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What prevents software and services from becoming commodities as well?
You have your boss's phone number, right? As a matter of decorum you should at least do it over the phone. If they're hard to get hold of, then email something like, "Is there a good time to call you today?" or (only slightly deceptive) "Could I call you to talk about the next things I'll be working on?"
- So they are not tracking me, but everyone else is reading my search queries because there's no https support.

- It's really slow

- It's ugly

No thanks.
The average user wouldn't care much about proprietary ports. What's exactly mindset from 90s when it was the first to bring smart phone to the mass market? Every company has its pros and cons. If Apple won't come out with anything new and come out with lacklustre updates, I might short it. But back in 2009, it was a laughable decision by Wilson. Investing is much irrational. One shouldn't be so emotionally invested in or against any company regarding money.
Throwing baseless negativity at PHP. Quaint.
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The only reason they're relevant is the iPhone. If they didn't become the lead platform in a market that exploded shortly after, they would hardly be where they are today.

Once again they're losing marketshare to commodity hardware now that the path has been paved. You can assume they'll strike lightning again but we'll see.
They make no mention of much better driver training; higher-quality and routinely inspected automobiles; less traffic; and cultural values that probably play a huge role.

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I'm not asserting that people who are satisfied with Wikipedia are wrong, I'm just proposing an alternative for people who are not satisfied.

For instance, it's not at all clear to me that a database of human knowledge could not do both - giving general overviews and provide in-depth information. Even Wikipedia kind of does both in a lot of places.

Research journals are not a good place for in-depth information because they're closed source and because they put too much emphasis on single studies (which are often wrong and need to be seen in the context of other evidence). The need for curated in-depth content is just as real as it is for high school-level summaries and there is nothing in principle preventing a wikipedia-like database from providing arbitrary depth.

It seems we have already taken a big step in this direction with the formation of Wikipedia, but for all the tremendous mileage already achieved it's a vehicle that doesn't seem to be taking us much further. Indeed, we seem to be rolling backwards and losing knowledge from the pool again.

Again, this is not a critique of people who are mostly happy with Wikipedia. It's a faint hope that something new will emerge from the midst of those who are not happy.
You would be surprised. I worked on a marketing product for a major agency. This product heavily utilized the Facebook Ads API, and I can tell you that it is extremely fraught with problems. Often times we were left to work around issues in the API as fast-tracking a fix was near impossible even being a PMD.
The only prediction of his I find interesting is the Twitter one. I think he's extremely far off base. Twitter won't be a top 30 tech company by 2020, they'll barely be relevant at all. They're losing steam now, and it's going to accelerate dramatically over the next few years. Twitter failed at its original mission: to be a communication platform. Mostly it's a one-way celebrity gawking platform. WhatsApp, Snapchat, and numerous others accomplished what Twitter was supposed to be, but never became, and in the process they've made Twitter nearly pointless. In another six years, 140 characters will be viewed as a curious absurdity; teens in 2020 will laugh when they realize it derives from limitations on messaging from the pre-smart phone era 15 years prior. You'll know Twitter is sinking rapidly when they lift the 140 limit out of desperation.
Well, except for Windows (which insists on UTF-16/UCS2), as far as I can see we are at that point. Modern Linux distros have come configured with everything set up with UTF-8 for years. Fedora has been that way since Fedora Core 1.

I don't know what OSX is doing.. I would assume that normally it is pre-configured with UTF-8, but somehow that was lost in his setup. I don't have an OSX machine to confirm this though.
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I'm using it to write a book right now.

It is a mixed bag, largely because it is still in development. It is wonderful for authoring content - I can freely mix latex, code, output all together - you don't have to wonder how I generated that plot, the code and data is right there. OTOH, no section numbers, not quite WYSISYG, no way to hide code if you only want the output, and other minor things make me wonder if I should just use the tried and true latex workflow.

If I am just programming I prefer an IDE like spyder (I do mostly math-y type stuff).

A big annoyance is it's interaction with git. If you regenerate the output, git interprets that as a big file change, and the repository gets polluted with nonsense commits. There are workarounds, but none are perfect.

In general it is really great where you want to mix text, images, html, and python. So, great for presentations {audience: 'what if you change X==3', you: 'here you go'}, for paper writing, maybe less than great for full on book authorship or general programming.

But these are nitpicks. I love IPython Notebook. Even if I end up in the traditional Latex workflow at the end, it is so easy to keep code, text, and output all synced up with the notebook compared to the alternatives.

