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> The loss of books and other written works was almost total prior to the printing press. A small number of durable tablets

Mesopotamian clay tablets are incredibly robust. We have many times more than we have the manpower to translate, not to speak of the ones still buried in more or less unknown locations.

Funnily enough, they survived much better in cities that were destroyed -- and burned, firing the tablets -- than in cities that weren't, where the tablets might eventually fall below the water table and dissolve.

But anyway, we don't have "a small number" of durable tablets; we have an extremely large number, including some entire royal libraries.

> Your link says "A manuscript copy was commissioned by Jiajing Emperor in 1562 and completed in 1567.[8] The original copy was lost afterwards. " That doesn't often happen when you can produce 10,000 copies.

This is not the case; China had extensive markets in printed popular works for centuries beforehand. Most of that work doesn't survive because of lack of interest. The fate of almost all printed material is total disappearance, because we can only maintain so much material, and printed material is a subset of all material.

From the introduction to Record of the Listener ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/1624666841/ ):

> At the time of Hong Mai's death in 1202, the Record [夷坚志] had grown to a massive collection of 420 chapters, totaling over four thousand entries. Although it was not clear whether any complete editions were ever published by any Song publisher, we do know that multiple editions of varying sizes and qualities were made available by commercial publishing houses in different parts of the country. Much of the Record was nonetheless lost as early as the Yuan Dynasty [less than 100 years later], an indication of the traumatic effects of the Song-Yuan transition. The current 207-chapter editions are based on post-Song redactions and later manuscripts by traditional and modern scholars.

Note that this is a famous work considered relevant today. Contrast the countless printed popular works that nobody thought were worth preserving in the first place.

The ability to make copies is not relevant in the slightest. The number of copies made is relevant, but only weakly. Information is preserved when people devote effort to preserving it, and lost otherwise.
If Apple is his client he's probably not going to take any clients that competes with them.
How to acquire 100000 users for an app like BeTickled?
Hey all the smart folks with smart ideas willing to help a fellow founder, I need your inputs.

BeTickled is an app we built for local friendships. Details on website https://www.betickled.com.

We launched on App Store 2 months back and have few thousand users. Android is coming next week and will do a full launch in August.

How best to scale it to 100,000 users in 4 months?

Any ideas?
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AFAIK the best-known example of this is France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_law_on_secularity_and_c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_scarf_controversy_in_F...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%C3%AFcit%C3%A9
Most of software engineers would be fine with that, I guess. Or not?
Not true. I have 5 and it works just fine. But they don’t support a Unified Inbox (which suits me just fine).
I don't think Ive departing from Apple would be entirely a bad thing, though. Most of Apple's really great designs are thanks to Jony, but some of their really stupid ones (e.g the horrible butterfly keyboards) have his fingerprint on them too.
All you need to know about this thing is this idiotic sentence: "It’s the kind of innovation that can only happen in startups, and with special, once-in-a-lifetime founders."

Seriously? Once-in-a-lifetime founders? For an email client? That's how you know this is marketing garbage.
What if St(eve) Jobs picked Mr. [E|I]ve just because that's the name needed to hand out apples to people, especially the bitten ones? In other words: is his design really that important?
MITM boxes like that don't like sites that act as proxies. They also block things like browserling because they can act as a browser of other sites.
Yes but they'd still be computers, with computer-use-case constraints.
+1 - I hope this comes to pass!
Other than putting Google Analytics on all Mozilla properties as sibling commenters have already mentioned (link to info on that here [0]), there is also the following:

- as I mentioned in another comment, Firefox Preview comes with Google as a default search engine (not a huge issue) and with "search suggestions" enabled by default (which sends everything you ever type to Google).

- Even if you disable search suggestions (or change provider), Firefox has a built-in feature called "Google Safe Browsing" which collates every URL you visit and sends bulk reports to Google. This feature is only disable-able via the "here be dragons" about:config area.

- then there's Google Location Services, which sends your WiFi router SSID, SSIDs of routers in range, and hardware details, to Google. This is less clear cut as Mozilla's use of this service has been on-off over time, and varies per device. See[1]

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1512161
Ive been waiting for this
The battery will still be ridiculously heavy and very large, well outside the limits of human ability to move it. So you need some sort of machinery to do it, as well as a human operator.

Also, keep in mind you don't just need very robust electrical quick-connects, you also need fluid quick-connects for the heating/cooling. As well as a system to bleed air from the loops inside the bus.
AMEN.

