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> "Mobile is the future" didn't pan out,

Really? Please enlighten me.

A recent mobile phone, such as an iPhone, has approximately the same computing power as Deep Blue when measured in Flops, i.e. the same as a super-computer from 15 years ago. It's about as powerful as a PC from a half decade ago. (And it's currently made of aluminum, rather than plastic.)

Moreover, Apple's iPhone revenue (just the iPhone) is in the same ballpark as the revenue from everything sold by Microsoft.

As for the equipment rate of smart phones, it's steadily growing higher than PC equipment rates. This is particularly true in developing countries and in lower-income segments of the population in developed ones (both groups are Android users for the most part). In both cases, a smartphone is becoming (indeed, has become in the case of the former, since they often skipped the PC step altogether) the main device they use to access the internet.

I'm not really seeing how "mobile is the future" didn't pan out... Please, please, enlighten me.
Note that they assume that every team is equally likely to win or lose any given game.
Not that obscure; lots of hardware vendors use Linux in their routers/TVs/tablets/phones/etc and distribute the sources separately. In fact, every manufacturer of Android phones should have such an offer included with their device.
Having developed on both android and ios, the platforms and the ecosystems leave a lot to be desired, not to mention I feel like I'm running a expensive dumbed down computer in my pocket.

If I want download a file on my phone and pipe it into another process, I shouldn't have to download an app that exports everything on the phone for w/e purposes or write one when a simple script would do…
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>What has lead you to believe that free speech is any consideration in Sony's dealings?

Call it artistic freedom if you'd prefer. It's all a form of free speech and I'm not sure that Sony has ever come out against artistic expression.

Regardless, I think it's pretty clear that the shoe is on the other foot now. That point, of course, is essentially the main premise of the article on which we are commenting, and it's what makes the situation so sweetly ironic to its author(s).

But, you know, it's all P.R. and all about messaging (from both sides). Sony doesn't have to really believe in free speech for everyone in order to make a stand on that premise. They are surely aware that standing on their right to make a profit probably wouldn't engender as much support or be as effective as standing for artistic freedom, free speech, etc.

And, of course, all of this discussion about what to call it is pedantic, because my bigger point was that they have an opportunity to turn this on its head and have it completely backfire on the attackers, thus providing strong disincentive for future attacks.

>It's unclear why the release was canceled.

I think it's pretty clear that, at least in part, they were tired of having their asses handed to them. In short, they were punked.
Here's a more useful video of Kiva robots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UxZDJ1HiPE

This one shows the picking station, where the humans take things out of bins and put them in other bins. A computer-controlled laser pointer points to the item to be taken out, and a light shows where the item goes, and a bar code scanner checks on the human. The job takes about two minutes to learn, and full productivity for new humans is achieved in about half an hour. There is no possibility of promotion. Machines should think. People should work.

Kiva is a huge success. Before Amazon bought them, they had about 20% of online order fulfillment in the US. It's higher now, with Amazon using them. Kiva is so successful because it's so simple to install. All it needs is a big flat floor with some bar code stickers, a supply of cheap shelving units, and the robots. All the robots are small and interchangeable, so they don't have to be repaired on-site and there's no need for expensive on-site technicians and repair shops. So converting to Kiva robots is fast, cheap, and easy.

Automated warehousing isn't new, but it used to be a lot more complicated and far more custom. The older systems involved conveyors, machines that moved on tracks, extensive site-specific and product-specific engineering, and good onsite maintenance. Here's a state of the art version of a classic automated storage and retrieval system in a frozen foods warehouse. (The frozen foods industry has been heavily into warehouse automation for decades, because they work in a sub-freezing environment.) This is impressive, but look at the sheer complexity and number of moving parts involved. All those belts, motors, lifts, and sensors, and all dedicated - if any of that stuff breaks, it has to be fixed, not just bypassed. With Kiva, any dead robots can be pushed out of the way and dealt with later, off-site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuvrP1QKsdk

Here's a direct competitor to Kiva. This approach, with tiny robot cranes, is less successful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-G70CivfLM

Another competitor. This one uses an overhead robotic crane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peef_5W9nOQ

Compare the mechanical simplicity of the Kiva system.

Kiva was started by one of the executives of Webvan. (Remember Webvan - first dot-com boom?) Webvan offered same-day delivery a decade ago. It was popular. It just cost too much to provide that service. If they could only get rid of all those warehouse employees and complex warehouse machinery... Well, they did. Most of them.