You can also run more than Python in it. IJulia supports running Julia in the notebook, for example.
It includes the pirated PDFs the "authors" used to learn C.
The attacker could send different Ks to each user so that K decrypts C to a different plaintext.
Yes, a big corporation with big pockets means more money and stability but it comes at a cost. The cost being whatever you do must at the end of the day feed back into the pockets of your parent company. Twitter used to be a platform too but how many third party applications do you see now? A lot less than what it used to be. What do you think will happen to Oculus applications? Those that are sanctioned by Facebook will thrive and those that aren't will be brutally shut down.

At the end of the day this isn't good or bad. It is really more about long term disruptive technology and its viability outside giant dens like Facebook and Google. Looking around I don't see an ecosystem that can support such things without giant corporate backers and that is definitely not a good thing because at the end of the day the values of our corporate overlords tend to be slightly misaligned with that of the individual.
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Interesting that the comments on the article make some good points, including that the UK has about the same / a better deaths per capita than Sweden, despite it being the exact opposite type of road environment

[edit: clarified wording some]
PCs have been a commodity for more than a decade now and Apple is still selling Macs at good margin. I think for Apple they like to view their hardware as part of a experience which includes iOS,App store,retail stores and of course the Apple brand itself. As long as they can move meaningful number of devices to be relevant like Mac i think they will be fine. May be not top 3 tech company but i don't think Apple should care about those things.
Yes it is a problem and last I checked, there's still no working PoS implementation that doesn't rely on central check-pointing. "Slasher" is an idea (likely full of unforeseen issues), not an implementation and until there's a working implementation that doesn't rely on central check-pointing, PoS is vapor-ware.
Can someone explain how the 2+1 lanes work and how they would reduce road deaths?
the brilliant proprietary lock-in is actually iMessage. once you've been using it for a while with others in the apple ecosystem, getting out is amazingly painful since your contact information is cached as iMessage capable for weeks on your contacts' devices. you can call apple support to remove the number from your icloud account but it still needs to time out in your network.
Similar, in a sense, to the mistake Microsoft made (IMO) by naming two very different products "Microsoft Surface".
Any of them. The main point they are all standard, so you can use convertors, cables, chargers and so on. USB has U in it for a reason. Using proprietary ports in this day and age is so backwards and user unfriendly, that it's not even funny.
This seems wrong from an engineering AND MBA point of view. As designing and manufacturing electronics becomes more automated, the workflow for designing computer hardware will be very similar to software development (it pretty much already is).

From an MBA perspective, Apple just owns more of the value chain in software, i.e. some of the silicon via the mobile processors, and the proprietary cases. Other than that, most of the hardware follows pretty closely with the industry standard tech [intel's roadmap]. They don't seem excessively tied up at all.
For example, if an honest blockchain solved a problem of great importance to me (value = x) and even by putting a small amount of work (value < x) into mining the blockchain I could protect myself (say withdraw from action during double action attacks) then you can create a system where many people are mining, making the entire blockchain more secure each while guarding their own interests.

Wouldn't a rational actor free ride instead of mining? Also, the total hash rate needs to be high enough to prevent 51% attacks, so there's no guarantee that your cost of mining would be smaller than your benefit. A blockchain that doesn't pay miners seems to have an equilibrium where trolls 51% it into oblivion (as has already happened with some scamcoins AFAIK).
Thanks. Weird. I looked into the source (not a web developer) and I didn't see any suspicious. This confirms that it's probably my configuration.

Just to be sure. Chromium 34 works just fine.
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> The average user wouldn't care much about proprietary ports.

I think the opposite. More than once I've heard people asking me for a charger or phone cable. When those people happen to be not with Apple devices everything works just fine (microUSB, you know). When they happen to be with Apple devices they can't use them and need to look further.

They do care, since in such scenarios it's clear for them that Apple cripples usability of their devices for no reason by preventing basic ports interoperability. I often point it out for them in a sense "so stop using Apple". They say "yeah, I know it's stupid, but what can you do".
Most inter-city roads in Sweden were 2-lane roads, where to overtake, you needed to swerve into oncoming traffic, 2+1 roads means that even if you're stuck behind an RV or truck, it won't be long before you can safely overtake. At least that's my assumption...
Wikipedia says Swedish drivers can't get a fully-privileged license until they're 20 or 21. Compare that to the U.S. where in many states a 16 year old who took a single practical driving test is considered fully qualified. I wonder how much of a difference that makes.
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I wonder if the level of violence in Mexico changes how people see these internet tracking and retention bills? If any government official could pull your blogging and twitter history, seems like it could have more consequences than in America. But it still seems like only a small portion of the population cares... guess all around the world everyone has life issues that limit their expression of political will.
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Wow, that just goes to show how ignorant Milton Friedman is...
I said it in this thread before: if it's working for you, that's perfectly OK. I don't mean to imply you're wrong. Whether you believe Wikipedia is the pinnacle of what's possibly achievable with human knowledge, or whether you merely think it's a pretty good compromise that delivers satisfactory results - if you're within that spectrum I'm not talking to you.

