for Google Contributor, each less appealing than the last.

More recently they introduced Subscribe With Google.
If anything, it's a nice way of saying you like monopolies, and particularly, ones that you own. If I owned one, I would like it.

More to the point, saying you like moats, probably just means you own some moats.

Everybody loves the moat they own and hates the one they don't own. Every CEO likes the competitive advantage they have, and hates the one their competitor has. Right now Musk is busy slogging his way across a moat, so I wouldn't expect positive feelings.
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1299
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/184

These issues and some others pop up if you search for federated.
When the regulation requires that modifications bring things up to the new code and you've got decades of regulations like that piled up the most reasonable options are touch nothing or rebuild the entire house
There are many good reasons (i.e. traffic, preserving nature) why the Bay Area should not sprawl any further than it already has.
> SpaceX says it is serious about flying people safely

> So we take this extremely seriously

Musk didn't say they don't take it seriously, he said it's not the highest priority.

But also there's a difference between what Space X says and what it does. I don't think we'll fully know the extent of Space X's safety consideration until some astronauts die in take off.

NASA are cautious because they've had people die and that lives long in the memory. Space X engineers haven't had to go through the process of finding out which one of them missed the bug that killed people.
Saw this post a while back, it's absolutely adorable. As someone who forgets what an applicative is sometimes, I can vouch for the fact that it really does get the idea across.
obtuse levels are high here.
goal posts moved on a goal post already moved.
goal post was being moved back
Wish there was one for non engineers
Are we expected to research every URL and find the first to report on it no matter what?

Not always but primary sources are definitely preferred. If it's a science paper split the difference, eg an explainer article may provide valuable context missing from a highly technical paper, but then it's nice to link the paper in the comments.
Maybe we should do what 99% of economists suggest and just tax carbon instead?
So rich people hardly notice the difference, and pensioners die of heat stroke because they can't afford air conditioning?
With the mandate, it will take even longer for the homeowner to breakeven on the solar panel. Another reason why it paid to invest in politicians.
>If they started charging just for use they wouldn't need neither an excuse nor a justification.

Actually they'd need both.

And companies are not so dumb as not to understand this. Any company that started charging or went into a subscription model, offered both excuses and justifications for doing so.

You might be think "it's a free country, it's their product, and they can do anything with it".

Which is true in a trivial way (they're allowed by the law to do anything they like in that area), but it's also wrong.

Wrong in that in practice they're not really free: to survive they are bound to the market and their customers responses.

So they're free only as much as they're OK with pissing their user base and potentially losing sales (or have most of them go for some other product, and kill their own user base -- e.g. Quark xPress vs Adobe Indesign, and tons of other similar examples).
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In general, software has zero marginal cost, so in theory, it's price should fall near zero due to competition. So why is the subscription market behave so different ?

And what can be done about that ?
Definitely selling shovels
Lobster used to be prison food
The original question was: what's the risk, or threat model.

I believe that's been adequately addressed.
This is how California works; privilege old residents over the new.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it is very clearly what California voters want. The idea is that we have these massive boom/bust cycles (that seem to trend upwards) and we want to ensure that those who are already here benefit from the boom times, even at the cost of making things rather harder for the newcomers.

The interesting thing is that... a lot of the older service people I've talked to, barbers, uber drivers, etc... own homes around here that they bought when it was cheap. because of these rules, sure, they can't eat out everyday, but they can continue to live around here, should they so choose, on very small wages. I think that our rent control and our prop 13 and other favoring of existing residents does in part subsidize our service industry; in some ways, I think it's why services around here just aren't as expensive as you would expect, when you consider how much more expensive rent is here (and programers are here) vs. the rest of the country.

I personally think that the economy would be better overall if we just built a lot and then raised the costs of the output of locally produced services in line with rent, e.g. raised service wages in line with programmer wages. But, I do think it's important to understand the majority California view.
Still true of many places in California.
Could you expand a little bit?

I'm from Venezuela, it is not a developing country right now. But it may be in the future.
Or, if you prefer, you're choosing to associate with a higher grade of adversary.
I mean, the fact that paywalls are being introduced in front of previously free content does make this something to be dragged into, not necessarily something that's been walked into. If your habits for 5 years involved following links to free content, and that content still exists but is now paid, you're now losing access to things you previously had -- which is tantamount to force.
>It would be even easier now with the advent of marker-assisted selection as GWASes increasingly turn up the genetic signatures of selection for domestication in cats/dogs/rabbit/foxes/etc.

Do you know if these changes are mammal-generic, or species specific? If the former, it raises a fascinating possibility of making a virus that would domesticate the offspring of an infected mammal.
The current "best wall we know how to make" is sufficiently different from the existing walls that it basically becomes new construction.

Siding or brick, four to six inches of rigid foam overlapping insulation, a fully sealed waterproof, windproof membrane, structural sheathing, 2x4 or 2x6 framing, internal wallboard, latex paint.

Consider the existing state of most of those houses:

Painted sheathing or siding, 2x4 framing, fiberglass batt insulation with kraft paper vapor barrier inside the framing, wall board, latex paint.

Essentially the only piece you get to keep is the 2x4s, assuming you come at it from the inside. If you come at it from the outside, you can do marginally better by keeping the interior walls, but you also have to brace the structure while you replace the exterior sheathing since it's almost always structurally loaded.
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