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Smoke Is Africa’s Quiet Killer. An Entrepreneur Says His Fix Can Make a Fortune
Aren't watches anachronistic, though? It's basically a fashion statement rather than a functional timepiece; we're surrounded by devices that can tell the time for us. A watch's only purpose is wealth/fashion signalling.

I haven't worn a watch since I started carrying a cell phone and it perplexes me why they are still so popular.
Ericsson have both their own PKI infrastructure[0], at least for software integrity checking (however that certificate is valid since March this year, and the CRL[1] it refers to is empty), in addition to using other certificate authorities for everything such as the hosting of websites to internal infrastructure[2]. I suspect it wasn't any of the above - rather it is the PKI that is used in running the IPSec networking done between carrier's RANs and other parts of core network[3], which is probably Ericsson's own internal CA.

[0] https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/enterprise-security/pki

[1] http://crl.ericsson.net/Ericsson_Software_Deliverable_Integr...

[2] https://crt.sh/?q=%.ericsson.net

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Architecture_Evolution
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People buy based on recognizable brand names because it signals you're able to afford something in that price range and know "what's cool".

What's interesting is that some luxury brands's true high end lines are not really profitable (example: haute couture) and are actually supported by the brand's entry level "premium mediocre" products like canvas bags, perfumes, etc. In a way, the true luxury products acts as a marketing expense to bolster brand cachet, so their entry level products are coveted by the masses as status symbols.
I agree, a Total Surveillance system than the most dystopian Sci-Fi movies could barely imagine, a Social Score to keep control over people act & thoughts and now non-consenting Human DNA Experiments to build a stronger race... But unlike with Hitler I'm afraid other countries will not fight it but actually embrace it because this is "progress" (no more diseases and no more terrorism what's not to like right ?)
> Trust but verify

That phrase just distills down to 'verify'.

Or more generously 'verify and extrapolate' but it still lacks trust.
all of the enthusiasts i know hide their watches. it’s about an appreciation for craftsmanship.

edit: i guess i do know a lot of folks that wear a watch for brand status but those aren’t enthusiasts.
Hey Jeremy,

If you're reading this, firstly, thank you! It looks awesome and I have purchased this on UK Amazon to read over the Xmas period. Two points, though:

A) Please generate an HTML version of the Table of Contents and consider putting that on your site, rather than making me guess it's in "First Pages", download a PDF, etc. I think you'd find the return on investment on getting a landing page expert to create a mini-site for the book worth itself many times over...

B) Invest your first sales profits into getting someone to turn this into the epub or mobi your audience are asking for.
Surely no, not at least in the United States.

Are we really going to talk about the internet as though it made all the difference? We're going to forget about:

- The military industrial complex, the backlash against their never-ending wargames and the complete betrayal of American values through the PATRIOT Act

- Legalized bribery via lobbying and Citizens United

- 5 conglomerates controlling all old (but still very relevant) media

- The many great heists of the people's wealth in the form of:

1. Offshoring jobs while diluting public education

2. Tearing up public transport and forcing dependency on a substance that compromises us morally

3. The 2008 bailouts that left the little man to die in a gutter

The old guard entrenched themselves more and more, robbed the people of hope, and gutted the nation's dignity. Now they are co-opting the bloodlust of a humiliated people towards their own advantage.
Whoa I just put on a nicer pair of headphones (Plantronics BackBeat Pro), and I think I might be able to tell the difference between uncompressed audio and 320kbps MP3.

I just did this test and got the first two right: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15168340/lossless-audio-mu...

The third one was really tricky so I had to guess. But the first two were a really clear difference. Uncompressed kind of sounds "fuller" and sharper, and MP3 is a bit flatter. It's a tiny difference but I think I can hear it.
It is not a bad idea but it will probably need an enormous political (mostly I think), economical and technological effort.
Seriously? Western medicine waited 2018 to figure out that psychoanalysis is real?!
Bitcoin is doing much better than all those other scams. Coinbase has lost its credibility in the crypto space long ago, not much risk for them to go all in at this point.
No, they haven't. They really haven't. Minecraft persists.
I track it via Google Analytics -> here's a screenshot of the last few months [0]. Traffic has been pretty steady over time with a few spikes from Hacker News or Twitter mentions. I believe the most recent spike in traffic is related to the 51% attack against Vertcoin [1].