I hope this jagoff's incredibly degrading influence on Apple's products can be reversed.
> I wonder if it pulls from archive.com

It proxies the initial html request and then you'll notice any assets on the page load directly through archive.org.
Ask your political representative why they're relying on a foreign ad service to manage their government websites.
Hopefully this lets Apple move back to making great devices that look great, instead of devices with seriously compromised performance in exchange for being very slightly more thin.
Get the projectile up to mach 33 and it can shoot satellites out of orbit from the ground.
To be fair, it’s not like DC doesn’t have public libraries. Also, the original DC Carnegie building sits on some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
I don't know what the argument here is. Obviously you don't want to be sucking down diesel exhaust, and I don't believe I set a stake down on "diesel is good for you".

My point was that, on balance, riding in a bike behind a diesel bus is less toxic than riding behind the train of 10+ cars it replaced (or really that riding in a city filled with single passenger vehicles is less healthy than one inhabited by diesel bus riders.

Get folks out of their cars. Then worry about what kind of buses they ride.
Maybe we’ll get a MacBook Pro that doesn’t throttle the cpu and has a decent keyboard that doesn’t break after a year because the product designers wanted a super thin computer.
> Never had to do that for an app before, so I back out and pinged the ceo to remove me from their system. I don’t know. Seems off. Somehow.

They pretty strongly adhere to "The Collision Installation" [0] in that they want to give you an in-depth product overview in a consultation before they give it to you.

> Nothing about what generates the joy, of what exactly is fast about it.

There's a keyboard shortcut for everything, and the UI actively trains you if you somehow don't use a keyboard shortcut to do something. It sounds intrusive, but it's not. The actual performance in terms of latency between user input and action is optimized too, which makes everything feel super fast. They also optimize some types of actions so that some specific workflows are faster (like reading every email with auto-advance). It's the combination of these things that make it fast.

[0]: http://www.startupengine.org/2013/08/the-collision-installat...
This is not quite what you asked, but still worth taking a look...

Children's publisher Usborne have made available for free some classic computer books from the 1980s aimed at kids. The books use illustrations extensively to explain concepts.

These books have been discussed a few times before here on Hacker News. Scroll down to the bottom of the link below for the free PDFs.

https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin...

Don't be put off by the fact the books are aimed at kids. I'll repeat what I said about these guides in a previous Hacker News discussion: Not only are these books well written with clear, concise explanations, they are also more readable and enjoyable than many programming books published for adults today.

I've often wondered why programming explanations don't use simple graphics or diagrams to illustrate programming concepts. Anyone writing a technical guide (of any kind) would benefit from reading these as a source of ideas and inspiration.
>> What do I mean by that? How about a couple of examples: It should not be an acceptable practice to just insert a CD and indiscriminately install software onto a production machine. Mainframe systems have well-documented and enforced change management procedures that need to be followed before any software is installed into a production environment.

>>

>> Nor should it be acceptable to just flip the switch and reboot the server. Mainframe systems have safeguards against such practices. And mainframes rarely, if ever, need to be restarted because the system is hung or because of a software glitch. Or put into words that PC dudes can understand: there is no mainframe “blue screen of death.” Indeed, months, sometimes years, can go by without having to power down and re-IPL the mainframe.

This can also be true for a standard cloud server running several web services or other processes. How are any of the author's points specific to mainframes?
I haven’t forgiven him for iOS 7. I absolutely love the classic iOS look and hate the bland, confusing, flat look.
"...just seems like a natural and gentle time to make this change". Uh, okay.
This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me want to contribute to and use Mozilla projects. Bravo!
I'm not logged into Netflix and I see no error
You can keep posting the guidelines all you want. I don't bother trying because I know that you will just pop up with the word "unsubstantive" for anything you don't happen to personally think is good.
How many times does this need to happen, for people stop paying for DRMed junk? Buy digital goods DRM-free only. Vote with your wallet, otherwise it's pointless to complain.
Chinese hackers used the cloud to steal trade secrets from enterprise customers
Could not agree more. Apple's design anorexia has to go.
It's not minimalism, it's poor minimalism.

IMO Watch is just plain unattractive as a design object. Tinkering with the crown colour or the strap choices hasn't changed that. I keep waiting for it to be refined, so far not.

I'm also not sold on the new(ish) font and flat UI style. They work, more or less, but there's something very bland about them.

