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Just because other issues exists in the world doesn't invalidate issues elsewhere. There will always be someone who has it worse than you.

The next time you talk about your "feels" as you put it, see how you'd feel if someone guilted you because at least you're not a starving impoverished child with ebola in a third world country.
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> rewriting that application would have been a disaster

Or the best decision ever made by the company.
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Not really, because the money "funneled into the economy" was first extracted from the economy.
Not really first. Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect were already entrenched in businesses, and there were rival office systems for Windows from IBM and Novell. Microsoft Office won by being better and cheaper, but it took a very long time to displace 1-2-3 in particular.

hackuser's points about the cost of labor and the enormous potential cost of mistakes are very well made. If you are paying knowledge workers $50,000 to $150,000 a year, then saving pennies on the cost of Office is not a smart move. When mistakes can cost your company a lot more than that, even more so....
Thanks, that demo is all courtesy of Sandstorm - all I had to do was add the link to the README.
At this point I think it's hard to compete with SO because it's so clear-cut and full of questions and answers for common things.

"Running out of questions." comes to mind.

Also, off-topic, I don't think being in a top percentage is something to brag about or a sign of merit. I've done nothing but ask stupid questions on SO and I was lucky to be there when the site was new (lots of high-coin questions!) and I'm in the top 5%.
> Using your logic you have to send me all your passwords. I'll take them by email please.

Where the heck was that written? That's not how Public / Private Keys work AT ALL.

> (And don't bother to PGP encrypt them as you can't trust the Debian GnuPG maintainer either.)

You do realize you can download, review, and compile from source? It's called Open Source for that very reason.

I expect more of an educated response on Hacker News than the one you have just demonstrated here.
Even things like /etc/machine-id
that tax argument isn't compelling at all. i don't think apple should use big sellers to cover the costs for indies, it makes no sense as a private company. It does make sense in society as a whole with income.
Sure they do. You won't be accurate to the penny, but quantifying this stuff can be done. Even getting to within an order of magnitude would be useful.
Right, I only use it on Linux so that's why I was confused. Thanks for the clarification.
It's tough to set any simple firm rules that maintain the right incentives, because (roughly) each byte incurs costs on every node storing/verifying the blockchain, while any set one-time fee can only be collected by some subset of those nodes up-front.

Thus you can expect continuing push-and-pull negotiations, perhaps requiring a separate system of continued payments, if you really want indefinite, reliable, unalterable storage.
Easily discover vulnerabilities, and deal with them before they become entrenched in your code.
The British successfully fought against a communist insurgency in Malaysia from 1948 - 1960. It's one of the more commonly referenced examples on how to combat guerillas and insurgents.
Search for "Malayan Emergency" if you want more information.
This whole thing - I can see it coming and am fully convinced that it will. I just can't work out how to leverage that insight for personal benefit (not millions just modest advantage). Feels a little weird for once I'm ahead of the curve & recognise it as such but still can't seem to leverage it. My profession isn't anywhere near AI or even tech so it's a little difficult.
FWIW, I think that the tendency to push things into extensions is a huge net negative for hg consistency and learnability.

VCSes are complex tools and it takes a little while for people to understand the data model and how it maps to the command line UI. This means that people new to a tool — or just new to a particular project's workflow — will often have "how do I do X?" type questions. With git helping people is pretty easy; you just sit down with them and go through the set of commands they need to achieve what they want, explaining the operations on the tree along the way (if necessary). It's even the sort of thing that you can do over irc without too much difficulty.

When using hg there is a whole extra level of complexity because the default setup isn't actually suitable for use in real projects; to get something useful you first have to enable a bunch of extensions. So given a random user with unknown configuration it's hard to know what commands are even available to them without diving into a configuration file, possibly downloading some random python scripts from the internet, and so on. For example the Mozilla source tree has a whole mercurial setup script that configures about a dozen extensions, a few of which are providing useful Mozilla-specific functionality (e.g. bugzilla integration), but most of which are plugging holes in the hg featureset.

I also find if baffling that, given git exists, when hg developers integrate ideas from git wholesale — something that is on the whole positive — (e.g. bookmarks as an implementation of local branching), they conspire to do so in such a way that the experience is jarring for people moving from git. To me it seems obvious that if you are coming second in a space with strong network effects, you don't go out of your way to make it painful for people to switch.

I get the impression that at least some mercurial fans expect it to win in the enterprise, citing organizations like Facebook optimising it to work with their giant repositories. But it isn't clear to me that there's much trickle-down effect from there; most smaller projects simply don't have that much source to control, or the ability to enforce the kind of homogenous environment that forgives many of the shortcomings of mercurial's UX.
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> If you think one of the ways people are trying to solve it should be forbidden, that's fine. Please share an effective alternative.