If that's the case, my statements are not intended for you. I'm not trying to convince happy people that they're actually sad. I don't want to convince anyone that something needs to be done. I tried to reach out to people who already believe that it's time to start experimenting with alternatives. For everone else, absolutely nothing needs to change.

Yes, I use Wikipedia every day. But that doesn't mean I believe we can't do much better (at least for a deeply subjective value of "better").
If you try to decrypt C with any key other than the K that was used to encrypt it, you'll get gibberish (the decryption process will fail).

As far as I know, it isn't possible for an attacker to generate a message ciphertext C such that two different decryption keys would both decrypt to valid plaintexts. There can only be one valid decryption key; trying to decrypt C using any other key would yield random output, wouldn't it?
Hence the continuous transcript consistency feature of the TextSecure protocol. Meanwhile: I'm curious about your answer to the question 'sdevlin posted downthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7701510

Does your transcript consistency rely on the security of your server?
I am not, and have never been, a Ruby user.
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I'm more of an Apple(/Jobs)-hater than most on this site, but even I have to admit the Lightning port is so much prettier and more user-friendly. You can put it in upside down or downside up -- it works both ways!

Though, I vaguely recall reading that some future iteration of USB is going to go that way, it'll be nice to get that finally.
I see you point but it should not weaken the security because encryption happens at the client, Google "only" gets metadata which at least authorities will get anyway.

Besides, TextSecure is free software so it might possible to run your own server at least in the future.
This is my version of a paper generation site. Unlike most you see out there, it doesn't have a bunch of PDF files it downloads, nor does it use a PDF generator on a server. It creates the paper in the browser on the fly using a HTML5 canvas and prints that out.

It works best on Chrome at the moment because it allows a true page image to go out on both Mac and Windows without any extra margins. Down the road I'm going to add more stuff to it like double sided pages, Cornell note-taking paper, the ability to customize lots of characteristics (like color of the lines and dots drawn), etc.
Apple made a connector that they hope might last for 10 years like the 30 pin connector. During that time, USB has gone through mini, micro a/b and now the micro USB 3 connector, and the USB forum recently announced that they are working on a new connector that should be reversible like the lightning connector. Meanwhile, Apple can choose to implement any standard they like in Lightning, just like the 30 pin connector has supported analog and digital audio, composite and component video and HDMI, all while keeping the connector backwards compatible for the main features (charging, USB and audio).
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I am surprised nobody has pointed out the typo in the title
Read original source (http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/ambidextrous-c... ), it's directly specified that it's a name for ARM core.
Sorry, Thomas, but after you repeatedly replied to my private requests for conflict resolution with threats and abusive remarks, I refuse to interact with you entirely, publicly or privately. Those curious as to why I'm saying this should read Ptacek's other comments on this thread for a primer.

Zed Shaw was right: http://zedshaw.com/essays/thomas_ptacek_should_apologize.htm...
Lack of interoperability defeats the purpose. What use is there from such port if you can't use a commonly available charger or USB cable when you forgot your Apple proprietary one at home?
I can assure you that L3 and Cogent are not seeing the marketplace shrink. 10k quarterly files from each discuss their growths and vulnerabilities.

Historically, eyeball networks have paid for transit from backbone providers. As market consolidation occurred, the cable providers with government granted physical monopolies were able to negotiate for better settlements with their transit providers.

Eventually, the cable companies condensed with the major telephone companies. Some of the new mega companies have backbones and can use their own networks for transit (Verizon, AT&T, ...) others (Comcast) were able to use their size and access to their customers to negotiate largely settlement free exchanges.

However it is important to note that ALL eyeball networks have 1:5 to 1:20 demand ratios. This is the nature of content versus consumption. There is no new news regarding these ratios, and they are not particularly germane unless attempting to engineer the flows.

The real and pertinent issue is that Comcast has not lived up to the 'timely upgrade' clauses in boilerplate (NDA'd) settlement-free peering agreements. Clearly they have an advantage to "defect" from the standard cooperation model. Netflix has chosen to change providers several times, and recently provided data on whom they pay for service.
And the iPad. Oh, by the way, Apple has been on and off as the top PC vendor in the world for the past 3 years...
Regarding the contrast, this is worth a read: http://contrastrebellion.com
I have flashblock, and since this incident noscript.

