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At least Apple didn’t have a funeral for windows phone, switch the platform half way through pissing off every developer, stuff it full of telemetry and unreliable crap then can the whole platform and jump on the cloud all while deprecating specific handsets randomly for the hell of it.

Microsoft are utter and total schizophrenic clowns in comparison.

I spent years betting on windows phone getting mugged over and over again. My iPhone just bloody works. No other vendor has managed that yet.
Looks like they just cracked it in the comments - a bitcoin wallet stealer for an app that had it deep in the dependency tree.
My coop is outfitted with one of these automatic door kits: https://chickendoors.com/product/right-standard-pullet-shut-...

It opens at daylight, closes at dusk. Adjustable tolerances in either direction which I need to adjust occasionally but not often, like after DST changes to allow the door to stay open longer while the chickens get used to the shorter days, ensuring they can get inside before the door shuts, with darkness falling earlier. Small solar charger and battery keep it operational.

I understand the impulse of the author to design something complicated, but practically speaking there is no need to remotely control the opening of the coop door over the internet, especially if you have a photoresistor already to detect daylight.
It shouldn't be that hard for people to understand that Musk has enemies in the most wealthy and powerful industries on Earth in automobiles, oil, and aerospace, and as such, creating a negative impression of him through astroturfing on social media and forums is a given. While he and his companies have flaws, the negativity is vastly out of proportion, and most either have an agenda or are unwittingly parroting those that have an agenda.
This is one case where cover.me makes much more sense. I suspect within the next half generation or so the 'only. com' is for real business will be over.
Awesome progress, but I feel like the stellerator design won't be scalable/feasible :/
What are some certs that you believe are worth investing in (i.e. ones that do require hands-on learning)?
Amusing note, The "what is the common thread" slide literally shows the promised land. It's a picture of Ben Gurion Airport in Israel.
If you can program computers you can definitely understand startup finance. It sounds more complex than it really is! Unfortunately, all the jargon confuses people and they wind up getting screwed...
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Extensive evidence like the nearly 30 page indictment citing 12 Russian intelligence officers filed by Mueller? [1]

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/us/politics/mueller-indic...
The reason that my devices belong to me.
> You are getting a significant title bump that moves your career forwards.

To add to this. The title of "early member of <insert famous startup company>" holds a lot of weight in SV circles. Whether or not you legitimately helped those companies in the early days, it's a strong signal that you are valuable. And those <insert famous startup company> doesn't have to be a company that necessarily had a huge exit or has a strong economic reputation. For example - early engineer of Yahoo? Ya, people probably think you're worth one's salt.

IMHO - I think this is the main driver people join startups. It's taboo, but vanity feels much more tangible than equity.
NPM is just a mess, and the whole culture and ecosystem that surrounds it. Micropackaging does make a little bit of sense at least in theory for the web, where code size ought to matter, but in practice it's a complete shitshow, and leads to these insane dependency paths and duplication and complete impossibility to actually keep abreast with updates to dependencies, much less seriously vet them.

The insidious threat is that these bad practices will start leaking out of Javascript world and infect other communities. Fortunately most of them are not as broken by default as JS, and have blessed standard libraries that aren't so anemic, so there is less for this type of activity to glom on to.
>>I get the feeling this is something they always wanted, but the software business model had to catch up to that need.

It's more that the need manifested itself with the economic crash, as companies realized they would rather keep as much cash as possible in the bank in order to more successfully navigate the uncertain economic climate. Subscription model satisfies that risk aversion.
What are some of your favorite MOOCs/certs? Slash what do you deem to be some of the "best" or most worth for its ROI?
You can't be cool if you have any other thing than an iPhone/Macbook. It's as simple as that.
Don't get me wrong, I believe the author's heart is in the right place. I find his willingness to be inclusive and get other people involved refreshing actually, but the problem is that he should know better. He's seemingly used npm enough to know that there is no mechanism within npm to notify downstream modules that he is transferring the package to someone else (and that there is now a new security risk that they must re-evaluate). The course of action taken was simply not thought through. I'll leave it to others to explain what the appropriate course of action should have been, but keep in mind that society is built on trust, otherwise you have nothing to build on. You're too busy doing every job instead of one that builds upon others.
I have... but you have to be within the first 10 employees or so.
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I've been using the same system for almost 5 years now, with no real problems. Has more than paid for itself by now.

I didn't switch to OpenHAB though, but instead hacked their original desktop control software, which is actually a Java web app with a localhost-bound Tomcat, to make it runnable on a headless Linux box and bind to the LAN IP. This way I have their control panel available constantly and remotely. Works surprisingly well and stable, given that this mode of operation was never intended.