But humans are still needed to take things out of one bin and put them into another. For that, there's the Amazon Bin-Picking Challenge:

http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/

Win up to $26,000 and eliminate 30,000 jobs at Amazon. Entries for the first round closed in October.
I was surprised they're using Cisco. Some Chinese hardware (Huawei ?) would make more sense : both are back-doored, but at least the Chinese are kind of allies.
You might want to put contact info someplace, most people put it in their HN profile.
It doesn't matter if most paying customers are on IOS(which I dont know if it is the case or not,it's just that specific case where global market share is not that relevant).

It's a bit like TV,where a tv show can have loads of viewers it doesn't matter,advertisers are interested only in a specific demographic.
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My hindrance is that no one responds to any form of communication via the internet, targeted to specific people who could benefit from my product. Sure, it's basically relevant spam, individualized for the person receiving it, but for an aggregation service, how else can I know what people think of my product if no one actually sees it (aside from being on Twitter, et al, which also isn't helping much).
Here's a site with pictures of more than 50 (!!) early electric cars:

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/overview-of-early-electric-ca...
I wish there was more substance to the Rust section. Most of it is in strike-out and the remaining text has more to say about how you would do things in OCaml than Rust.
Wikipedia has a great map of ports to registered and common services: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_number...

Nmap can scan and show the application and version based on various responses and req/response fingerprinting: http://nmap.org/book/vscan-examples.html
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Does anyone here know of a single infosec professional who thinks DPRK committed the attacks?
The App Store quickly became a lowest-bidder marketplace with flash-in-the-pan hits here and there and state lottery level probability of success. We jumped in and gave it an honest try in the education category. We soon realized we could make a far greater impact and have massively better control with equivalent web-based products. We can control the design, marketing, business model, interface, analytics and more.

Right of the line the value proposition is enhanced by the fact that you can easily differentiate from a sea of crappy free mobile apps and we can communicate directly with our customers with depth and personal engagement.

On iOS we had to deal with such nonsense as not being able to disable multitouch gestures frim the app (and only for the app, not globally). The use case being small children or developmentally disabled children, where multitouch gestures can range from a distraction to a usability nightmare.

Anyhow, this is jut to echo some of what you said about web dev.
>> We live in a world...

You mean, "We live in a country..."
what I still really don't understand is that Sony is a Japanese company, why is the US government suddenly involved in this?

Surely if NK wanted to "cyber-attack" the US it wouldn't do it through a Japanese company. Or am I missing something?
> They aren't going to obsolete PC's.

Considering you were criticizing the author on his grammar, you made a mistake yourself! "Obsolete" is an adjective, not a verb.

Also, I like your distinction between traditional PCs for creation and mobile for consumption. Mobile devices can do little in the way of content creation, disregarding the simple apps that allow users to change basic properties, such as add a filter to an image. However, I see mobile eclipsing PCs merely because the majority of people have no need to create content and merely would like to consume their favorite media.
LiveCode is a serious, legitimate, cross platform successor to HyperCard. It's a pretty sweet programming environment. But beware the GPL license with the Community Edition, which requires that any code you originate with the Community Edition remain public domain, even if you get a commercial license.
There's nothing exclusive about the two. Good systems should be self-justifying.

But if you want decent travel times the current BART can't provide them. You'd need something like Personal Rapid Transit to get good trip times at the intra-urban scale. But the same argument you are making here - envy of something that doesn't even exist - is why we keep getting the same transit systems that are hard to grow because they don't provide enough benefit to enough people.
Agree with original sentiment.

Part of the future.

More serious work in the arts (imaging, music, architecture, etc.) and sciences is simply a ridiculous suggestion to accomplish on mobile devices. Horsepower, input / output contexts, technological hurdles, and a plethora of other issues make mobile devices simply useless in many of those contexts.
They happened to have the perpetrator there, if they had caught the wrong guy and threatened torture, they could well have got a confession and a load of false information. Also, there are plenty of situations where you have the right guy and they still feed you bullshit, like in the example of John McCain.

The thing isn't that threatening torture occasionally works, it is that it generates false information just as readily. It is extremely unreliable and in the process it also turns you into something despicable. Nietzsche had it right when he said: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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Do you think that if they had a choice, a real one, that they would be fine with it?

Perhaps, if individuals were to have more say in what, where or how much of there taxed money gets spent on. Or, if to go even further, they had the a real choice in whether or not they even gave money to the state?
The key assumption here was the soldiers considered themselves "bitter foes". I'm not sure this was the case. It required "court martial" -- ie. throwing soldiers against the wall and shooting them -- to resume the fighting in some cases.

I think that anyone who lived for more than a couple of weeks on the Western front came to the realization that the people engaged in the fight had more in common than not. The officers and rear echelon folks shot thousands of their fellow countrymen who cracked under the pressure of constant bombardment and death.