The big hits were game changers and were anything but bland - the original Bondi Blue iMac, the MBP aesthetic, the Macbooks including the Air, and the iPhone.

Good design integrates form without breaking function, and that hasn't been the case with the not-really-working keyboards, the touchbar, the bottom charge port on the Magic Mouse, the death of the headphone jack, the end of MagSafe, the missing ports on too many laptop models, and others.

I don't know which of those Ive was responsible for. I suppose we'll find out over the next few years.
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I do want a bigger something! Sign me up!
You're being facetious.
So perfect for a railgun projectile? :)

What is the hardest man-made substance?
Someone I knew long time ago was from контрразведка (counterintelligence), concretely, from служба наружного наблюдения (field observation duty).

He bragged that Russia's (former USSR) counterintelligence was so sophisticated that higher ranks of spies from around the world all worked in Russia or USSR some time in their career. He presented enough evidence in form of mind experiment that I believe him (mainly due to his reaction time - he has answers readily).

So, for your "world's most sophisticated intelligence" I raise my "самая лучшая контрразведка в мире". Can world's best intelligence service be stopped by world's best counterintelligence service?

Otherwise we are going into pure speculation, like "spies agree on some kind of rule", etc.
Tor is free with no signup / cc required. This makes a huge difference, especially for younger users. Did for me back then, at least.

Initially it was slow, yes. But totally fine the last few years for normal browsing and reasonable downloads. Speedtest.net, speedtest.googlefiber & fast.com just now gave me 5, 6 & 10Mbps for whatever server in Ghana i got. Only the high ping causes loading times to still be a bit annoying.

But right now the biggest reason not to use Tor for anything "legit" is the many services blocking you, since indeed most current Tor users are not what those services want and the race to the bottom of Tor will continue, if we haven't reached it already.
This explains a lot. I can just barely use the regular Pixel 3 in one hand, and I never want a phone that is any bigger. If my thumb were a little bit smaller then I couldn't use the Pixel 3 one-handed and I might as well have a bigger phone.

I put a data-only SIM into my old Nexus 5 to use for tethering and as a secondary device. Right away I noticed just how amazingly small and thin it is!
Maybe we can get buttons on the trackpad in our lifetimes.
I don't think we can ever be certain of the cause of stock price changes. I said it will be interesting to watch.
This sounds like a group boycott if not restraint of trade. Is any authority looking into this?
The good old days when JavaScript wasn't used for janky animations
"was that it made money by charging me a monthly fee, so I knew they can stay alive and continue without being sold to a bigger company and killed like many others before them."

Although VC money is worse, you don't know that at all about profit-based models. Any profitable company can sell out or cease operations at any time. One that I got burned on recommending was FoundationDB that was selling an awesome database for good prices with steady growth. After Apple bought it, they shut it down. Of all like that, it was one of only ones to get resurrected into an open-source product. Most just disappear with the big company transitioning the paying customers into their own, crappier offerings.

This is why I push for anyone trying to create products with longevity and good practices to use an open core model in a public-benefit corporation or non-profit. Best example in recent times is probably Ghost:

https://ghost.org/about/

Note: I don't use Ghost. Just loved the business model they're trying. One of only trustworthy models out there.
Apple's Jony Ive Leaving AAPL to Form Independent Design Firm
Wayfair workers specifically asked for donations to RAICES, because Red Cross are not being allowed into the facilities.
Dark Mode–Overhyped or Necessity?
I have yet to see this addressed by anyone in favor of such restrictions. Essentially we go back to a pre-internet economy.
So make that field optional.
Of course, every sale is a political stance.
When I was a poor college student I had a GPS map (probably a Tom Tom at that time) do the "route you in a cycle" glitch over a toll bridge multiple times. I was already down to my last dollar(s) so I had a bit a of a "Charlie on the MTA" moment wondering if I was going to end up stuck on the wrong side of the bridge without enough money to leave the island it led to.
Add reflow... Opera does that really well. Doubletap to reflow and make text larger. Its the only android browser that does it afaik.
Then you will soon be slaves to those that don't do the same.
Books go "out of print", and curiously enough this even happens to eBooks. Usually it's because the rights got sold or expired.

If you only read bestseller list books then yes, but anything older or niche/technical may really not be available for sale anymore.
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For a second I thought you meant the 2013 Macbook Pro and I was wondering what the hell you were talking about.
iOS has native support for a subset of the rules in blockers like uBlock Origin.
It is the nature of open source. I personally prefer it. Anyways, they didn't claim it was unfinished. Projects like these are never "finished".
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Hopefully this signals the end of the designers tyranny at Apple.

