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I'm not sure you can say that most people didn't want the first iPhone.

Sure, they weren't already picturing "an iPhone" and thinking "I want that"—but there had been Star-Trek-PADD-like-devices in the popular consciousness for ages. People were cognisant of a hole in their lives, that any number of hypothetical things within a previously-empty product category could fill.

Apple's job in marketing the iPhone (and iPad) basically consisted of convincing people that "the future had arrived"—that they had created the first product to meet that known nothing-exists-that-can-meet-it need.

I would say the same of the first internal-combustion-engine automobile. There were carriages, there were trains, and so people could see that in the intersection there was some efficiency to be gained in everyday life if the technology could be created to capture it—though it wasn't really clear what form it would take.

I think this is where wearable/augmented-reality tech is today. People know there's something there, can see the potential of the product category from all the sci-fi movie UXes we've ever been subjected to—but nothing has really been an example of a real product that would sit in the as-yet-hypothetical space. We're still reaching toward the space, rather than landing in it.
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What do you think about the idea of a non-profit generic drug manufacturer?

I've always thought Medicare would jump at the idea of slashing its drug costs, but undertaking something like this is a crazy huge project.
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> Wow, monodraw is a really polished app. That's a fascinating business model, too - your own idea, or inspired by another? Are you planning on giving users notice when the beta period is about to end?

Thank you for your kind words :) I think the business model has been inspired from the indie scene over the years. Simply put, I do not want to charge customers before the product is of quality that I deem adequate. That's why the beta is freely available without any restrictions. If anyone feels generous enough to support us before v1 ships, they get 40% off in return.

Yes, I plan to provide ample warning over email, Twitter + our blog.

> I'm not 100% sure I'll really get regular use out of it, but I'm tempted to buy a copy anyway, mainly because I think you deserve reward for the effort that's obviously gone into it.

I greatly appreciate the support. Even if you don't purchase it, knowing that you like the app is enough to motivate me to further work on it. From a financial perspective, every purchase counts - as an indie, my livelihood depends on the apps I make, I don't have any other income.

> If I could wish for anything it would be this: is it even remotely possible for shapes from a plain text file to be interpreted as monodraw objects, rather than just one big text field?

That has been requested a few times and it's something that I'm considering. It's not very high on my list but if I receive enough requests for it, I'll bump up it. I don't have a roadmap that is set in stone and I'm pretty flexible when it comes to the development of Monodraw - I'm willing to listen to the users.
Exactly. It's not that interesting to be in a forum where people are only awarded for being in line with the popular opinion. The alternative is to award constructive contributions.
No, if you purchase the beta (and register it with the serial key), it will never expire.
XPM isn't monochrome either, though. I always thought XPM was an elegant hack, since I could just #include my icons into the C source for my Xt or Motif applications. I don't miss the rest of Xt and Motif, particularly the pseudo-object-oriented C style code, or the twenty kilograms of O'Reilly books containing the documentation!
I apologize for finding it easier to contrast "Latin America and North America" rather than "Latin America and North America minus the one part of North America that also happens to be Latin American." I thought my meaning was fairly clear.

Europe and North America are very big places too. Both have regions with differing cultures to various extents, as well.
I agree. A poster below said it might be better to express this as, "Solve a problem that people have". To which I would add, "...and cultivate the market for your solution". This would eliminate the implication that something should be automatically "wanted" by people for it to be successful.
People have a fairly strict limit on the kinds of counterfactuals they can conceive, and thus use as "measuring sticks" for evaluating the actual facts. Even the very imaginative still require a leg up in terms of being told, sometimes, being supplied with information, that what their mind had registered as constant was actually quite variable.

Ayn Rand didn't change her views. Period. She was just blatantly self-serving.

Most people do not support some Moral Ideal of Death. They just consider the actual dying bit inevitable. This is why they will change their minds once you show, in the real world, that it's changeable.
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I am a friend of a friend of lokihardt, and yes it was a solo effort. Very impressive.
If you can overcome the high capital costs, I think it could be very successful. You may want to check out One World Health which is a nonprofit drug development organization that does incredible work as well.
Or a __RESTRICT,__restrict segment/section. ;-)
Since it sounds like you're now out of it and have nothing to lose, could you elaborate?

Any advice for those now getting into content-based websites that would be supported by banner ads or affiliates?

(edit out of prompting questions that sounded like I was looking for help on being a bad guy on the internet)
IMO downloading extensions to change your OS is not too different from downloading additional software to do the same [1][2].

