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Borland got greedy. Up to Delphi 5, the IDE was something anyone could afford at $99.95 with the cheapest option and going up from that up to $1000+ for the "architect" version. In Delphi 6 they made the cheapest option only for non-commercial use, still at $99.95 and the next tier was a few hundred. In Delphi 7 they made the non-commercial version free, but then they got distracted by .NET and started rising their prices hard to the point where the $1000+ version was the cheapest one until a few years ago. Then a few years ago they made a "cheap" $350 version but the license allowed only for $5000 annual income or something silly like that (they changed the limit a couple of times IIRC) and then you had to buy the next most expensive option which was several hundred dollars more. Lately they made that version free but the limit is still there. To add on that, most of the community doesn't really believe in the free versions since ever since the Delphi 7 Personal Edition they keep discontinuing them (they made another in 2006, based on the slowest and most buggy version which wasn't exactly a great idea) and then bring them back years later with different limitations (and always the reason for discontinuing them is that it didn't work - as if they'd magically become popular in a few months for releasing a free yet extremely limited version).

Add to that that after Delphi 7, which by many was considered the most stable and generally best version, they got distracted by .NET and Linux (with a very hacky project, Kylix, that never got any traction in the Linux community) and decided to make Delphi a .NET product, rewrote the IDE with a highly unpopular (at the time) interface with a lot of bugs and generally a much worse experience for developers and you get the idea.

They basically did the worst thing they could ever do at every single front: abandoned their core audience (Delphi was very popular with smaller developers, especially in Europe) to go after enterprise customers, closed the gates to new blood by increasingly rising the prices, created a sense of unreliability by changing their minds every few years, replaced a stable product with a buggy mess and drove a lot of their skilled people to leave over the years.

The same stuff apply to C++ Builder too, btw. They actually lost a chance here - C++ Builder could have been a the IDE to use for tools in the game industry that relies a lot on custom tooling and some developers did try to use it (e.g. Bioware and i personally worked on another company that also considered it) but Borland/Inprise wasn't very cooperative and they left their C++ compiler stagnate (in our case the compiler simply couldn't build the codebase due to outdated standards support).

Delphi and C++ Builder are products that you can't help but wonder what they could have been at the hands of a company with more competent management.
If it's not end-to-end encrypted, it's not secure in the sense OP clearly means.
And while Trump is working to boost US oil production, China is pushing like crazy to get all of its road vehicles off of oil and onto electricity.

It's doing that to reduce the costs of importing oil, to reduce its vulnerability to oil supply disruptions, to reduce its terrible problems with air pollution, to counter global climate change, and to take over the world automotive industry.

Who do you think is pursuing the wiser course?
He posted unsubstantiated claims about tax breaks (I'd like to learn where there are tax breaks for autonomous vehicles) and a claim about trains having more throughput than an interstate with cars fully loaded moving 100kph bumper to bumper.

Asking for citations might be a shallow dismissal, but stating hypotheses without facts to substantiate them is also shallow.
I don't expect self-driving cars to drive much more densely than current cars, though, because all or almost all the same reasons we drive with separation still apply for self-driving cars. Where you might think you get some advantages, they will also have disadvantages, too, like being able to compute exactly how risky their behaviors are. People making the cars and writing the car software aren't going to want to stand in court and explain why their car crashed the 50-car dense train because their car software left no possibility of the brakes going out at that exact moment (i.e., no previous sign of brake failure), and caused a huge crash because none of the cars had any buffer for failure.

Personally I expect self-driving cars to drive a great deal more conservatively than humans as a result, and I think self-driving cars are going to end up demanding a lot more space and buffer on the freeways. And if they don't at first, one day you'll way up and they suddenly all will, because somebody won some lawsuit and a software update was pushed overnight to double the buffers.
Hadn't really considered that. Where I live, the transit company runs a van service door-to-door for elderly and people with disabilities that cannot reach a normal bus stop. The cost of the tickets are the same as for the normal city bus.

What do disabled folks do now in places that don't have such a service?
friendly reminder that conspiracy theorists have been very vocal about this for years in the face of mockery.

corporations are working their hardest to control social narrative. the internet has made this tactic frighteningly effective. I suspect we would all be deeply bothered if we learned the true extent of it.

edit: my shill senses are tingling ;)
It's a frustrating and uncertain place to be as a founder.

You're being paid peanuts compared to what you could be making in the industry (generally your comp is garbage until maybe Series C) and your equity is already as good as it's ever going to get, so some reasons to stay behind are:

1. you're really enjoying the gig

2. you think that by you staying behind, the overall worth of your equity will be higher than by having someone else take over

3. you think that quitting at that stage will be a permanent black mark on your record, the captain abandoned the ship

4. you're totally out of money after years of trying to make ends meet with a startup founder gig, so you can't start a new company without spending a year or two working for someone else first

There's real opportunity cost to sticking around. You could be starting a new business and begin another 4 year vesting countdown there. Maybe you're ok working for someone else, you could be at Google collecting a 1/2M paycheck, feeling like you're on vacation compared to a growth stage CEO job. Maybe you just want to take a breather and actually have time for your spouse and kids for a little bit, before another dive.