Their actually-intended remote control path (via a server provided by the manufacturer) is crap however, very slow reaction time, unreliable and you somehow have to pay a subscription after a trial period.
> They will always tell you if one of their recipe contains a particular ingredient (of which you might be allergic), and whether there are vegan options.

I authored the article. People ask us about our software all the time. We answer their questions. We have a post on our views on privacy, how we collect and use data etc. We give people the option to opt-out of data collection. Our email list is strictly opt-in. It seems that you are fine trusting the people that provide your food, but not your software.
Great article, thank you for sharing!
One use case I can think of is heavy real time audio processing.

In such an arrangement every millisecond of latency counts.
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>But to the conservationists, spraying glyphosate is a minor interference compared with the aggressive upheaval caused by ploughing.

This is a pretty huge claim without any cited evidence. Farmers I've talked to are very concerned with glyphosate and the chemical as been banned in France https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/29/france-committed-to-glyp... . God save us if the bees all die.
But in the absence of a trusted, well-structured organization, authority rests on the shoulders of those using the library as a dependency.
We use a number of AWS LightSail servers for SFTP today, which mostly sit idle.

Will definitely adopt this!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna looks weird. Source 1 has another image of a more complex antenna.
That's a significant goalpost move. From debating particular mechanisms and postulated inevitability of AI, to assuming full blown strong Church-Turing-Deutsch principle and moving from there. Along with moving whole discussion from practical concerns into philosophy and really arguing from the thesis, at which point most people lose interest.
Sounding in here - I bought the domain. Let's start with it was a lot of money, and to the credit of some of the folks here it remains to be seen whether or not the purchase was prescient or not from a ROI perspective. Whichever way it goes, the purchase won't be the reason that we succeed, or fail. Reasons for the purchase are enumerated in the article, but more than anything else, we're in the trust business and our customers cross-reference our web presence before spending thousands of dollars with us via our apps. Insurance is a business with consumer scale, and best in class SaaS-like economics (very low churn, predictable CF) - in this context, we became more comfortable pulling the trigger.
Makes me wonder if there's a business opportunity. Make your own version of NPM, based off of the real NPM, but some level of auditing for package updates. Don't report suspicious commits from new contributors right away, that sort of thing. Charge companies a few hundred $ a month to use your site instead of NPM, and they can update packages at will without risk of picking up something nasty.

Then again, the fact that nobody has done this already suggests that it wouldn't work.
I figured kllrnohj was referencing the fact that OpenBSD clears data when it's allocated. That you can do from WASM pretty easily.

Additionally WASM is moving towards multiple linear regions, which should allow mmap/munmap like functionality.

And in the context of OpenSSL, this kind of fanciness in some libc's that'll make all sorts of syscalls randomly is exactly why they wrote their own allocator.
It's a narrative flourish irrelevant whose accuracy is irrelevant to the pitch, except that it sounds attractive to say "customers want this" vs "customers are powerless to reject this". For a business, it matters that the trend exists; the cause doesn't matter.
The average American camper weighs 5,200lbs [1] completely empty. Once it's loaded with water, fuel, and gear, it's about 1,500 lbs heavier. I encourage you to find a 1.8L engine that will tow a 6,000+ lb trailer over a mountain pass.

I'm guessing the next argument will be "yeah but no one needs a 5,000 lb camper" to which I will say "why do you need a camper or car at all if you're trying to save the environment" to which the response will be "yeah but" and then I'll come back with "but no" and then I'll get yelled at by `dang so let's skip all that and say someone buying a 3.6L engine they don't need is a bad thing but so is the self-righteous idea that what works for you must always work for everyone else, and then agree that we're not going to solve the world's climate problems with throwaway HN comments.

[1] https://camperreport.com/camper-weight/
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Sweet! There are so many brilliant & creative people in the Node community. I'm positive there are some innovative ways to approach this problem.
Good point. Perhaps instead of "traditional" I should have used a different word. Here I'm referring not to documented formal processes (which I almost never see used in the wild) but to what I have seen, which mainly seem to be folk wisdom. So tradition in that sense.

As I said, I think a lot of this folk tradition arises out of the practical needs of developers. They are asked to build a hazy thing; in trying to figure out what that thing is it's easy to reach for concrete representations, like business forms and database tables. And of the class structure in object-oriented languages, which is obviously noun-focused.