[1] http://bahoom.com/hyperswitch

[2] http://superuser.com/questions/548146/change-command-tab-to-...
I remember Bob Beck saying it was one of the three fonts that works with MagicPoint and the one that is most readable on projector.
>MRI executes Ruby via an interpreted stack-machine bytecode language known as YARV

On Wikipedia:
>Since YARV has become the official Ruby interpreter for Ruby 1.9, it is also named KRI (Koichi's Ruby Interpreter), in the same vein as the original Ruby MRI, named for Ruby's creator Yukihiro Matsumoto.

So is one of them wrong? I'm confused.
Exactly. The core concept here is defining images for icons in the code itself, rather than loading them from external resources. XPM was one early way of doing that, allowing you to define bitmapped images in a static array of characters representing the pixel colours, and was a very neat hack. Now this extends and improves the idea, allowing you to define images for icons in your code, using an array of characters to represent the lines in an image, and define a vector graphic. It's definitely in the same conceptual space, although there doesn't seem to have been any direct inspiration from the earlier format. Both are very cool ideas...
Affects it good or bad?
I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. Are you lamenting the difficult interface between distro package managers and language package managers? Or lamenting that language package managers haven't learned the lessons of previous package managers, distro and language alike?

I was lamenting that Opam 1.1 wasn't dealing with a trivial package installation situation. I mentioned Debian to indicate that was the source of the version I was using, implying that there may have already been a newer version out there that I could've been using, but then explicitly saying that 1.1 should've dealt with the situation in the first place.

FWIW, I definitely agree with the terrible situation of language package managers in general. I use Python sporadically, and I'm always scared of running pip. Virtualenv I'm very unhappy about because, while it definitely fulfills it's task marvelously, I think it shouldn't even have to exist in the first place! Why doesn't core Python deal with the problem itself, searching for dependencies in the main script's subdirs, the user's libdir, and lastly the system libdir? Admittedly, I don't know the intricacies of the Python ecosystem that prevent that.
I think Canada is just a few years behind the States. Three years ago, Google Fiber didn't exist, and the same comparisons were being made between the U.S. and South Korea as are being made made between Canada and the U.S. today.

I think part of the reason we're behind is simply that, despite the extreme cultural similarities, American content providers take a shockingly long time to bring their products to Canada. We're just not a high priority. I really don't think anything sets Canada apart, and in a few years we'll have the same demand for Gb broadband that the U.S. has today.
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And for those who aren't keeping track of the timeline, NeXTSTEP predates C++ templates. Large portions of this could have been done with 1989's Objective-C and the graphics capabilities NeXTSTEP had at the time, though this tool does benefit significantly from some newer syntax.
It's odd that people with apoe4 had much higher incidence of the swelling side effect. Why do you suppose that might be?
The poster is probably being deliberately vague, because the barrier to entry in this industry is low.

If you have something that works and share it with the world, you'll quickly find yourself with 1000 competitors. They'll probably be poor competitors, but because of the nature of SEO, they just might outrank you for no good reason at all.

Or the competition might bid up (at their loss, but yours too) whatever you need as inputs (like traffic sources).
Unfortunately, it's very unlikely. I'm a Mac developer and that's why Monodraw is written for OS X (in Obj-C).

I'm a supporter of all platforms but I do not have any cross-platform desktop GUI skills.
I think it's just the OpenBSD crew having fun by watching people cringe.
>But why not just draw it instead of, well, typing it in ASCII?

Because programmers typically prefer typing in ASCII to drawing :-)
That only applied to Xen's paravirtualization mode (runnning a modified guest OS as an unprivileged process), not the hardware-assisted virtualization.
> When requested to install a second package with overlapping dependencies as a previous package, it would try reinstalling all dependencies

This was unfortunately a mistake made by upstream Debian. Rather than reimplement the constraint solver badly, we use the Aspcud external solver. An upgrade of Aspcud changed its command-line interface, and OPAM 1.1.0 wasn't upgraded to OPAM 1.1.1 at the same time (which detected the new version of Aspcud and worked with it).

A similar issue (to do with the libdose interface) has been in the Ubuntu package ages and not addressed by upstream despite a detailed bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/opam/+bug/1401346

> Searching online found recommendations to get the latest version from Github

What else could we recommend?

It's really frustrating to know that a source-compiled OPAM works fine, but that the packaged binary versions are broken and our only recourse is to wait six months for the next OS release of Ubuntu. On the bright side, the OPAM 1.2.x series has been very stable and is now making its way upstream, so this is hopefully a temporary issue.
OpenSUSE is still shipping KDE by default, and it's pretty usable in recent versions.