So as a soldier or junior officer, you faced certain death both in front of you and behind you. Survival meant huddling for warmth in a fetid hole. Those poor bastards were cogs in a murder machine -- the only "golden ticket" was losing a limb.
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Would be interesting to test this in data such as these: http://www.tylervigen.com/
I'd be curious to have some benchmarks to see how Power compares to X86.

According to IBM their architecture is miles ahead Intel, but there's never a real world bench to prove it's not just marketing.
Thank you. Yes, that reflects my preference. I come to HN for deep interesting information that's also well-summarized and well-discussed. I may or may not always read through to the journal article, depending on my interest in the area, but I value the article link, the summary, and the discussion.

A high quality summary is important. For example, I would not grasp the significance (in the general case) of an HN post linking to an Arxiv paper titled "The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications". The summary will tell me that this is claimed to be (part of?) a proof of the Poincaré conjecture.
It would be helpful to know how technical you are and at least something about the ideas and prototypes that you have.
Because we still have/need PC's.

Mobile is a new market, a new branch of computing, so naturally there is going to be a lot of growth there. A lot of people don't need a full-blown PC at home, so a phone that lets them check facebook and read articles covers most of their needs. And as you mentioned with india: computers were simply not affordable for most, but smartphones are. But again, this is just growth potential and untapped markets.

Businesses will still use computers, as will gamers, developers, writers, filmmakers, accountants... and so on. Mobile has helped them, but it hasn't obsoleted PC's. We still need them to create the things to be consumed on mobile devices.
>Considering you were criticizing the author on his grammar, you made a mistake yourself! "Obsolete" is an adjective, not a verb.

That's not quite right. In the context of American English, "obsolete" can be used as a verb.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obsolete#Verb
If there's no license then you can't incorporate the code at all. "It's hard to find the license" is not an argument. If you can't find it then you have to assume you can't use it.
You're right, so I sent the Tor Project a donation through paypal. They're a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Sonitus post hoc ergo sonitus propter hoc.
"IF EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS EVERYTHING THAT’S GOING ON, THEY WON’T HAVE TO WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO TELL THEM WHAT TO DO."

This isn't very efficient. At any one point in time, there could be many, many projects that need to be completed. How do I know what to work on? I've worked at many companies and things usually change quickly, which I don't think can be reflected in just an email list.

I'm curious, do all of the upper management use this system too? So if an employee named Frank is going to be let go, will they post this to the mailing list? If not, they aren't being very honest and it's just a system to further control their employees and presented like some sort of great, new, process.

I also can't see people not changing their habits. Today, you can get fired over saying the wrong thing and being "offensive". Why would I want to take the chance and send it to the list?

Even something as simple as "Merry Christmas". I might have a co-worker that thinks it's fine (so I send it to them). But, it offends people on the list because I'm not saying "Happy Holidays".
It's worth noting that the engineer in charge of the project is very into cryptocurrency: http://ryanxcharles.com/archive/hold-more-bitcoins-than-you-...
Sony Pictures, is an American subsidiary of Sony. The headquarters and employees are all based in Los Angeles. These are American employees whose emails and social security numbers were leaked, American employees who received death threats, American movie theaters that were threatened with a "9/11 style" attack, and an American produced movie that has been suppressed. While perhaps the Japanese government should be involved as well, I think it's quite obvious why the US government would be involved.
why is it that Amazon cant just put a much higher bounty on that task?
of lets say 1m$? it seems that this would increase the competition by a huge amount and if that can get amazon 1 year closer to fully automated picker it should be wort it.

The payed around 700m$ for the kiva bots, so why one 30k$ for that competition?

Or dont they beliefe in markets?
> "Obsolete" is an adjective, not a verb.

Merriam Webster recognizes the verb form of obsolete. The example is from 1936:

> "For radio itself deliberately obsoletes today what it built yesterday." —David Sarnoff, Television, 1936

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obsolete
Related: https://github.com/kislyuk/ensure

A (relatively) high performance runtime annotation type checker.

from ensure import ensure_annotations

@ensure_annotations
def f(x: int, y: float) -> float:
return x+y
Maybe we need a monthly networking thread on HN. A place to talk about what you are working on, what you need, who you are looking for.
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Here's why: SFJulie1's comment came off as rambling and somewhat incoherent, if not a little childish and rude. In the past few hours one other account has popped up here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Ronaldo777 ) posting equally trollish comments in this same specific thread...

Just to give you an idea where SFJulie1 is coming from:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2pwkcl/help_nee...

I think mikegioia was perfectly reasonable in calling out this comment, it is trash and he was right to recognize it as such.
Why would you be sampling at a single arbitrary point like that?

I'm interested in how things diverge at all scales.

