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Here in the UK, Maplin Electronics are debt free and profitable with a fundamentally similar business model to the old Radio Shack. Piles of radio control cars and weather stations at the front of store, cables and miscellaneous electronics accessories in the middle, components at the back. Maplin thrive on their lack of focus - you go there when you need a Lighting cable or an RJ45 faceplate, and you leave with what you came for plus something you didn't know you even wanted.

It seems to me that the only real difference is the quality of management. Maplin were struggling in the 90s, but were bought out by a private equity firm who turned the business around. There were no radical changes in direction, just a lot of incremental improvements to their core business.

I think that Radio Shack have far too many stores, and the management is fixated on finding a silver bullet for the company's woes. The complaints I hear about Radio Shack seem to be mainly issues of basic merchandising and customer service - their stock is erratic and outdated, their staff are indifferent and poorly trained. If your basic pitch is "we know you can buy this stuff online for less, but we offer convenience and service" then you actually need to follow through on the latter.
Yeah, this is one of the most frustrating things about Google. They're opaque to reduce gaming of the system, but that same quality makes it easy to accidentally choose something Google doesn't like. I'm going to stop short of calling Matt Cutts a liar, but his word isn't always right. Moz seems to tell the truth as they discover it. The only interactions I've had with Google essentially lead to "why don't you spend more money on Adwords!" Well, I won't go into a full rant... hope your traffic recovers.
> Why not just use a good old-fashioned earpiece?

You can do a lot with that, but you could do a lot more with the AR/VR setup I've described. The assistants could see the body language of participants and take that information into account when formulating advice. (In fact, assistants could flip between multiple POV and gauge the body language of a sampling of the crowd or all of the key players.) If an assistant has a piece of side knowledge, like they happen to know on sight that someone's brooch was made by a famous craftsman, they could provide that as a conversation starter and help the executive score points. If an important person is walking up from behind, the executive could be alerted to end the conversation and so she can present her argument first.

As often noted around here, one can do more with more data. The AR/VR combination I've described would provide that additional data.
So you're telling us that accidental death is okay as long as it isn't in the millions? How did you decide on that number? Where is the line drawn?
Yes, that person is still an unprofessional idiot.

If a doctor accidentally removes the wrong organ because administrators have overscheduled him, "whoopsie, not my fault" is not the appropriate answer. The same applies to engineers working on bridges. Professionals take responsibility for their working conditions.

There is an enormous shortage of programmers right now. Anybody shipping stuff that is bad or dangerous is choosing that. If we drop our professional standards the moment a boss makes a sadface, then we're not professionals.
Sometimes I really wonder if it would have been better if evolution stopped at monkeys.
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You're assuming the early employee equity made up for what they lost in salary. Or that it even became worth something afterwards. Or that equity even makes up for the base salary cut you receive when working for a startup, ignoring this collusion.

Also, if their base salary were higher elsewhere they could likely demanded even more equity. So even if you're assuming the equity isn't worthless, they potentially could have gotten more if salaries were higher.
> I don't think anyone's actually seen this in the wild yet?

I have. It's a simple thing to test as well.
My god so many incredible links of crazy blogs here...

I took a certain pleasure in the opposite recently, by writing on a few simple .html files on an Apache server with headers in <h\d> and content in either <p> or <ul>
> Not on Debian or Ubuntu, and that's most of them

Perhaps I should have said "sane systems" ;)

Fedora ships with that alias by default FWIW.
There weren't any 'early versions' of Grasshopper. Grasshopper was a single test vehicle (and it didn't use hypergolics, it just relied on gimbaling the single Merlin it had).

The first stage has cold-gas thrusters on board for attitude control, but has never used hypergolics, AFAIK. The only hypergolic engines SpaceX uses are the Draco and SuperDraco, which were never on any first stage cores.
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I think the issue is not the bug count, but that Microsoft tells Google "we will release a fix on day X," and Google says "X is past an arbitrary day we chose, so sad" and discloses a zero-day. Some people think it's an irresponsible PR stunt by Google, others that Microsoft would just put off fixes forever if Google didn't do this.

Maybe there's a similar story with OS X, but there doesn't seem to be a public record of it.
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… I don't think anyone does that.
This has nothing to do with exit, and suggesting otherwise implies bad faith on your part. (The exception is if you've literally never read anything like the remainder of this paragraph. In that case, you can demonstrate good faith by admitting here that your argument was faulty, and countering similar faulty "exit" arguments from open borders advocates in the future.) You can leave your job at any time, but when you do so you can't require another company to hire you, and it's blindingly obvious that changing this state of affairs would destroy some of the best companies. Right of exit, which I support, is protected by refugee treaties and free world military power. A huge wave of unskilled immigration is practically certain to weaken the US enough to increase, not reduce, the number of places like North Korea that are outside the US's military reach.