That said, Kubuntu is still very nice. I'm glad you are using it to show off free software to new people!
Minority report.

Big Data crime prediction. We have gait recognition already.

Super specific ads. We have targeted ads based on your browsing history and location.

Self driving cars aren't that far away.

Personal freedom and intrusion of police becoming daily events.
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The best way to get 10x pay is to get paid for project completion, not by hour.
> massively inflated salaries

Is it really fair to say developer salaries around the $200k mark are being inflated?

Developers work can have an impact on millions of people, yet we keep expecting all of this work for a $60k salary.

I've found that only developers/programmers do this self flagellation, almost all other professions complain about $200k being too low, not too high, and expect more. (Lawyers, Doctors, and even some electrical/mechanical engineers)

It's just a shame, as I find it hard finding good work as a programmer as my peers fight for lower and lower salaries.

I had a naive hope that this industry would mature and fight for higher salaries, but whenever I see programmers getting paid half that of a Lawyer or Doctor, self flagellation start to come into play.

Such as shame for an industry with the most potential to change the world.
I think it's more fun to consider the widespread "hate" of comic sans, and considering whether it is really "bad" or just band-wagoning.
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Is there a hacker news, or somethings similar, for business news?
Yeah, you're right that salt is in the water already and isn't technically waste. I just called it that because as a 'left over', it feels like it's waste.

However... it doesn't mean much that salt is in the water already. You're taking the water out, but leaving all the salt. That can't be good at all.
Actually this is not quite right.
Pkgsrc pushes fixes upstream for all breakage, including the 64bit long long time_t. We just weren't born on third base thinking we scored a triple.
I'm genuinely surprised at all the pro macbook comments here. I'm typing on one right now ... with an ethernet cable, because the wifi is so spotty, while my other win 7 laptops are just fine. My MBP is great at everything except for the most important things: connecting to the internet, playing sound, waking up from being asleep.
Trick question in return: I'm selling a 256GB SSD. How many bytes am I legally required to deliver?

This is why there is a need for the two different prefixes. If I am selling a 256GiB SSD and you are selling a 256GB SSD, those are now differentiable on their face.
Is there a similar thing for dedicated hosting providers?
And if the person sitting next to you in the same organization doesn't do that, or any person doesn't do that, if they get compromised then their box could attack yours with a different kind of payload.
I meant "might be real" according to generic-you in that statement. Someone being wrong doesn't make information hazards in general disappear.
I've read through this article twice and I can't put my finger on it, but there is something about the "sample population" that is bothering me. No mention of where those sampled are from, no mention of profession, but an emphasis on a couple of online groups. This just seems like a poor sampling to make a study off of.

If you were to take a mix of millennial and older technologists in the bay area, you would likely find some interesting overlaps (probably way more in tune than the study is showing) that are completely different if you took a sampling of a general popular somewhere in middle america even if both groups were "active online".
Insects might be more economical, or at least eventually when their production is more mainstream. But food is relatively cheap today anyway; what is expensive is rent/or mortgage. Food for a single, working person doesn't really make such a dent in the budget that they are forced to thin "damn, there has to be some alternative to this", compared to what they spend on their rent. So I don't think it's that much incentive to eat insects, from an economical perspective.
I've just added support for layering using '#>>>' as a layer separator to ASCIImage Super Studio (http://asciimage.org/ass):

https://twitter.com/mz2/status/579080005453398017

Your lock example from above is shown here:

https://twitter.com/hodapp/status/579082721491705856
Why would I want to give anyone even a hint of my profitable niche?

Many believe that ideas are worthless, but I don't. Especially on a business/startup forum. I really don't want the competition.
And they will copy UBC, uvm locks, WAPBL, device abstraction layer. Just diff their kernel source to 4.3BSD and compare how close they are still. Their kernel is still stuck in the 80s.
If you already made up your mind on why this is getting news coverage, why'd you post the question in the first place?
This is starting to sound like an incremental game.
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The website says "unopened" donations are accepted - what is this limited to? Does that mean if I have 12 malaria pills in an open container (for a 10 day regimen) I can't donate the leftover 2?
Incredible idea! I wish we could do this for food, as well.

And I don't mean food banks or soup kitchens. I mean the second McDonald's burger I was too stuffed to eat, or even the 8th leftover slice of pizza (as good as it is cold, somebody else could probably benefit from it more).