We all agree about "send me teh codez", obvious duplicates etc.

If however this is the biggest problem then why is asking a question still one of a few things you can do without having rep?

If this is really the problem then raise the bar oh so slightly until you don't need to organize voting rings and detect duplicates at a speed that results in more than a few false positives.
Yeah, that and the $1500 computer to write the software.
Portugal also has a national ID card that's a smart card and includes a key. The last time I tried to use it in the justice ministry website it required accepting a self-signed HTTPS certificate. When I reported the issue I got a "oh, just accept it and it will be fine" response from a supposedly technical person.

So yeah, these things are getting deployed in some places but I'm not too hopeful it will end up being much more than a gimmick. At least I hope not because the next step on the minds of some of these "technical" people is electronic voting and that won't end well...
Because by his math a loaf of bread costs $0.06. Do you know where I can buy a loaf for that price?
At my last job, something I tried to push unsuccessfully was a company-wide automation initiative.

Imagine a company-wide incentive structure for automation whereby if you automate 90-100% of your job, you receive massive bonuses. If you completely automate your job, the bonus could be the entirety of your annual salary as a single payout. Or perhaps a combination of bonus and equity.

So now you're out of a job. But if you can automate other jobs in the organisation, you also get bonuses.

Eventually the majority of the company becomes automated, hopefully generating the same or greater revenue and value for customers, with less overhead costs. Which is great for any stakeholders who can continue to receive revenues, but terrible for employees. So it would be good to include some kind of equity and/or revenue sharing model. The sell could then be "hey, let's all work together to automate this company, we'll get bonuses for doing so, and when the whole thing is automated we can continue to receive income while sitting on the beach".
Not that you can replace "Note that you can replace "woman/women" in the above with any minority/disenfranchised/disadvantaged group"" with "Note that you can replace woman/women with any person of any group who faces hurdles or has disadvantages"

When you can do that, you have successfully transcended the "gotta get mine!" and "shut up and give me your stuff!" subtext of most of today's egalitarian rhetoric.
And "payment processing" doesn't even tell the whole story; Apple is effectively collecting and passing on sales tax for you, and dealing with all the other bullshit that comes with being a merchant.

That's huge, especially for solo developers who just want to make stuff and not actually run a business. 30% may be a little steep, but I'd say it's worth it.
I actually don't disagree with you at all, I'm just acknowledging the obvious counterpoint to that argument, that's all.
I'm not sure how long ago you delivered papers, but I delivered papers in the 90's as a kid and was an independent contractor.

I worked for a paper in the 2000's, not as a deliverer, but their deliverer's were all independent contractors.

These were two different papers at two different parts of the country, I'm sure not all papers handle it this way but I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case for most.
I'm not sure your "all or nothing" approach is feasible. Reducing your attack surface is a worthwhile security pursuit.
I was one of those who left. I let my adminship elapse after 10 years.

I also don't contribute much to SO, or to any SE properties, despite being on the early public beta. (remember the signup as a google spreadhseet). I'm ID 479 on SO.
But the cryptographic scarcity and consensus of Bitcoin may be just the thing to solve certain longstanding issues with DHTs, by increasing the cost of Sybil and DoS attacks.
AI comes up a lot but in my opinion there is no guarantee that it will ever actually exist.

AI is by definition is artificial and the lines between artificial and non-artificial will be blurred very soon as BCIs come around.

If we take all deceased people's brains and throw them in a pool of goop that allows them to talk to each other and connect them to a BCI so that they can communicate with the rest of the world, is that Artificial Intelligence?

I predict that we will have ultra-intelligent humans/transhumans and advanced AI might or might not ever come into existence.

As expected, DARPA is leading most of the BCI research programs at the moment. I'm not sure how I feel about Super Soldiers and modifying humans, that's a huge topic in itself.
Right, which means that there will be a disproportionate number of FreeBSD developers running it. These developers have commit access to the source tree, including -STABLE and -RELEASE.
I know those stories, and yet they switched from motorola to intel back in the days, they created a larger screen iphone which proved to be a best seller, and they've recently announced that ios 9 would be a "hardening" release with no major new breakthrough features.

I think we shouldn't confuse marketing studies ( which they may not like), with customer feedback.
This is disingenuous as shit. How does anyone who has a passing familiarity with minimalism have the nerve to write 'how is it pos­si­ble to be “the best” while of­fer­ing less?' Especially with the admission later in the article that yes, he designs tools with deliberate constraints.