[0] https://i.imgur.com/UwFrpgs.png

[1] https://bitcoinist.com/vertcoin-vtc-51-attack-100k-double-sp...
Tailored shirts also rarely have logos embroidered on them.
BTC is still around $3500, not bad for something that was worth a few hundred three years ago. I'm not willing to call it dead just yet. There are plenty of assets that make little sense to value, and yet they are. The bias here is to assume that cryptocurrency is useless or valueless because the technology isn't all it's hyped up to be, and that is true, but value is not a rational game. Let's wait and see how it develops.
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While I agree with the basic premise of the article (disparaging low-quality goods attached to premium brands), I take exception to two of the examples: Starbucks and premium economy airline seats.

I regularly upgrade to premium economy when I fly for the very real benefits of 1) earlier boarding, ensuring convenient overhead access to my carry-on luggage and 2) extra legroom; I find it's impossible to open and use a laptop with today's shallow seat pitch configurations unless you upgrade.

As for Starbucks, I'm paying a premium (but not much, as a tea drinker) for the amenities: air-conditioning, clean bathrooms, quality furniture. Too many local coffee shops lack these basics.
A recession is due for lots of reasons, like the boom has continued this long because we juiced the economy with a bunch of tax cuts for rich people and companies that are basically a sugar high. At least since we raised interest rates we'll be able to cut them to stimulate the economy. On top of that sugar high we are pushing it down with stupid tariffs on most of our major allies. And growth periods in our history don't usually run this far. I think our future growth in the us will be significantly retarded because of high student loan debt. That gets some attention here at hacker news, but I don't see 'regular people' talking about it much.
Does it matter? There are alternative stores (F-Droid, Amazon, Yalp) and microG for Google login/push notifications.
Wordperfect. The speed of working with it was unparalleled, even compared to current Word. The 'reveal codes' or 'underwater' key was the superfast option to fix layout problems (who hasn't wrestled with tabs and indenting in Word), and it even worked on very large documents. Would pay for it.
What if I'm not "indifferent" to whether my cofounders stay, but also can't see into the future? What if I'd like the option to continue a functional company even if one or more members of my team decide that it isn't a fit?

Why am I more worried about this situation than the ones where my partners conspire against me to steal my stake in the company? Because the situation I'm describing happens all the time, and, as I mentioned upthread, easily happen even when every party is acting in good faith.

ps

I have a pair of friends who went in on a YC company together. The partnership didn't work out; one left to join and eventually lead another YC company, the other stayed. Both founders had strong, liquidity-event exits afterwards (within months of each other, in fact). Nobody foresaw the partnership failing, but this (super ultra common) eventually was handled by the book, and everyone won in the end. I'm, again, having a hard time seeing the net downside of vesting.
> a customer went without being able to use that feature.

Well, by definition, a feature that takes 2 months to build takes 2 months to build. Shipping part of the feature early doesn't provide feedback for the finished product. It provides feedback for the incomplete feature. How valuable is that feature?

In addition to that,a feature that takes 2 months to build will take longer if you are releasing multiple sub versions. You have to account for actually making it production ready, and releasing it, and handling errors and feedback.

This is why experience matter. Was your feeling of control and happiness worth shipping half-finished, substandard product to your customers?
Good luck getting the customer to provide feedback on a <2 week cycle. Ime. customer feedback and/or approval is a serious dev bottleneck.
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Exactly.

Domestic production is regulated and certified by the US government, transported through short supply chains subject to auditing. Tampering with food supplies is very difficult to execute and harshly punished when inevitably detected. Food safety and consumer confidence are a high priority for commercial and public interests... you have never worried about watered down milk, you shouldn't worry about 100% domestic olive oil.

Compared to imported goods... foreign governments are trusted to do their job before goods make their way through long and slow international supply chains. Plenty of time for undetected tampering before goods make it to American distributors. Tracking down diluted olive oil across an ocean is difficult, the other side has plausible deniability, the risk/reward of the crime is much better.

I'm not saying our oil is better - just trustworthy. You get what the label says.
It is the responsibility of the product owner to write requirements in such a way that also conveys the big picture. It is the responsibility of the engineer to understand the big picture before implementing requirements. Perhaps Jira could be improved to encourage better communication about the big picture. I’m sure there are plenty of other ways to do that already, though.
> Populism is a precise way of appealing to basic emotions of a population by creating an "us vs them" narrative

Doesn't calling right-wingers "populists" do the very same?
Things that I plug in:

- headset adapter (no headsets use the Apple TRRS plug)
- scanner
- USB keyboard
- USB mouse
- foot pedals (designed for transcription tools, I use for gaming)