Tricky spot.
I agree that we need to make those changes but I think we will, just too late. And yet I still don’t think we’ll “give up all the gains” of the past 150 years.
You failed to understand that science is built atop of epistemology. That is, there is no “post truth”, but rather that Foucault and all have long since provided massive amounts of research to indicate the shifting floors of epistemology, where science is wielded as power. More recently, Dr. Audra J Wolfe has been exploring this complex tapestry. http://audrajwolfe.com/

> There is a very large range of quality of information, it is not all the same. The amount of bias and ulterior agenda in information varies hugely.

Again, you’ve lost the thread when you are grounding yourself in an “this is information” and “this is not”. The question before your presumption is an epistemological one.
They have in-game error messages and log files, or you can attach Visual Studio's debugger.

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Bedrock_Beta_Script_Document...
I do live in Australia (forgot to mention that in reply to GP). The primary problem with the terms is not their length, but the fact that they give the Prime Minister inordinate power to control the timing of elections.
Reverse engineering the 8086, ancestor of the Macbook Pros processor (2015)
Do you see any with actual passengers in them?
This in my mind doesn't address two key items (unless I somehow missed it?)

1) If you truly care about the business, and it's not just a numbers game, you might have some emotional attachment to the product, and the people working for the company. This complicates things for everyone.

2) Leaving will likely devalue your stock. Bad for investors, probably worse for you (as it's likely your largest asset). Pulling yourself out unless the company is in a super strong position, with a likely high chance of hiring a good replacement may not be super smart for your own finances.
Are there any US municipalities that already allow fully driverless cars at all?
> and so they have to slow down everyone to let some passengers off.

So do roads, slow downs happen when cars get on or off of highways.

Going from a road with a high speed to one with a lower speed, if those roads are at capacity, will always result in a backup. Off ramps serve this purpose of course, they basically convert cars going at 60mph into traffic going 30mph through stop lights or some other sort of flow control, but if the roadway is at capacity (as many major cities are), that off ramp as a flow control mechanism falls apart and cars pile up onto the freeway.

The math is unfortunately independent of self-driving cars. If every car is self driving capacity does increase, cars can self coordinate and some of those stop lights become unnecessary, but if 100 cars want to get onto a road that has room for 20, someone is going to have to wait!

Subways naturally don't have this problem!
I would love to have a small flip phone again. Digital keyboard on bottom with small screen on top. Just need call and text and way to summon Uber/Lyft. Maps are useful sometimes, but I just want something smaller in my pocket.
It's fast. It's type safe. Solid developer tooling story.

Those three things are very appealing, whether it's web or anything else.
> The alternative would be for every man and his dog having our corrupt media ram the "Labor has made it easier for terrorists to kill you" story down their throat for the next few months.

In some ways that would be a good thing, because it would force a public debate about warrantless surveillance at a time when relatively few people trust the LNP government or its law-and-order rhetoric.
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It uses V8.
Here is one plausible theory: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/the-censorious-age
> even put solar panels up at the White House.

They were not solar panels (for electricity), they were solar water heaters, and they didn't work very well, which is why they were taken down.
> Tesla's motors are quite advanced

And yet a low volume brand like Jaguar can produce a competitive electric car. What's going to happen when Mercedes releases multiple electric models? As the article says, in 2017 Mercedes sold 2.3 million cars. Tesla sold 101,000.

> they have finally woken up

It's less about them waking up and more about it finally being worth their time. They operate at a larger scale than Tesla, they have existing product lines, and why stop making what continues to sell?

A bigger motivation for them is that multiple countries have announced future bans on non-electric vehicles. They need to produce electrics to keep selling cars.

> across a vast range of business history giving a multiple year lead can easily be fatal to incumbents

I don't think so in this case. The incumbents have second mover advantage. Tesla has grown the early market for electric cars, they've set a benchmark, and they're now going to get out-produced by the larger manufacturers.

When everyone's selling electric cars, why am I buying a Tesla?
- iChat

- Garageband

- iPhoto

- iTunes

- Microsoft Expression Design
Interesting how the top comments are about Microsoft products discontinued years ago.
Nowadays google's the one shutting down products people love (reader, inbox...).
Looks like an inevitable phase in the unicorn lifecycle.
If you sell out your principles to get that power, what's the purpose of having it? By the time you get there, you're no better than the person you ousted.
As far as I can tell, that's only true in fairly unique situations, though, in the super-cities. I live in a decently sized city (metro population of perhaps 3 million people, around 25th in the US I believe) with a transit system mostly regarded as 'pretty good' (but no subway, just light rail and buses) and it would be rare even at rush hour for a car not to be faster. Usually signficantly so.

