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> Well, this is where the industry is going. The latest buzzword we hear in the industry is called "product as a service" — you buy a product, but still don't own it, and have to keep your subscription going so the seller don't remotely brick your device.

This is exactly what Cisco has done in the small/medium sized business market with their acquisition of Meraki. Pay forever or your router and wifi stops working. It's abhorrent.
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Am I misunderstanding something? Once in recycle mode you're supposed to send them back so that Sonos can actually recycle (or even reuse, nothing stops them from refurbishing) the old device. Recycle mode seems to simply be a convenience so that people can get the 30% rebate immediately once they've shown they're serious about sending back the device. What sucks is that you have to trade up to recycle, if they offered some buy back program it'd be near perfect, right?
The owner did try to recycle them for parts, by giving them to the recycling centre.
The two funds I mentioned can afford exclusivity deals. When they expire the rest of the street catches on, by then they are already on to new ones. At any given time they have multiple in the pipeline.
Took million dollar pay cut in 2015 so everyone could make at least $70k
Oh, make no mistake, Japan’s plastic recycling is just like the rest of the world: it was dumped in poorer Asian countries. Most cities burn it now. PET plastic is allegedly recycled, but that’s just a small portion of all plastic.
I feel like the article is written into that presumption/expectation. It comes very much from a “I was like that, but now I am like this” place.
Godot might be it in the future... but not yet.

It seems to focus on 2D for now, almost all the showcase games for it are 2D also. I don't think it's been battletested enough in 3D yet.
Amateurs. The pros scrape credit card transaction databases with ML models to determine if, when, and how much the CEO and his buddy drink together...
And well off westerners will praise him for it ... see this thread - just an announcement and everyone is practically falling over themselves to pile on the praise.
Thank you! For all the suggestions, I'll definitely be adding all of these to my list. Any more suggestions is greatly appreciated!
Not just bias, but sometimes a propaganda piece. One side of the story, often the most significant one is left out.

It is funded by the state of Qatar to act as its mouthpiece. In the Islamic world every country legitimizes itself by trying to sound more islamic than the other.

I am just stating that they may be strongly biased. They do make crisp documentaries and interesting news stories.
"all politics is meta"

That doesn't make sense, or you just don't understand my usage
I don't think it's the reason.

A pair of good speakers is the most useful equipment in audio. If I'm a millennial audiophool and want 192 kHz / 32-bit PCM, I'll simply put a new DAC in front of the original Hi-Fi amplifier. I won't throw the perfectly usable system away.
I bet this effect is intended. The YC ecosystem can help itself grow and allow nascent companies to iterate more quickly by getting tech-savvy customers, feedback, and cash flow earlier. This can grease the wheels of the machine on the path of building a business from a conventional bottom-up approach accomplished by supporting SMBs and growing to support enterprises after finding product-market fit and iterating on the product and business rather than going directly to enterprises (where the sales cycles can be very long).
When you hybridise like that it’s up to you to highlight the benefits. As you point out it’s much easier to do that with closely related fields. You need to have an idea of what the one field brings to the other. If you don’t know and can’t articulate that how is the hiring manager supposed to?
About 8(?) years ago my wife tasked me to get a whole-house audio system that was simple to use. After reading a lot, sonos was the clear choice, though pricey. We started with two play:3's, then added a play:5 and two more play:3's. And things were good.

But for the past year the system has been a mess. Music stutters, some units can't be found, some units fail to upgrade through multiple retries/reboots. I've wasted so many hours relocating them and connecting the misbehaving units to an ethernet cable trying to get them to update.

Eventually things get working again after hours of blind tinkering, but then a month or two later it happens again.

My wife looks to me as the tech guy to solve it, but it is far more opaque to debug then when PCs misbehave. Yes, I know about the secret diag menus and login, but they don't really help me.

The point is: my wife resents that the system doesn't work, and I resent that I've wasted so much time and my wife thinks I'm shirking because every time it comes up I groan and put off the pain of getting it working again.

I won't brick these -- I'll find some use case where they do work, but I'll get some other system to make my wife happy, even if it means spending another $1200+.
Well iMessage works over wifi so if you don't have cell service it is handy. I just got home from visiting family and their local airport has no cell service.
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What would be illegal about it? Plenty of devices have hardware usage tied to software activation so there’s years of precedent of this being acceptable.
In Android, an App's manifest designates which deep links it can handle. Then when the user clicks on a link, it gives the user the option of which app to use when there are multiple apps that can handle it.