I could get wireless mouse and keyboard but my experience has been a never ending dance of swapping and charging batteries, which is probably why Apple moved to integrated batteries.
The tirade against Apple in the middle article is pretty silly. Android OS has a terrible bug that means you can’t listen to your preferred music on your device. iOS does not have this bug. As someone who uses and develops for both OS, this seems like a no-brainer to me.
Strange timing. Most of the cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin look terrible right now. Why get into the lower-tier ones?
My community has quite a few businesses that gladly take bitcoin, at whatever valuation. Unfortunately when the price is on the upswing people don't want to spend it because it'll be more profitable to hold it, and when it's holding steady they don't want to spend it because they feel it could take off at any instant, and if it's crashing they don't want to spend it because that would lock in their losses and they'd rather wait for it to recover.

Hopefully one day it will stabilize enough to be worthwhile as a currency. We're certainly not there yet, but it's improving. Despite the spectacular fall in values, this isn't as severe a crash as has happened before, percentage-wise.
> Isn’t agile development supposed to be fundamentally different from waterfall development, rather than simply replacing one big waterfall with a thousand little ones?

A thousand little waterfalls is fundamentally different from one big waterfall. One major issue with waterfall is that one mistake anywhere in the process can derail the entire project, and those mistakes are not always apparent until very far in.

If your waterfalls all complete in say, under 2 months, then you don't lose any more than 2 months with any single item that is a total failure (partial failures can be even less disruptive).

I'm not the biggest fan of the word "agile" but this idea seems like a very important point of many things that call themselves agile, and it damages the ethos of the author's argument to have such a basic misunderstanding.
Buy a used iPhone 6S. Would be about $200.
I've been in a different industry for 8 years now, but previously I was in the travel / airline industry working on backend booking systems: it was surprising at the time to me how much stuff was still done using things like VT320 terminals.

Interestingly back in ~2008, Amadeus did actually introduce some new XML web APIs for doing things, but they were so badly designed and slow that we ended up still using console terminal text entering / scraping as it was much faster for performing the same tasks (searching for flights, querying them and booking them).

And this terminal text entering / scraping code was pretty complicated as it had to cope with pagination on the terminals, scrolling text fields on the terminals, positioning, etc. Obviously only supported ASCII as well.
Export the page in question to a raster image format like PNG at a high resolution, use an erasing tool on it, re-import the whole thing as a high-res raster (not OCR).

In the past 15 years I have seen so many poorly redacted PDF from government agencies, where they just draw a black box over the PDF-native text.
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The autobiography of Lonely Planet founders Tony & Maureen Wheeler gives a fascinating glimpse of this era, and turns into a startup story along the way. Highly recommended for Hacker News readers who also like travel!

Unlikely Destinations aka Once While Travelling aka The Lonely Planet Story (no, I don't know why it has three different names/editions...)

https://www.amazon.com/Unlikely-Destinations-Lonely-Planet-S... (not a referral link)

Disclaimer: I used to work for LP back in the day, and had the pleasure of meeting Tony & Maureen on several occasions.
It's quite hard to find a merchant that accepts a cryptocurrency so unpopular, that a 51% attack on it is relatively cheap. And any exchange that really cares about the security of its funds has very long confirmation times for such cryptoassets and/or monitors those chains for any suspicious activity so that the withdrawals can be frozen if anything happens.

Not saying it's impossible to do a successful 51% attack, just that it's a lot less trivial than it might seem after checking out a site like https://www.crypto51.app/
Of course we need to innovate. Billions of people aren't going to voluntarily go back to living in terrible poverty.
There is so much wrong with this article it isn't funny. The lack of self awareness is enough that Eugene could flunk a Turing test and would be complained about as lousy writing if he was placed in a movie.

The whole damn point of the Fashion Industry is to fabricate an experience of luxury and exclusivity in the first place! Otherwise they would just be commodity textiles with a far smaller margin - the ones any early developing country can produce with a little bit of investment.

Then there is the frankly incoherent bashing of millennials for not spending money on the "real high end" while complaining about them splurging and calling them entitled. Look do you want them to buy your overpriced crap or to join the list of victim entitled industries "killed by millennials"?

From a guy who feels entitled to profits at a large mark up, and setting the standards of taste for everbody. Who feels the place of the customer is to serve the merchant. Talk about projecting like IMAX....

As for why the fashion signaling niche has been taken up by logoed commodities: tt is the economy stupid. It is no wonder people are going for an accessible "high end" when essential expenses and debts related to them are high. People splurge a bit for mental health - done within their means it can be healthy even.