And your "Chinese or Indian citizen" example actually counters your own argument. Both countries have far too many people for the US to absorb, and both have also succeeded for the last three decades at raising living standards for their native people by more than would be possible via any achievable amount of brute-force migration to the US (though they have a lot more to do). Chinese and Indian "right to pursue happiness" has very little to do with US mass immigration policy; trade policy, technology transfer, Pax Americana, and the like have been far more relevant for a long time.

And even your "extreme example" fails spectacularly. I am Chinese, I voluntarily work for a Chinese-owned company, I've spent most of the last four years in and next to Shenzhen, and these years have been very good to me.

With all that said, I do support loosening restrictions on migration when doing so is actually positive-sum, and I think Chinese and Indian student immigration to the US frequently qualifies. But right now there's no way to push for that without simultaneously pushing for far-more-negative-sum policies.
Yep, the collective "we" got what "we" wanted.
I just read the article and looked at the image and it's still really unclear. It looks like you lost all your traffic immediately prior to switching to the subdomain and nothing in the article said otherwise.
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How many times have you done "ls; cd <xx>; cd ..; ls; cd <yy>; etc"? With that tedium in mind, I set out to create a simple ncurses utility to combine ls and cd. As luck would have it, actually implementing the directory changing functionality was done last. I guess I have to chalk this one up to experience.
Yep. I'm not really in a board game crowd but I still look in from time to time.
I think, there's nothing wrong with the country to put their citizen before foreigners. Citizen pay taxes and work for overall good of the country, so it's logical at the very least.

I'm saying this as an immigrant myself. I wish the path to citizenship would be faster and easier (and I've seen people stuck for 10+ years on H1, while having kids and buying houses), but I have to respect decisions, the country the gave me a chance, made.

I'm not sure about "their fault for being born in a different country" - I've never made this statement.
Now we just need same day drone delivery for them and Fry's. That would be so handy.
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Not one but two (nearly identical) references to "The Princess Bride" have been flagkilled. I understand not wanting to devolve into reddit, but is HN really so humorless? This is life imitating art, people. In this context, such references are 100% on-point.

He wasn't the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. The real Roberts has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia.
I can't fault Google for that. They've released subsequent versions of Android that has fixed the vuln in WebViews.

Also, they took a major step in Android L by removing the WebView from the Android Framework and distributing it via the Play Store, thereby, enabling them to push security updates to all newer devices without the devices themselves having to update to a newer version of Android to get security fixes.
I agree with you. Many groups would claim another group isn't Christian, especially as the definition of "Christian" has shifted and changed throughout the years. A good article outlining some main points is here - https://www.lds.org/topics/christians?lang=eng. (for the record I am a Mormon, and a Christian. :)
What are you suggesting? That he may be guilty of assault regardless? I'm not understanding your comment in context.
Does that explain why Pocket fails on that blog? Every few months I pocket something from it and then am disappointed when it comes up blank while I'm on a plane, etc.
Right. So close down the legacy business and start something new. Whether you do so within the existing corporate structure is for the lawyers and investment bankers to decide. Pop quiz: What's Woolworth's these days?
So what, your definition of a solved problem is one that never occurs again due to uniform implementation of countermeasures? That isn't realistic. That is like saying that plane geometry isn't a solved problem because people are still walking around having not read Euclid's "Elements", doing geometry wrong.
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There's also a WordPress plugin called "Jetpack". Both are so different areas, that I don't think it matters much. If it happens that either project is actually bothered by mine and reaches out to me, I'll be happy to talk.

I've checked for name conflicts in related areas, in package repositories (FreeBSD ports, Debian's and Ubuntu's archives), major open source hosting services, and haven't found anything related. Let me know if I missed anything relevant.
Yet, video recording does not make any sound on phones.
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Not to mention the power supply - what's going to run the pumps when the engines are shut off?
DPR Karpeles = DPRK = Democratic People's Republic of Korea = North Korea! I knew the North Koreans would be somehow involved!
You mean in the Netherlands or in China?

As a whole, the Netherlands have one of the highest population densities in the world. Per city, I am sure China has some of the denser cities in the world.
I own a Sony Z3 which arguably is one of the few smartphones cameras which people might called as good or better than an iPhone. It also has a physical shutter button which is a major benefit (particularly in terms of time to first shot).