Maybe since at one point you did tell it you want to use news to handle it, it keeps going back to it? Although that means most likely the News app was not updated to remove support for that link. Or maybe iOS deep links work differently? (I only use Android)
I don’t think either of these tribes comprise “virtually half the country” or even an approximation thereof.
because they were tied to itunes?
I worked on an exclusive dataset with citadel. It’s never as valuable, the last few years were a special case where most funds were lagging on the analytics. At this point it’s nearly democratized. Also, even if you know exactly how a company is doing that doesn’t mean the stock will follow the companies real value. The whole thing is way more complex. Two sigma also doesn’t make as much money as they claim, they’re more of a market maker.
Apple replicated the functionality so they could crack down on third parties abusing enterprise device management.
There are no scientific evidence that probiotics work or don't work. It's a 50-50 unproven by science. The ones that prove it are sponsored and none disprove it either. My 50c as a long term IBS patient.
> Student debt is a main driver of poverty and homelessness.

Source? Especially for the homelessness part.
I feel bad about it but I rather wish it worked this way for expensive power tools. I don't want permanent drm for tools I just want a one time lock that is forever disabled upon purchase. Perhaps electronically while being purchased.
There's also the increasing number of weird controls for automatic transmissions.

However, I think the last major difference in the basic controls of a car was automatic vs. traditional manual, and that seems to be resolving.

I can imagine things that nobody seems to be doing - like what if you have a CVT, but manual control of the gear ratio through a lever with no detents?
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The convenience seems to be worth the risk, IMO. The Sonos sound quality is great for the form factor/space, I don't have to run wires anymore, and I'm not lugging around a bunch of bookshelves and making room for them + a receiver... I'll go back to that world if I have to, but for now, the Sonos stuff was more appealing after a couple moves and starting from scratch.

This recycle mode stuff is terrible, though.
It's still extremely vague how many releases will require the eight-week review with six-week extension in https://gdpr-info.eu/art-36-gdpr/, but this is the kind of friction and cost they're imposing even on groups who aren't doing anything bad.
Since 2003 when erdogan came to power, the turkish economy grew 4 or 5X. There are lost of areas to criticize when it comes to erdogan, but the economy really ain't it.
This is exactly how it works.

Yet 400 boolean data points is nowhere near enough data for any kind of learning system to get anywhere. And without the cloud to aggregate data from millions of other users, it'll never become great.
I also had a similar experience with a YC company providing hair loss solution in India (nonucare.com)

On the website they have testimonials from founders and CEOs who vouch for their product. 5/6 of them were founders from their YC batch.

At some point you have to wonder if the reviews are genuine or just a case of founders helping founder friends.
Electricians have a median pay of $55,000 which is a good bit higher than the average pay of $38,000. And I don't think anyone is recommending kids become electricians instead of petroleum engineers but maybe instead of history majors/baristas.

Call center is also entry level, so I don't know why an entry level electrician should get paid much more than what someone at a call center makers.
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Nah I worked on that credit card data. Once everyone has it the value disappears really fast. It’s a sexy way to do analysis, but within a few years it will just be another data point. The big money is made in understanding how a companies new innovative business arms are doing and where the promise of those lays. That’s where talking to the ceo tells you what’s going on. The big money is made in long term bets, not short term credit card predictions
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85 million people too lazy to hunt out another news app, or just aimlessly opening apps on their phone when bored.
One thing that's interesting about this memory map is how much is crammed into the first 8KB of the SNES's 128 KB main RAM, while the rest is mainly used to store large blocks of uncompressed data. This is probably a remnant of how the SNES was originally designed have just 8KB of RAM. (http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/SFC_1988Q4.html)
It's based pretty directly on S, which was designed in the mid 1970s. Yeah, it has very rough edges here, but hard to argue that they should have foreseen the future back then.

That said, the real value in R seems to be the libraries. Has anyone looked at a shim that could make those libraries available to Python in a reasonably natural way? If that existed, the R language itself could be allowed to finally rest in peace.
Exactly, when Apple deprecates something they at least either communicate it properly or handle it elegantly (in my experience at least).
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I think that's the point though. Every growth software company wanted to have a beat and raise quarter, so they would manage expectations down to be able to offer exactly that, often no matter the quality of the earnings. As a sell-side analyst, if you wanted access to value-add with opportunities with corporates where you could get paid (e.g. non-deal roadshows), or even potentially banking business, you would generally need to have a good relationship with the company. The more divisive analysts would generally restrict contentious calls to one or two names that would generate call flow.