Plus even those who are better off can get dirty looks for conspicious consumption outside a sufficently matched setting - and not even in an envious sour grapes way like "I would totally get a Tesla/Buggaratti if I could afford it." but "What kind of asshole spends $50k on a handbag when even $500 is overkill? That is more than my car!".
That's very difficult in normal times (vcs mostly pick losers, just get a few winners and they are doing good), so for regular people we can't handle that much loss or get good returns on winners. When businesses stop expanding (cause there's a recession!) it's even more impossible for startups to succeed.
I'm familiar with the definition but I learned today that I was mistaken in the translation. The articles I had previously read and linked said bitcoin was legal tender but the actual legal document provides a slightly but importantly different definition.

If you travel abroad you may have to exchange your currency to pay for a meal, because your coin is not treated equality to legal tender locally, and the defining characteristic is that it settles the debt at the time of exchange. I believe that's a function that cryptocurrencies fulfil by design and if the court states they are to be treated equally to legal tender that seems to prove my point.
Excellent post! The author notes that 320kbps mp3 was transparent in his testing. 320kbps Vorbis (Spotify “Extreme” setting) is even better.
You can do two editions, a color and a black and white edition. I buy a Game and Puzzle Design Journal that offers exactly that, through Lulu: http://gapdjournal.com/issues/. I still pay the extra for the color version because I think it's better, but for those who don't care as much, they can pay less and get it cheaper that way.

As a price comparison, their most recent edition is a compilation of six issues at 524 pages. The black and white edition is 30 euros and the color edition is 85 euros, so a 55 euro difference between the two editions, of the same content.
Absent a development towards a more federal EU, it's time to save the rest of it by getting rid of the euro currency. At this point it's a farce that produces destitution and drives discontent with the entire EU.
Economy Plus seating seems a lot more utilitarian. Also Acela on the Amtrak. There's a market for things that give a bit more convenience and comfort relative to what those buying solely on price are getting. While not providing a product that's significantly higher cost and price--especially to the point where paying for it becomes an issue even for many business travelers.
But then how would users get to Facebook? /s

You could have that plugin have a database of sites and also provide easy links for those sites that try to hide those functions.
Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen
At the end of the 90s backpacking in Asia wasn't all that different. I did this for several months at a time without a cell phone, internet cafés were very slow and unreliable and there was no good way to book budget accommodation anyway.

Lonely planet was the only decent source of info but it didn't cover it all.

I spent some time on islands in the Mekong in Laos where there was only a few hrs of electricity per day and no connection to the outside world. To leave I took a motorised canoe to the mainland and then found out the next flight out of Pakse was in a few days, so I spent several days there doing basically nothing.

Now that kind of time wasting just seems almost unfathomable.

Every where I arrived I had no bookings, just a few addresses from Lonely Planet that you'd have to reach to inquire if they had free rooms.

I've rarely been as happy as I was travelling around there with just a bag of clothes on my back. Good times.
You need a mixture of assets. If you don't need your investments to live on (cause you've got a job and an affordable place to live), then follow the standard policy of different categories of stocks, plus other areas.

In 2007-2009 I noticed that I lost as much in my retirement accounts as I put into them in those years, Ie the value at the end of the year after putting 20k was about the same as at the start. That was something that really reminded me that it was great and lucky to have a good job as a software engineer.
I'm not arguing that BTC hasn't returned value to earlier investors.

I'm arguing that cryptocurrencies don't have the same economic model as most startups - which is essentially the expected future value generated by their operations discounted to the presented.

There are startups within that definition that have a low probability of achieving such - but it's the same fundamental economic model that applies to Apple that applies to a seed-stage biotechnology startup.

This doesn't extend to cryptocurrencies - given that currencies don't generate operating cash flows.
Which is less secure: turning off updates and potentially falling victim to zero day in the wild, or turning on updates and having Microsoft install arbitrary crapware on your computer without your explicit consent?
Wat.

> we're puking web and electron everywhere ... literally only because developers are lazy

No. This is done because developers are slow and expensive. Reusing most of your web app as a desktop app, same for every platform, saves a lot of money to companies.

> you're consistently asked to pay a monthly fee to access this functionality literally only because companies are lazy

No. This is because companies want recurring revenue, not one-time sale. It's vastly easier to get you into ("only $3.99/mo" vs "only $199.95 for lifetime of use"), and it keeps dripping every month.

There's not a bit of laziness here, only business shrewdness.
It’s not that kind of computer. It calculates astronomical events.