This seems to be a problem related to Mozilla's javascript interpreter, since Chromium works fine (and worst do not affect other versions and platforms). It's not flash nor other embedded issue.

The problem do not block the ui just consume an insane amount of resources.
Well, there were magazines. Nintendo Power started pretty late in the 80s, but it was also I think the first place I heard about the minus worlds.
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I think back to myself at 16 and cringe at the thought of me being allowed to drive a car...
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It saddens me that this is news. I really wish a modern editor like this was more actively developed. It just seems like 5 months and 4 small items in the changelog is insufficient for sustainability.
Wish I could say the same :\. The top result for "David Celis" is a LinkedIn directory of people with my name. The first result that's actually me is my Twitter account, at number 3. My actual homepage, http://davidcel.is/, doesn't even appear on the first page. Guess I need to become more important?
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Or mounted above the mirror.
Free just doesn't buy enough transit; they are not a tier 1 provider.
Any port you use daily where you have a 50% chance of plugging it in upside-down is a pain in the ass and broken by design.
Hmm, what if standard libraries were available in multiple natural languages? You could always serialise the code as English, if you needed to interop with a multilingual team and that happened to be a good common language, but at display time, the identifiers can look however you want according to your locale and the available translations in the library.

Of course, if you hypothesise that API design could be influenced by natural language, then you might worry about things getting lost in translation. But APIs that use English words aren’t much like natural English already.
Of course there can be a benefit in making their own connector. The downsides of lack of interoperability are however way stronger and part of the intention there is clearly to prevent such interoperability, which normal user should find insulting.
Instead of writing your comments for Thomas, why not write them for the HN community? We're all very interested in hearing your thoughts. Thomas poses some good questions; why not consider answering them for us?
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It's hard to visualize 4d and 6d systems. That's what I was referring to.
You'll have a head start on Romanian as well. Probably you could understand quite a bit of it without doing any work at all.
What's the relation between the server and the SMS verification when setting up the app? I haven't tried TextSecure in a while, but when I tried right after you announced TextSecure v2, I kept getting failure to send me the SMS, and I had to receive the robo-call. I had a friend from another country who experienced the same. Is that still a problem?
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Stripe inexplicably does not offer payment pages.
Okay, I'm sold!
Why does he think Facebook will survive? Given the lack of concern it has for its users it's more likely to be the next MySpace.
Level 3's filing with the FCC about this: http://www.level3.com/~/media/Assets/legal/l3_openinternet_m...
I hope I'm not mistaken, but my understanding is that you can have the same message C that would decrypt with K1 to the plaintext "Hello world" but with K2 to another plaintext of your choice ("Jello Warld" or whatever.)
His reason for selling was that he was (it turns out rightly) concerned about Jobs' health and didn't feel that Apple was behaving honestly with its investors w/r/t the public statements about it. http://avc.com/2009/01/selling-apple-a/
There several "gnostic gospels" from all around Roman times, that mention whatever the authors intended. It's not like those are unknown, it's that they don't reflect the canonical body chosen by the Christian faith.

It's like discovering a fan-fiction of Star Wars were Obi Wan is a cross-dresser. Might be amusing, but it's not the canonical version of the story. It's not like yet another gospel can change that.
Many things could be better than USB. But U in its name made it the preferred choice. It's like e-mail. Way not perfect, but ubiquitous. Apple not adopting it is clearly anti user in this case.
Thanks for the discussion everyone one :) Glad you feel its worth talking about!

A little history just for fun:

- I launched: http://quixly.com back in 2010 after a year in development. It was the first app i had seen that got rid of the idea of a shopping cart and let you pay URLs.

- Then I launched Space Box in 2012. The goal was to make Stripe user friendly for the non-developer.

- Plasso is now the first step in something bigger I want to tackle. It's my host desire to replace paypal... but i've got a ways to go. Still need to polish the selling tools on Plasso.. then attack the buyer's side of things.

I've been at the digital delivery game since 2009 really, its fun, but a lot of work. I really love Plasso (obviously ;) and my favorite thing about it, which sheds light on it's future is the 'Pay Me' feature: http://plasso.co/drew@drewwilson.com have people pay you easy peasy. Soon to have bank & bit coin transfers!

Anywho.. i hope this is the start of something big. We'll see.
But that is in conjunction with a browser fingerprint right?

I don't follow that DDG not being able to save anonymous queries disregards their stance on privacy?

Surely for the best experience you'd want DDG to do this anonymously.
The only reason? They struck lightning twice - with the iPad.