I suspect another source of difference between what I see used and most formal processes is that the most formal processes tend to come out of a waterfall tradition. There's a stop-the-world-for-months aspect to them that I think is incompatible with a lot of what people do today. Certainly with the dynamic world of startups, but also with the short-cycle processes that modern tools enable for everybody.

I could totally see using Event Storming and Story Mapping as two one-day activities as part of a kickoff week for a new project. Structured analysis, not so much.
I believe it was $50 for the door and the remaining $50 was for the parts.
There is a video available here as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtf-1JibORg
I specifically said that use of force is allowed when stopping a threat to your life. Your property is not your life.

> The vast majority of self-defense situations involve the threat of simple material loss

What are you citing here?
Semver seems like a huge problem here, blindly pulling in changes is just asking for a lot trouble, intentional or not.

I'd also say NPM's centralized naming structure is also problematic, people don't want to update 1000's of modules to some new latest version of X which was forked and is now maintained, so it's handed off like this.
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Where is the company incorporated and what is its legal structure? Do you have its articles of incorporation?

I am assuming that it is not a publicly traded company?

EDIT: grammar
You can't even sell merchandise on Amazon without significant risk they will like your numbers enough to muscle you out:

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/b?node=10112675011
You're right that SD cards aren't fast enough. That's why high-end DSLRs support the much faster XQD standard. There are no DSLRs (and precious few if any still cameras, period) that can do 150fps, but 15-20fps isn't at all uncommon in professional lines, and most cameras that support that frame rate also have deep enough buffers and fast enough XQD interfaces that they can shoot raw at full framerate for 10-15 seconds before they fill the buffer and slow down.
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The best thing to do with the highest ROI is your own projects for a portfolio, ideally things which haven't been done before (e.g. in the context of data science/ML, not the Titanic dataset or sentiment analysis of Trump's tweets).

Everyone has their own learning style, but I stopped doing MOOCs once I realized that doing work in a similar domain is more practical.
Latest Windows 10 update breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 apps in general
In-camera exposure stacking has been a standard feature in DSLR firmware for some years now.
> And for the foreseeable future, Windows is the only OS for PCs outside of MacOS which is more of a luxury product

Don't forget ChromeOS. The recent retail discount frenzy in the US (Black Friday and Cyber Monday) has opened my eyes to just how popular and affordable Chromebooks are.

Edit: To clarify, I know several people (including on HN) who are taking advantage of these discounts because they use Chromebooks. Obviously discounts themselves aren't indicative of popularity.
I think I'd rather not have a dependency on Embarcadero.
You are feeding a troll. Please don't.
Amazing moderation, amazing response. Wow! Kudos to both of y'all.
The thing is, nobody really uses, or has to use, the Windows Store. Which is decidedly not the case for iOS.

The better comparison on PC is Steam, which takes basically the same cut as Apple takes.
There is hardly anything FP about Kotlin.
Unfortunately, the irony is that the only way companies get a quarter trillion in cash laying around is by making investments that they understand. I suspect Apple has no way of making good investment decisions in relation to fusion energy.
> Unlike personal debt the fed can just print the money.

A part of why the Fed (and the same is generally true of independent central banks generally) exists (and why the Fed system is comprised of large private banks) is to provide a check (and, more important, confidence among lenders) against Congress simply monetizing the debt by separating the locus of decision making for monetary policy from that for fiscal policy.
It is possible to install the Google App Store on a Fire, and does not require rooting it, but it is a pain and most people wouldn't bother.
I agree that they really are just to lock people into the Amazon ecosystem.
Lots of tiny dependencies.
The conversation came up because I was trying to fathom why a company would sit on billions of dollars when they could make more billions with it

They already are, in the cheapest, riskless way possible: those massive cash stashes are sustaining, or even boosting, their valuations.

When a company grows too big, it's in its best interest, as in investors best interest, not to spend a few billions on an initiative that could lead nowhere.
Another aspect of this is that if you join an early stage startup and work there 5-10 years without any new equity grants (such as the annual refreshers that many companies give) while the company grows and does new funding rounds, then you're getting screwed badly.
I'd love to see something for plain vanilla FTP.

Many enterprises still use it, would love to see AWS support that as well.
Pretty much every single one that fell through internal unrest. For a dictatorship to fall, it's security apparatus needs to stop performing its function of suppressing dissent and revolt.

Humans aren't machines. The police of a dictatorship, at some point, will have to confront an order to gun down protesters and the like to preserve the regime. Even if they're ideologically committed, they might recoil the order to kill and let the regime fall.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/02/protests-how-d...