Imagine two identical snowing days, except on one of the days you remove the 6 feet of snow on the mountain. There wouldn't be any difference in the amount of snow that falls? Or the local and global temperatures?
so was the hack restricted to Sony Pictures only? Nothing else was hacked?
Thanks for the grammar lesson! I love language and articulating correctly. I know that wasn't your purpose in pointing it out, but I appreciate the correction all the same.

There's a difference between making a mistake, and just paying no attention at all to grammar or spelling. Wasn't asking for perfect, just that he try.

Yes, I agree with your later point; most people don't need a PC for what they want to do. Or in places like india (as another HN user pointed out) there is huge growth because they're affordable, versus PC's which are not. But people will still need PC's for work, for school, and for play; so it'll be interesting to see the long term effects.
Yup. Last week cloud+web was the future. Now it's mobile. Next it'll be Internet of Things and nobody will ever fund another mobile startup.

SV is ridiculously trendy and short term. It's not wholly irrational, but a function of how VC works. If growth is under 20% it doesn't exist. That's what they mean when they say PC is dead, etc., and of course mobile will be dead the instant growth dips.
Apparently it's US only. Pass.
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“I screwed up,” Shrem told U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff. “The bitcoin community, they’re scared and there is no money laundering going on any more."

Does this claim have any basis?
I don't know what this has to do with being cheap: my generation just doesn't care about the same exact purchases that previous generations did.

It seems like this entire article could be explained through increased urbanization. As more Millenials choose to move into (and stay in) cities, one would 100% expect:

* Decreased car ownership (public transport is definitely preferable in an urban environment)

* Decrease home ownership (you're probably living in an apartment)

* Increased communal living (space is more expensive in a city)

None of this has to be attributed to some inherent "cheapness." I myself am choosing to live in NYC and don't plan to buy either a car or a house anytime soon, but that doesn't make me "cheap" (my Christmas spending would definitely beg to differ).
>Once you're up against a state, all bets are off.

This is a gross oversimplification.

Some states are much more capable than others. The US and China probably have more digital offensive capability than everyone else put together.

Some targets are much easier than others. Larger companies usually present a larger attack surface. Some companies don't care as much about security. If you're one person with really good OPSEC practices, you're substantially harder to go after than a large organization.

And, of course, all security is a matter of degrees. You don't need to have perfect security; you just need to have security good enough that the group coming after you can't justify the expense of circumventing it.
FWIW:

> Develop in their own hardware and OS

Strictly speaking this is still true, though a Hackintosh isn't hard to setup.

> Closed minds : iPhone SDK policies states that you cannot share what you are making with your fellow

I think something is lost in translation here. You can certainly share code, there is loads of it on github. Perhaps the author is talking about the core iOS source...?

> No choice in language and tools

This may have been true in 2010 but it is not true now, you can write iOS apps in Ruby, Swift, Objective-C, C# and a few other languages. There is also the excellent App Code IDE if you don't like Xcode.

> Big boss has to approve your application in order to reach the users

Sort of, ad-hoc distribution is an option (though a pain in the ass). But if you want to write an app for 10 of your friends, or whatever, you can do so without going through the App Store.
Ah OK. I thought that maybe it was for emphasis since the rest of the English is decent.
This was an interesting technical article about the publicly visible networks inside a closed country. Nowhere does it mention Sony or "The Information". Your comment is probably off topic and I think a bit conspiracy crazed.
The general population doesn't know or give a shit about the torture report. The educated don't really give a shit beyond shaking their head while reading the report in the Times, or posting a link on their FB saying that it is 'shameful.' Sad, but true.

We've known about these practices for years. The Abu Ghraib scandal was 11 fucking years ago. We've known about waterboarding and Guantanamo for years as well.

All of which is to say, I think if you believe that the U.S. government needs to create a false flag operation to bury the report, you are seriously out of touch with the political reality. Public apathy will bury it for them.
This far more relevant to HN than anything to do with the torture report.
interesting! I get how it might not be "correct" but this explains why i didn't feel bad about it: all those examples are well within my use cases.

I do care about my articulation and clarity, so I love these kinds of insights.
So you are complaining because a movie isn't 100% fact? The same can be said about movies, newspapers, blogs, and anything you read on the Internet (including your website).

And why are you also surprised that a movie based on Facebook is an advertisement for Facebook?

I'm not surprised about this and you shouldn't be either.
No, that wasn't my point. My point that the film picked a target where it doesn't matter if it offends.

The film studio quite deliberately decided not to make a film about assassinating Vladamir Butin, or Angela Derkel.

I also find such a plot puerile. That was my point. Also read my original last sentence.
And a top speed of 25 mph.
A lot.
Source: I'm a doctor.