I think what it comes down to is that if you have a subway system, that will probably beat cars, in the limited area it serves. Once you have to do transfers to buses, it gets much slower. In the places I've visited with subway systems (SF, DC primarily) this is definitely the case.
If you're not trying to run a website on lambda, sure that's enough and there's no need for rocket.
There is a clear impact of gut bacteria on behavior, that's pretty much all you need to start deriving value from the experiments.
It’s also not really a meaningful claim, in that you’re mostly just designating city driving as your personal Turing test.
Perhaps read the authors quoted in the article, then. You will see that “science” isn’t quite what you have learned.
Ban Bear Paw Soup in China to Protect Endangered Bears
You've got Google and Microsoft saying 5G is essential for a future of ubiquitous high quality game streaming.
It seems they have some 'safety level' constant they can control during their training process, so about half a year ago when they were preparing for public release they decided to change safety level constant from 0.99 to 0.999 and something went wrong, like it's completely unable to do some unsafe actions (unprotected left turns, merges, and other tricky situations). And because of that they need additional training with safety drivers for this kind of situations.
Cats are domesticated. They made the indoor outdoor decision a long time ago.
Well, I'm working on software systems that are precisely the sort of thing that the Australian government will target with this law (transportation systems), and it is highly likely that these systems will be targeted with a TAN/TCN. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the software segment that I currently work on is going to be hit by this law, and hard, within the next year or so. If I don't get a TAN/TCN request, I'm almost 100% sure that someone within the group of companies I am working, will. And I want none of that.

So I feel strongly enough about the tyranny and evil of the Australian government that it looks like I'm going to be giving up my Australian citizenship.

Oh, wait:

"We will not approve your application to renounce your citizenship if you do not have another foreign citizenship or it is not in Australia’s interests." [emphasis added]

What an extraordinarily evil thing for the Australian government to have done to its citizens.

Well then, some other options:

0. Do the typical Australian thing: "she'll be right mate!", and stick my head in the sand, hoping that ignoring the bad man will make him go away. This seems to work for a lot of Australians, so might work for me. Could be, I'll never be the subject of a TAN/TCN, but then again, why risk it.

1. I could change my profession. However, this would mean that over time, only the types of people who are willing to act as repressive agents of the Australian government would be found in the software industry. This is really a non-savoury outcome, as I have over 30 years in the software industry and am very proud of the good I have done in this field - I would hate to turn it over to such cunts who think its fine to spy for the Australian Fascist Overlords. I know they're out there - people like me are keeping them from taking over, completely.

(A brief moment of brevity for the poor Australians reading this: Fuck. The Australian Government is literally Auntie Jack. If I don't do what she tells me to, she's gonna jump out of my computer and rip my bloody arms off. [1])

2. Do the paperwork: get my second citizenship, abandon the Australian citizenship, do everything I can to protest Australia and never, ever, contribute to its well-being ever again - this means never going back, removing my assets and resources from the Australian economy, and so on. Hmmm.

3. Submit to a TAN/TCN when/if it happens, but somehow sabotage the work such that it doesn't quite work out. The True Aussie Way™.

4. Insist on working only on software that never tracks the user in any way, whatsoever. This would mean quitting my current job, which already involves tracking people (with their full approval) for productive (non-espionage/law-enforcement) purposes, and finding something with a strict no-data policy.

I guess I'm gonna go with #4. Well, #2 seems a bit more appealing, actually.

Please, I beg of you .. let me walk tall in Australia! [2]

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[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnEOr1MgwTM

[2] - https://youtu.be/8PfDro1UGUo?t=158
Man what is it woth russians and cats honestly? The love that dares not say its name. I lived so myself - in the russian “glubinka”
with a family of cats as a child and loved them dearly, but still

I think russians love cats disproportionately more on average than anywhere else in the world, dogs too but I do think the cat is a national animal of sorts.

They did good work chasing out the vermin though - no need for rat poison or pesticides- just have some cats :)
>Cats are predators. And they need freedom. If you're concerned for birds et al. don't get a cat.

>Don't be cruel to cats to satisfy your need for a pet by forcing your view of how nature should work onto them.

I assume you support people shooting any cat they see outside off of a leash then, correct? We're predators after all, and that's how nature works.
That's an interesting dynamic I hadn't thought of before and is for sure the reason I have any opinion at all about Monsanto (for the sport of spotting the bad countervailing opinions). It's a funny thought, but there's no way Monsanto is paying people to post dumb anti-Monsanto arguments; the anti-Monsanto position is much more popular on message boards.
This read like yet another "i quit $trendy_thing" blog post to me.