And I will happily acknowledge his point that sharing socially is a major smartphone benefit, and one I myself make use of. That's why on my last vacation I would swap to my smartphone just to grab one "for Facebook." Since I could share our vacation with friends and family literally on the day we were doing it (which much akin to "I was here" postcards is fun).

That all being said I won't be giving up my dedicated camera just yet. My phone has a very good sensor, in particular as my main camera is m43 like the OP's one was (except the sensors in recent m43 cameras has improved considerably over the GX1 the OP had).

However the main reasons why I wouldn't even if they both had the same sensor is, firstly the physical controls on my camera are vastly superior to any "app." I can control every major camera feature literally with my eyes closed (and in low light I may have well have my eyes closed). Two wheels, about five Fn buttons (completely re-bindable) and full focus control (both AF and MF).

My camera has a multi-touch touch screen but I rarely use it because much like my phone it is unintuitive/slow. It is great for reviewing previously taken photos/pinch-to-zoom and so on, but for actually photography it is meh. It is maybe useful for selecting auto-focus points (without having to scroll).

Then my second reason: Viewfinders. Regardless of if they're EVF or OVF, viewfinders are an absolute gem to have. In strong sunlight you can actually see what is going on (!) which is often hard on even the best screens. At night there is no "light leakage" in particular with long exposures. You can shut the camera's LCD off and just press your eye around the viewfinder to have no back-glow at all.

My third reason: Lenses. This is totally cliche, but there are limits to digital zoom. Optical zoom doesn't reduce image quality as highly and then whatever you accomplish with optical zoom you can then digitally zoom for further magnification.

Then last you have a whole bunch of "tiny" things like: better flashes (smarter, more powerful, more directional, etc), tripod mounts, a better (bigger) grip for more stability at slower shutter speeds, better IS (due to bigger servos), and near instant startup (plus sling straps for ready to shoot in under 5 seconds from your hip and off).

So until Apple releases an Apple camera with tons of physical buttons/dials/hot-shoe and so on, I will keep my camera, and use my phone for Facebook family snaps.
The "rm -i" alias is a horrible, horrible idea. Red Hat has a lot of stupid defaults, but this is probably the most questionable one.

The useless confirmations on every deletion is so intrusive that people will instinctively try to work around it. In the best case they'll undefine those crappy aliases in their own shell config, or maybe gravitate toward writing /bin/rm rather than rm to avoid the alias expansion. In the bad case they'll learn that "rm -f" will override "rm -i", and get in the habit of using that to shut rm up. Too bad that "-f" does more than negate "-i"...

People who don't actively work to circumvent the braindamage will almost certainly end up reflexively teaching themselves to just answer "y" to the prompts without reading. Or worse, they'll learn to depend on the prompts being there, and doing "rm * " when their intent is not to remove everything. "Yeah, I'll just answer 'n' for the files I want to keep". That's going to be a really nasty surprise when they use a machine without that alias.

No. Just no. Don't do it.

The solution in zsh is much better. Warn for "rm * " (or "rm * .o", etc) no matter what, since that's both very dangerous and very rare. But don't waste the user's attention on every single deletion.
>A self-destruct button really doesn't make sense

Bryan--you mean Star Trek didn't get it right? Well, at least they didn't allow shell scripts.

It's an interesting philosophical question though. At what point do you decide that the user truly really can't want to do this even though they've said that they do?
>Given how HN leans due to the vast majority of members being young left-leaning idealists with little real life experience

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>While I don't have any data

Ugh
I think it's not so much even knowing there's a camera, but knowing there's a camera which might be on and streaming to the cloud at all times. Yes, I know there's a little light. No, no one is going to trust it.

There aren't a lot of random spy shops down the corner, and not a lot of random stalkers sneaking upskirts of people on escalators with pen cameras hidden in their shoes.

You could make the argument that cellphones are far more powerful as tools for surveillance (and they certainly are in regards to surveilling their owners) than Glass would have been capable of. And you would have a point - for maybe the first couple of generations, and before there were several million Glasses in the wild. At that point, being a random stalker becomes socially acceptable, and being randomly stalked becomes unavoidable.

Consumer AR isn't entirely dead. I've seen it on portable game consoles. But Google's attempt to literally shove it into people's faces demonstrates that there are more than technical hurdles to overcome.
No. Ponzi schemes do not have a reserve, and there are no salable assets available for paying back the entirety of the deposit.

Asking an easily-refuted question like this is little more than petulant foot-stomping from a Bitcoin aficionado upset at the reasonable comparison between Bitcoin and Ponzi schemes. It reflects poorly on the author.
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Your analogy is flawed. What is happening instead is someone is making a lamp, and then putting a sign on it says "LAMP is a lamp that lights your home! It's compatible with electricity and is under no warranty, express or implied!" and offering to let you take it home.