> And the use of violence by the regime under challenge, argue both Petersen and Sadiki, acts as a further crucial trigger for escalation by protesters against the regime. It is not simply because the state use of violence - whether in Bahrain or Romania, Egypt or Libya - acts as reminder of its brutal nature at a time when it is more vulnerable than it realises. It is also because the use of state violence confronts those still part of the state with a moral and strategic question: whether to tolerate the use of force and hope the regime survives, or peel away and join the opposition.

> "It is the other side of the story to that of those rebelling," says Petersen. "There are different considerations for those in the military, police or special forces, defined by their role. They are required to make a choice: whether they can switch sides and hope the people accept their new narrative in the new world after the regime, or stick by it to the end.

> "Whether you defect to the opposition depends on these differential kinds of moral calculus. Ordinary soldiers, for instance, have their own calculus. And if they decide not to fire on protesters that sends a signal to the higher-ups in the military. Then pretty soon you might see the interest of the military changing."

> Petersen, however, has one caveat. That this kind of negotiation in an organisation like the military does not necessarily hold true if there is the early and "crushing" use of violence.
I genuinely love my Smart TV. Its nice having the TV know about every input option, and not having to fool around d with multiple remotes.
*The VCs/creditors would have an asset.
please no. ftp is a security nightmare.
I'm an engineer on the RoboMaker team, I would love to hear feedback about our service.
I joined GitLab as #29. My work life balance has never been this good. I've been working here for ~3 years, my benefits have been excellent, I have learned so much. GitLab may be an anomaly and YMMV, but it has been the best company I've ever worked for, period. Nothing has comes close. In the end I love what I do. I don't agree with this post.
At least you don't pay for Apple products by having your personal information sold off, all so you can be manipulated into buying stuff you wouldn't have otherwise.
I really don't know what part of opposing GDPR is disproved by this example. Actually, the one of the points was that it is blurred, and can be applied too arbitrary. The story clearly proves it, even if this time rulers were so merciful.
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Maybe you will be interested in a library I wrote:

https://github.com/Dean177/jest-to-match-shape-of

I had the same issue, types don't mean anything if they don't align with the data that your app is consuming. My solution was that matcher combined with some integration tests.
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It’s important to understand the heritage of the SDC algorithms.

They also provide you with a lot of different perspectives from a practical system design level.
Oh, do you have a link to this threat to Zuck? Had not heard about that.
Not really: http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
Can I ask, who exactly is an ally of the USA at this point?

Up here in Canada, and from talking to my friends in the UK, nobody is a fan of that country, for reasons like:

- It's corrupt-at-best[1], ignorant[2], contradictory[3] and racist[4]-at-best leadership, not to mention the fact that the general populace was ignorant enough to vote for that leadership, even if the popular vote[7] showed someone else won, the corrupt voting system of the states, which allows anyone to be bribed, essentially, means that this turd keeps his office.

- It's constant placement of self-importance above all other countries ('America is the greatest country in the world!'),

- Its tendency for meaningless war[5] - to the point where it actually made an attack on it's own country in the form of 9/11, something (I will pull up the source for this to validate) the majority of people outside the USA know/believe to be true.

- The consistent denial of climate change, and the instance on making it worse - check out the climate change report the US govt. cleverly hid by releasing on Black Friday, for example.[6]

Are there any other countries who, right now, especially under Trump's 'leadership', actually think the USA is OK? The fact that I've been able to pull up 5 sources confirming these things is...disturbing at best.

No offence to anyone who lives in the states, I'm just expressing what I've seen the rest of the world express, and backing it up with references, so I don't get a slew of downvotes.

I imagine my opinion won't be popular to those who live there, but it is quite a real thing, especially the climate change stuff. That's just awful.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/opinion/trump-administrat...
[2] https://www.vox.com/2018/10/14/17975644/trump-60-minutes-int...
[3] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump...
[4] https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/media/nbc-trump-immigration-a...
[5] https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-us-militarys-streng...
[6] https://globalnews.ca/news/4695268/al-gore-trump-climate-cha...
[7] https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary...
This doesn't seem like a significant difference to me. You can catch all throwables and handle them the same way. Ironically, it feels worse to ignore the added exception type information so it's rare to see errors handled generically this way.
Clearly, Apple is undervalued.
But they also make is easier to migrate to Windows. .NET Core is a similar play.

Microsoft can no longer rely on Windows alone to pull developers and products to Windows so instead they're trying to attract developers to build for any & every platform on Microsoft's stack and support Windows as a by product and maybe choose Azure as well.

So in a sense they've switched to a carrot model rather than a stick model.