While physical design has been of paramount importance in Apple's rise to the top, it has been more and more detrimental as Jony and his group wandered into worshipping at the altar of luxury and Platonic idealism.

When combined not ignoring other than luxury market segments and usability that was fine. But when Jony's star was completely ascendant everything else was sacrificed at that altar (see butterfly keyboard, single port MacBook, escape key-less touch bars, no 32 GB MacBook Pros since that would require non-power-sipping RAM.)

I could have lived with this if the design of the software hadn't also suffered in conjunction with the hardware. Jony was given responsibility for UX and it also started prioritizing abstract design principles over actual usability with extremely low contrast UI elements and other poor choices.

As we saw those points being walked back and Apple being responsive to the complaints, I've been wondering if Craig Federighi's star was rising and if Jony's was dimming, since I doubt he was a willing participant in the diminution of his artistic choices. Seeing the extreme effort he was putting into charity[0] and the spaceship campus, instead of his actual responsibilities, it all combined to me that he needed to either get re-focused by the CEO or get a new job.

[0] https://www.dezeen.com/2018/11/16/jony-ive-diamond-ring-marc...
https://petapixel.com/2013/11/24/one-kind-jony-ive-red-leica...
https://www.businessinsider.com/jony-ive-bono-sothebys-chari...
https://www.fastcompany.com/3019896/designed-by-friendship-j...
Widely used class of drugs linked to dementia
I get your point but the same error handling problems can appear in scripts and pipelines, no?

In a program I'd try/catch defensively "just in case", if missing one line out of 25TB is not a bit deal.

For parallel processing I'd reach for the nearest standard library at hand on the language of choice.
Great of something that is ethically bulletproof but quite illegal!
EU hits Broadcom with interim demands in antitrust probe
The goal should not be to secure beds, but to secure their freedom.
Search for DeDRM plugin for calibre. There's several ways to do it. If you have a physical kindle, you can download the books from your amazon account, and plug the serial number of your kindle into DeDRM. If you have the Kindle for PC or Mac app, DeDRM can pick up the relevent keys. I recommend getting the books in the AWZ3 format rather than KFX.
Hope the toilet paper is soft.
I would guess he is going to continue to be in charge of design for their flagship products for the foreseeable future.
Ask HN: unpopular opinions on starting successful SaaS
I've read a couple of books that say the same thing, of these books are: "The millionaire fast-lane", "Lean Start-up", "Zero to One", "Lean B2B" and "Makebook.io".

They talk about eating your own dog-food, and observing around you to find problems other people have.

non of this advice worked for me. I'm searching for unpopular opinions on how to launch new SaaS.

I've found 30x500 by amy hoy, she stresses her sales safari, which is going around the internet and lurking around communities in a specific manner to find real pains.

Do you know any other unpopular opinions about finding business ideas that work?
Currently working on an authentication server that will have local users, and integrate SSO and 2FA options...

The break in flow is kind of required... I COULD display a disabled password field for the purpose of showing it... I instead opted for having a hidden password field (by size/opacity) so that password managers and auto-fill can populate it... when the user clicks next, the password field will be filled and continue. I could just try logging in with the entered password, if populated then display the password field without error, but this would/should probably count against the bad password attempts.

There's no perfect way here... dealing with the blur event for the text field for similar behavior will also cause alien events and mess with accessibility. Having a clear "Next" is at least a consistent in terms of a11y.
This is precisely my point! As much as one might be morally against military research, it is well funded and bleeding edge.

Case in point: I had to get a double bunionectomy when I was in the Army after spending a year in Iraq and got my feet wrecked. They surgically broke my big toe in 2 places and drilled 2 holes. They then put "pins" in each hole made of pig cartilage. This procedure allows the body to heal and then it absorbs these "pins" which prevents arthritis. At the time I got this surgery, in 2004, it was not available to the general civilian population. Now, it is. It was pioneered to help the military and now the entire populace can benefit from the exact same technology.

Problem spaces that push boundaries of engineering ultimately result in better engineer for everyone.
I had a similar experience when I was traveling in Bali Indonesia rural areas.
Why not? FrogDesign had Apple and competitors as clients.
Yeah, the designer of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook really tanked the company with those.