And you seem to have missed the part where I explicitly said that both commercial and noncommercial software should be exposed to liability lawsuits. EULAs are a waste of everyone's time: anything distributed in an executable format should expose the distributor to liability suits for damages.
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I can access Baidu from the US... but they clearly aren't trying to get my traffic -- the site is in mandarin.

So I don't understand why you think they're trapped... if they wanted to, they're free to expand outside of China.. there are few countries that have similar censorship.
Wouldn't such people use Word or Pages rather than markdown though?
Thats the honest truth. Its hard when success at conservation and sustainability is directly at odds with nearly every other metric of success we as a species hold dear. Not to say we shouldn't try to make changes, and there's always hope. But its a bit like trying to stop a speeding train while being inside the train and leaning really hard against the wall.
I can actually answer some of that. The first flights were unpressurized and there was no door to break down. The first commercial flight was a Benoist seaplane which flew that trip under 50 feet altitude, though it could fly up to 1,000 feet. The first KLM flight (the oldest airline company still in service) used an Airco de Havilland 16 in 1920, a year before the first pressurized cockpit.

Therefore, no one would have asked about problems with low atmosphere or opening doors.

The Wright craft used wing warping, and not flaps, so people didn't ask that question. What if the motor stopped - that's a much more critical question. The Benoist seaplane flight above had problem part-way through. The pilot landed on the water, fixed the engine, and took off again.

As for runways, the Wrights landed on the sand in front of them, the same as Chanute did earlier with his experiments with gliders on the dunes of Michigan. The first airplane flight in New England used a frozen lake surface. Early on people used large fields, like Penn Field or Roosevelt Field. The movies of Lindberg show there wasn't really even a marked route; I assume the better to align with the wind. Runways as we know it took a while to exist - they were airfields.

While I understand your intent, it would have been better to omit examples rather than make ones up. Otherwise your ahistorical comments affect my interpretation of your ability to judge an appropriate development cycle. People aren't talking about problems which might occur after 20-30 years of development, but rather problems that are well-known already.

This would be like telling Félix du Temple in 1870 that steam engines aren't powerful enough for a flying machine to carry humans.
Google is not responsible for supporting Android. Android is fully open source, and OEMs are responsible for their devices. AOSP is distributed under Apache 2.0 license https://source.android.com/source/licenses.html which stipulates there's no warranty or support.

Google supports Play Store and related services, but webview on 4.3 and older is not part of that.
I may have misunderstood the defense, but how does that make any sense as a defense? You don't stop being guilty of running an illegal drug marketplace just because you pass the running of the illegal drug marketplace on to someone else.
Google HQ is officially a "dog friendly" campus, and dogs are welcome in the engineering offices, where some bark. Some owners respond by taking their dogs outside immediately, but others just shush their pet, which of course resumes barking half a minute later.

Polite requests to take it away are met with "Oh, she's usually not like this, I don't know what's wrong, I'm sure she'll be quiet now..." And nobody wants to be "that guy" by telling the owners to take their dog and GTFO. So the dogs end up staying.
I think a flat negative income tax is the way to go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax

When you earn a dollar, you lose 30c of your basic income. Once your basic income is eaten up in this way, you lose 30c out of your income as tax.

This means that the incentive to earn each subsequent dollar is essentially the same as the last. Of course, I'm sure someone smarter than me has a better idea of what:

1) The basic income amount will be
2) What the flat tax amount would be

The idea is that this would be both a tax reform action and also a replacement of a lot of welfare programs.
They are collapsing right now or already collapsed. I am right now trying to reconcile the need for direct action and the chaos it would cause for a lot of innocent people, including death and suffering, which seems inevitable as they will experience that if nothing is done.
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It's the ultimate example of the bystander effect. Everyone is waiting for someone else to take charge and do something about it. There are plenty of things that can be done by individuals right now though.

Learning about that stuff is a pet project of mine, and the main reason I bought a farm and started converting it. I'm hoping that it will prove possible to make economically viable replacements for a lot of the more damaging parts of our civilization. The parts I'm working on are food production and energy use. Whether these things will work is an open question so far, but I do think there's reason for hope.

As far as humanity waking up, I think it's more productive to think in terms of how much of humanity is awake since that gives us a measurable quantity that we can actually influence. Hopefully, we'll be able to present people with a solution that actually works and doesn't require big action from on-high. If it doesn't screw up their quality of life, and it's good for the future of humanity, I think there are a lot of people who would make some changes.
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