A lot of sell-side research work that analysts are paid for also focuses on information outside of estimates such as brokering investor sentiment or offering more details on channel checks in addition to what was published.
GrubHub & Uber are both public companies at this point. So at the minimum, they're subsidized by those who buy their stock, but clearly they're reinvesting revenue into the business.
Can confirm... bananas in the convenience store are individually wrapped in plastic. wtf?
On early Ipods music was effectively "glued" to the individual player with a primitive DRM/scambling system.

So, you were dead in the water without Itunes that kept the fairplay key for that particular player
> How do you calculate this? Sure if you were just you with car, you could - but not sure this is exactly a workable business model without uber - if it was then people would presumably not use uber.

I'm not a 100% sure if I understand your question. What I meant was that you could run a marketplace web service like uber or airbnb for way less than they're spending now. The variable costs of processing those transactions approach 0 at scale, also would be practically free if someone wanted to host it themselves for their small town.

> You could have open source versions - but the source code is a small part of the operation - and I'm not sure why I would want to government to run it - or why people should not be allowed to profit from it. If the issue is that workers are being exploiter maybe a better option is to see if there is some reasonable regulation to be put in place or why there is such low demand relative to the supply of labour.

Yeah I agree. The OP asked about a good open source alternative and I think that this could work as an open source project and be deployed per town (or as a decentralized application).
I can also confirm this. I used to curate data and develop equities forecasts professionally for about 30 or so funds, including Citadel and Two Sigma. It’s getting harder to build a successful trading strategy based on “quantamental” analysis alone (“alternative data”) each year.

A lot of fundamental hedge funds turned to this in the early 2010s as awareness of big data became a thing, thinking they could close the performance gap with the quant funds. It didn’t work. The quant funds that purchase this data use it as only one dimension of analysis to confirm a hypothesis which has already been empirically tested across many other inputs.

I have a specific example I can talk about, because my old firm abandoned the data: I found a reliable method for predicting exactly how many Model X and Model S vehicles Tesla sold well before earnings each quarter of 2017, including complete configuration data for each vehicle. Even with that KPI in hand, I couldn’t successfully forecast where the stock would go after each earnings call.
From personal experience with a HN headline scraping IRC bot I wrote a few years ago, 400 labelled headlines is more than sufficient to get pretty good results. The threshold of usefulness should be closer to a few dozen rankings.
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Didn't they face huge backlash a few years back when they EOLed still functional kit people owned and used?

* It was the CR100 Controller they updated to no longer be able to control devices it previously could.
My original claim (which DocG disputed) was that clicking on a YouTube link launches the app by default, without asking the user. "By default" implies that this can be changed.
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It's harder to names ones that do, really. It's easy to find some "alternative" to most famous software packets, but despite people repeatedly naming all the same programs (known to pretty much anyone interested anyways), none of them can replace, say, photoshop.

So, out of my head (and, yeah, all of them have "alternatives" no serious user would ever switch to):

Ableton Live

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Premiere

AutoCAD

Microsoft Office (Excel in particular)

Google Calendar (self-hosted)

VisualStudio of Jetbrains IDEs
Honestly the suite of Excel + Powerpoint is incredibly hard to replace.

The entry level to power user path of Powerpoint and Excel specifically make it easy to jump in and then get very powerful usage from very quickly.
I wouldn’t classify UNIQLO as fast fashion.

The majority of their products are unbranded essentials with far greater durability and build quality than your typical “fast fashion” retailers.
I just presented my opinion. I am a regular listener. As a non westerner I know for a fact that stories about my own country is dominated by a colonial view point.

The OP is specifically looking for sources that do not have western bias. And I hope my opinion will be useful.
The sort of code review that ends up at "you can't land this until it looks exactly like the code I'd write" can be its own sort of hell...
XXL is array oriented. All values are arrays, even what are usually considered scalar values. Verbs decide how they should behave with single item array arguments. Verbs like the math functions automatically apply themselves to the entire array. This removes a lot of need for looping constructs, which are discouraged in XXL. Some examples:

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Let me know if this makes sense so I can update the readme correspondingly.
yes, the terminology is certainly confusing. "accidental moderate" seems intentionally "moderate on average", as in some reversion to the mean kind of claim, but is opposed to an "intentional moderate", who seems to fall into moderation by default.

what's left unsaid, but i find more thought-provoking, is the notion that, as with the fringe ideologues, you can safely ignore the "intentional moderate" since they don't add to the conversation (because they don't think deeply about politics).

intellectual independence seems integral to why his "most impressive people" are impressive in the first place--they delve deeper into questions/challenges to form their opinions rather than adopting them wholesale from others.
GPS may be reliable for early warning of larger quakes. Both seismic waves and seismometers saturate at magnitudes above M7.5. That is to say its hard to tell a 7.5 from a 8 or 9 because appear similar size waves. It takes sophisticated computer analysis of a global set of seismographs to computer true quake size. This initial confusion happened in the disastrous 2011 Fukishima quake.