I could certainly get behind an article arguing that Medium is bad for writers because of the centralization, loss of control of audience, etc. But this one isn't it, because it doesn't appear to acknowledge that some writers don't want to automate their own Wordpress themes (except with the dismissive 'if you really believe that' aside which I'm not counting).
Will the individual who broke it get the credit?
You mean burn the possible government infiltrator. From now on, _all_ changes at the crypto layer should have double plus eyes looking at every change (and I don't mean the five-eyes).
Usually closed as non-constructive (I think that's S.O.'s wording).
I'm thinking we need to revise the "No Singletons" section of the KJ (Cap'n Proto / Sandstorm) style guide... ;)

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/capnproto/blob/master/style-...
I have noticed the same thing I do not visit the site all that often I usually check it once a fortnight or so in my lunch break. I tend to browse the "Linux" section. Everytime I visit it feels like Deja-Vu the same questions keep appearing, there will almost always be questions like "How can I get my program to run as a daemon?", "Why am I seeing Zombie processes?" and some variation on "How can I get the PID of my running process?".

Quite a lot of questions seem to have a negative score or are locked for seemingly no good reason and the ones that aren't are questions like the above that are easily googleable.

A lot of the time it feels like the person asking the question hasn't bothered to a) read man page or b) do a google search beforehand or they lack basic knowledge about Linux - such as what the /proc file system is for.
The point of having tapered rates is well established as being progressive and fair. Governments do this with income tax. The basic premise is that $1 means more to a person with an income of $10,000 per year, compared to a person with an income of $100,000, or a $1,000,000. It therefore follows that developers earning less money are not as able to pay as those earning higher incomes. A flat rate favours bigger developers.

If Apple wants to promote diversity, then they should have a progressive system, and lower the barrier to smaller developers.

This actually may prove to increase Apple revenues ultimately by helping smaller developers stay in the game over the long term because their business would not have been otherwise viable.

Adding income tiers is not that more complex.
I agree that its not for nothing and does help cover legitimate expenses Apple incurs. That said- its not a one-way street. The app ecosystem is one of several key drivers for iPhone/iPad sales- that alone probably justifies the cost to Apple.

Also- the point of this pitch is that the extra revenue means much more to smaller developers than it does to Apple, and that Apple in fact wouldn't lose that much revenue from such a scheme.
That's a good point, and an idea I hadn't thought of.
Saturday Night Live has done good political satire over the years.
> But I think in the end, American audiences want to see the good in people, especially the main characters. If not good, at least some humanity.

Perhaps it's a misunderstanding, but when British people "take the piss" they're not trying to suggest someone is subhuman, it's more often than not just playing with the absurdity in everyday life. It's not done with malice in mind, we "take the piss" of ourselves as much as we do others.

It's partly a freedom thing too, you can slag off your mate to his face, and they'll do the same back to you, because you know you don't mean it. You really need to be comfortable with someone to do that though, wouldn't recommend it as an ice breaker. ;-)

Here's one American who gets it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU7L3D8Ndqo
Incidentally I'm reading Sipser's book for a philosophy course right now.
Amazon has never made a profit, they are a case study example of a company that never has gotten out of the red, losing money on every product and still growing to become a monster.

Xbox BTW is a good earner for Microsoft, they lose money on the console and make a killing on each game.
Lumia and Surface also showed very good profits from Q3 2014 and onwards. And Windows Azure is probably the only truly profitable cloud platform out there with 25-30 bln dollars in yearly profits (not income).

Amazon is losing billions on their cloud, and on every other product they run including their store, the only time they got out of the red was 2009 after 15 years in business and that was never repeated again.

In 2014 both MSFT and Amazon had virtually the same income Amazon even made 2-3 bln. $ more. MSFT has a net profit of 28 bln, Amazon lost 250 mil.

There is more to business than just revenue streams, but as revenue goes MSFT is in a very good shape.
The first issues I see are:

1) Apple is the most profitable company in the world, deals like this are why. It wouldn't behoove them to take less money than what is available on the table.

2) It would leverage Apple to promote only high grossing, high selling apps. This would change the way developers market and sell their apps. And provide disincentive to work on it more after it reached a threshold (maybe).
I really wish there were better options on SO for dealing with "offtopic" questions

Sometimes a question seems like someone is just asking for an answer, like posting their homework, and hasn't tried anything or even googled at all for help. Maybe those questions should be closed and deleted with prejudice but if I was giving the benefit of the doubt I'd prefer to move them to "pergatory.stackoverflow.com". I guess that's what they are by closing them but.

But, often there are noob questions that are similarly frustrating but giving the person the benefit of the doubt maybe they really don't know where to start. If wish I could click a button that said [Move to noob.stackoverflow.com] or something like that where people with more patience or that just like helping noobs could be more helpful.