Do we really need a whole article to say "I'm not using my phone that much and now I feel enlightened."

Maybe I'm being a little cynical, but.. so what?
Australia has a law that specifically bans warrant canaries.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/australian-gover...
That is helpful - could you explain more about what you mean by using dot to "build links from the code"? I've used dot for process documentation in more of a business process / workflow sense but haven't heard of it in this usecase.

Zooming out, I am thinking more of "business" workflows here vs. technical steps - things like capturing our hiring and on-boarding processes for example.
Related question: Is the AI bubble smaller or larger than the dot-com bubble?

https://i.imgur.com/q7whaio.png
i did not expect anybody remember paintshop. it was incredibly easy and productive for me. how many years have passed.
Hey,

i'd be interested as well. could you add me to the slack? thank you

barbadosmercury@protonmail.com
The Best Way to Stop Bad Conduct Is to Take Away the Rewards for It
The Natural Language App, Part 1
self driving (they dont even need to be self driving just ride share algorithm powered) shuttles are the future of public transport

The systems could be ride share type shuttles that can pick you up at your location and drop you off at your destination.

You make the request in the app and the shuttle picks people up in a location.

They can even drop you off for a transfer with other modes, other shuttles etc. The shuttle that picks you up doesnt have to be the shuttle that drops you off.

Shuttles like these will greatly reduce traffic and can also handle spikes in demand unlike current mass transit.
It's an inversion because the premise has overwhelmingly been, for a long time now, that the US invades for positive oil supply (in one form or another). It was nearly universally proclaimed by the anti-Iraq war crowd that the US went into Iraq for their oil.

The inversion is that the US would be toppling nations in one form or another, or simply not propping them up, to intentionally cause havoc to reduce oil supply from competitors. It would be to harm the competing oil producers for the benefit of US production.
Wow that'sa lot of assumptions to make about me from single statement.

While it is amusing, doesn't HN encourage people to be civil?
I have a pretty good one. When I was a kid our goat once ate the rubber strip off my slingshot. That goat would try to eat just about anything - newspapers, clothes, etc. This behavior seems to be specific to goats, I'm not aware of any other animal behaving similarly.
When i think about the rumours i’ve heard that waymo chief made a 500 millions $ bonus last year... at the time i thought this was because he was the only guy in the world truely capable of transforming the whole industry...
Google photos is much better. There's not really any reason to continue using Picasa anymore. Most of the features it had were extremely primitive, like the facial recognition.
I leave massive gaps constantly now, it lets me see farther ahead so I can switch lanes when I see a problem coming and my average trip time is definitely shorter because of this.

I really like this video for describing some of the advantages of "zen driving":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGFqfTCL2fs
Ask HN: What Powers Flight Entertainment Systems?
I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with what powers the entertainment systems in planes, and how they work in more details? The other day my flight entertainment system crashed and I could see the reboot screen (a terminal with a Tux at the top, indicating a one CPU machine under the hood). I assume all content is streamed from one server in the plane. What kind of setup makes it possible to stream so many videos at once without much trouble? Apart from the Linux clients what is the stack used for navigation and streaming? Do all companies use the same provider or are there many competitors in that area?
> Can you give example of dissident voices in the US?

Really? How about: Occupy Wall Street, BLM, Anonymous, sovereign citizen/militia groups, pipeline protesters, anti factory farm agitators, union activists, socialists, alt-righters, Antifa, straight up Nazis, Nation of Islam, the list goes on.

I don't agree with the positions of the vast majority of these groups, but I do think that it's important that we understand what they try to do and why they are trying to do it. Existing media outlets (even so-called "alt media") provide grossly distorted views of events associated with these groups, if they report on them at all.
It’s broken insofar as there isn’t a complete and coherent “developer story” for building a Windows desktop application that doesn’t look like it came from the 1990s.

I call it “the Photoshop test”: Pretend you’re Adobe and you just invented Photoshop in 2018. How do you build the GUI for each desktop operating system?

...considering you need to do things like OpenGL hardware acceleration, 30-bit color, support binary plugins, and access certain low-level hardware features (e.g. supporting TWAIN, Pro-level broadcast media devices and interfaces, etc).

On Windows it’s an unfortunate situation because all of the “new” application frameworks since 1998 are unsuitable: WPF is .NET only, UWP requires your application to run in a sandbox, you can’t even use MFC because it’s tightly coupled to User32 with its lack of support for 30-bit color. The only choice is the long hard road of doing almost everything by yourself through low-level interfaces with the DWM. Not pretty.

The sad thing is that UWP is very capable - if it weren’t for the sandboxing then it would be perfect (that, and you would need to build your own widget library as UWP’s stock set is almost entirely touch-first controls that are utterly inappropriate for a mouse-first desktop UI)