On the other hand working with GPS displacements gives an answer in less than a minute for larger quakes and more warning time.

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I'm typing this from an LG Gram 17 laptop running current Debian. Before this laptop, I used a Dell Inspiron N7110 for many years, also running Debian stable. I basically never need to use anything else to get work done.

I will grant that a few things are a bit fiddly -- touchpads are iffy sometimes (and infuriating on the LG Gram because it's got a new one) and function keys sometimes don't work. The Gram had a booting problem that has since been resolved (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203617) but also had workarounds pretty quickly. So for some hardware, yeah, it's not a good experience for people used to just running Windows.

But there's also lots of hardware for which it works just fine out of the box, and for experienced Linux people, it's not usually that hard to deal with the sharp edges.

And modern KDE is brilliant.
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Do they have an alternative name in case they receive a friendly C&D letter? I propose TungstenBeta.
You really do need a high quality DAC for a modern system. Older systems won't have a DAC at all, much less a good one.

That is a big deal unless it's a system 100% dedicated to vinyl.
> Former Democrats who become Republicans because they feel the party has shifted out from under them are creating excuses to mask their own changing opinions.

To me, this is the incoherent view. Of course the voter base has changing opinions. It's completely to be expected that over the course of decades political alliances will shift.

The entire point of what I said is that the political opinions of the Democratic party moved in a direction that did not match that of my general demographic. Now that opinions have shifted, we find that our interests are better served by Republican talking points than by Democratic ones. So we vote red.

People like to bemoan the fact that America has a two party system, while many other places have a parliamentary system with many parties. The fact is America just handles its coalition building at an earlier step. There is no single "prototypical" Republican or Democrat. There are many factions throughout the country that weigh the political winds and throw their weight behind the group they see as most likely to benefit their own particular concerns.

None of this should be nearly so divisive a topic as it clearly is. The post I replied to noted that there were a bunch of "Rockefeller Republicans" who shifted and become Democrats.

I replied that a similar thing had happened around me, only in the opposite direction. Blue collar Democrats from the 70s-00s, found that after the financial crisis, the political winds pointed them to the Republican party.
> The only site I know with a worse UX than Netflix is Amazon Prime Video.

Amazon Prime Video has exceptionally bad UX. But then again Amazon shopping experience is also rather abysmal.
At a previous job of mine, they implemented a "personal improvement plan" for employees who were below management's "desired productivity". There was no warning, no heads up that they would be measuring our GitHub accounts, and it had absolutely no context of what each person had been working on. These reviews came after a 360 peer review, and absolutely blindsided the team. Several of my coworkers left early for the day and didn't come in for the rest of the week. I got calls all day from various people asking what happened in my 1:1, what was said, etc...

I wish I could show management how negatively and immediately that move affected the culture & mood of engineering at that company. It was an overnight change, and going forward it basically killed all trust in management. I stayed around for a little bit longer, but I should have quit the second they started those measurements.

It absolutely murdered the confidence of our junior devs. Of the senior engineers who were put on it, none of them really had any idea what they were doing wrong or how to improve, as no feedback was given about any of that, just that they weren't enough. Some of our seniors had 15+ years of experience in software and were industry experts, but it didn't matter: They hadn't been hitting the number of commits and pull requests and tickets per week that management insisted on.

When management was confronted about it, they admitted that code metrics aren't a good measurement of productivity, but then insisted that they "needed something".

It turns out, they only used code metrics as a bludgeon to get rid of the employees they wanted gone, and since then that's all I've been able to see code metrics as. They're a battering weapon used to give HR a performance reason to justify firing you.
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>>>Would be faster if you have a local to tell you what's safe and what isn't.

The locals taking me to their favorite holes-in-the-wall to eat was what usually made me sick. When I pressed them to go to more upscale restaurants with the caveat that I was paying, I think that helped.

The one weekend I spent in HCMC I didn't get sick, but I spent the whole time dining at some really upscale places with a chubby foodie (I swiped right on her for exactly that reason..."She looks like she eats well").
Sonos doesn't take back the used devices: they expect users to give them to a local electronics recycler for recycling, where they essentially have to be scrapped, because devices in "recycle mode" are blacklisted in Sonos's servers and can't be resold (even if they're in perfect working order).
I hope a hospice. Ugh that language has damaged me worse than Perl.