I also wish it was easier and required when marking as duplicate to provide a link to the duplicate.
There was some sarcasm in my comment above and I didn't fully detail what I meant.

The point was that something doesn't become ok just because it's targeted at non-citizens or the targets are more limited than simply everyone. (Unless other context can justify it... but we're being kept in the dark). It's still dragnet surveillance. Similarly torture is wrong and no amount of "targeting" can change that. So I think there's a disconnect in people who oppose mass surveillance but approve of this. I presume many people ok with this malware are opposed to torture; it wasn't to be taken literally.
A key point that many developers miss is that IF you are marketing your own apps, the split is not 70/30, but 77/23.

In explanation, you join the iTunes affiliate program, which gives you a 7% cut on sales in the app store. I really don't understand why this isn't more widely known.
No they don't. It's reasonable to trust that FreeBSD is providing decent RNG. Even in the dev branch. I mean, why would they not?

Don't blame the user for upstream's mistake.

Do FreeBSD developers (I mean, the ones who had nothing to do with this but also use the dev branch) "deserve" it, too?

In general, do you always blame the victim for someone else's mistakes?

edit: I am not a BSD user. I am reading now that the dev branch is purposely crippled anyway and known to be terribly unstable. If that's the case, maybe it is idiotic for non-developers to use it. I'll leave this comment here instead of deleting in so nobody else says the same thing. In the meantime, I'm glad to be using a rolling release Linux distro that always has bleeding-edge software without ever having any problems.
> What you really need are more voters voting. Not sure how you get there, though.

Or maybe, as I have already answered ircmaxell, Stack Overflow could raise the bar for asking questions ever so slightly from being the one thing you can do without rep?

If torrents of new users asking stupid questions are the biggest problem on the site this seems like a first obvious step.
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I'm happy to see people thinking about this sort of stuff.

I foresee a Constitutional Amendment limiting the amount of computational power any private person or entity can own. Each person, upon birth, would be granted a certain allotment of computational capacity. This computational capacity can be hired out, but you collect it's paycheck. If you take this to the logical extreme, everyone could own the robot that replaces them at their job, and live out their life collecting it's paycheck.

Check out Marshal Brain's "Manna", where the concentration of wealth nightmare scenario is taken to it's logical extreme. (I don't find the scenario very convincing, but the thought to get it there was useful.)

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
App store discoverability is a problem, but it hasn't slowed downloads at all. Most app discovery happens outside the app store.

Putting money behind discovery at the outset is key. If you had that 30% back, you could invest it into ads, promoted posts, etc.
But that's how security works. Reducing the surface area is great, nothing wrong with that. However, the system is only as strong as the weakest link. E-mail is hilariously insecure, so just avoiding a single layer, API, or applications and calling it done is not enough.
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In case you were wondering, that argument is known as the fallacy of relative privation: "an opponent's arguments should be dismissed or ignored, on the grounds of there existing more important problems, despite these issues being often completely unrelated to the subject at hand."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation
But in the second paragraph:

"there are no tools implementing MITM against an SSH connection authenticated using public-key method ... Being pressed to produce a PoC for this attack, I have attempted to implement it only to discover it is quite impossible and here is why."
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Just because it can't cover every single case and application doesn't mean it isn't worth using it for those where it fits. It's an interesting question how far one would want to go to support these special cases, because doing so adds complexity to both code and the things the user has to understand, but the nice thing with an open system is: we don't have to use it for applications that don't fit the model very well or can allow exceptions where needed.
>What's more human than ______________?

Fill in the blank. Different cultures have different conceptions of what's more human, or what kind of drama moves them most.
I really can't imagine 100% unemployment, because I think there will always be a demand for actual human people in some roles: hairdresser, waiter, singer, prostitute, masseuse, athlete, actor, croupier, etc.

Will robots/AI be good enough to do all these jobs? Sure, they might even be now. But as long as some people want to be sung to / served by / entertained by an actual flesh-and-blood human, there will still be employment in those sectors. In fact I wouldn't be surprised in the far future if those service positions were the most valuable in society, since that's where real scarcity will be.
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> People funnel money into the military because they are afraid of terrorists and whatever else is the flavor of the month.

Do you know any individuals who personally decided to funnel money into the military? It's an insatiable beast fed by political breakdown and cronyism.
It's not journalism, it is an opinion piece. Hence the tag "Commentary". It doesn't need to have the utmost journalistic integrity or writing.

It just happens that, what she experienced and how she interpreted it, resonated with a lot of people.
In some cases, Apple is even taking on the burden imposed by tax laws. In the recent changes to EU VAT, both Apple and Google took on the added cost burden.
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