The logistics and legal challenges are mind-boggling, but there has to be a way.
Being the most secure OS, these days, is like being valedictorian of summer school.
The reality is as soon as you install a dynamic language behind a webserver all their memory tricks are for not.
They are still focusing on exploitation from 2002.
Generic drugs are fairly cheap.

It's more a matter of whether your country's regulator lets them in, and/or if you have enough retail competition to drive down prices close to their actual cost.
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It buys me happiness. I don't want to work for anyone besides myself and I now make enough money to do just this.
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"People hold them for the whole year just to use them here"

But does this mean that they will leave the vulnerability alive for a year, half-year (or whenever before the conference they found it) by not reporting it to the vendors till the conference? Because from the description it looks like it has to work on the latest versions of the browser (for example Chrome 42).
So leave. Flag the articles. If you comment on a shitty article with a shitty headline, the algorithm very probably gives it more weight and makes it more likely to show up on the front page.

Leaving comments like this is painfully lazy writing, if you can call it writing at all, and it has helped make Hacker News as fucking useless as you are.
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I was looking for information on https libraries. On google https will return a bunch of results for http, which is totally useless to me. I tried both +https and "https" and neither seem to affect the results. Is there some other trick I'm missing?
i thought the same thing, and recall thinking that about the taliban back when they destroyed what were then the largest buddha statues.

while it sickens me too, the main justification i can think of for it is that these artifacts represent the human story much more than any one person can. they are the collective achievement of thousands of years of progress and invention, and in seeing them destroyed we see our very history and future threatened more so than any one person's death can.

while i can't say i feel fully comfortable with a human life being worth less than a thing, this is one way of thinking about it.
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> In 1998 (at about the height of the dotcom bubble) a 1-bedroom apartment in my apartment building was renting for ~$500/month.

That is very low according to my memory. I was in Santa Clara in that time and my rent was over $1000/mo.

Now, I wasn't down in SF with all the cool kids. I do remember that SF in that time frame was right at a gentrification inflection where there were really expensive places right next to buildings that should have been condemned, so I'm willing to concede your point.

> Does it seem to you that tech worker salaries explain that 3x increase? Remember that as of last year, tech workers made up ~8% of SF's population.

Yes. That one is easy. Nobody wants to rent to the 92% combined with highly restricted supply.

Even back in the DotBomb days, there was a reason why people were commuting from the Fresno area. (152 would be bumper to bumper at 4:30AM in the morning!)
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IMHO, the bigger concern is the exploits that the wider community hasn't found yet. How many nasty tricks were out there in Stuxnet for years before anybody noticed? Just given the scale of the stuff that's been found, I'm inclined to think that trying to out-secure organizations with that kind of resources is a losing battle.

You're better of not being somebody anyone would invest that kind of effort to hack. Or at least making your traffic not identifiable as somebody that your opponent would want to hack.

Last I checked, holders of large amounts of Bitcoin tend to avoid letting their identity be associated with their accounts easily, and that's probably why. I bet somebody would be willing to risk a few $100k exploits to get a few $million worth of BTC.
I think that statement about less clue/relatively little clue is true about nearly every field of active research, including nuclear fusion power, hurricane path and strength prediction, understanding the brain, designing new drugs, and the life of pre-Clovis peoples in the Americas. In 20 years we'll look back and comment about how little we knew of the human genome, or how wildly wrong we were in predicting the effect of autonomous vehicles on daily life.

Also, "relatively little clue" can still enough to make useful decisions. Therefore I ignored it.

Without knowing which consequences, what am I supposed to say? I see no reason to think the Dutch are misspending their money in building up their sea defenses against likely sea level rise.
I find it even in the case when two or more founders were involved in starting some of these most successful companies only one of the founders took the initiative in the very early days.

The truth is it only takes one person to start something. And once you build something that has or can have tremendous value people will just join you naturally.

There is no such thing as the perfect moment to start something. You just have to do it and keep doing it and things will happen.
I have used similar tool called `git-pr-release` which create release PR from bunch of topic PRs. I added a function that create a Github release from release PRs.
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Does eBay own all of your code at any time, or just while working on the clock there?
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Are there actually reliably numbers/analyses on that? I heard the sentiment many times, but I have seen no proof of it.
Um, graphic files are also self-describing.

This kind of reeks of "If your only tool is a text editor, every problem looks like text".
There is a very widespread idea that if you can get rich doing something, that alone makes it worth doing. Lotta people see dollar signs, and equate that with having done something good.
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I wonder how it expects the api to be structured based on the ES6 literal query syntax.
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Whoops, misread "zero" as "deallocate". I meant that Box<> pointers are heap-allocated but deallocated when they go out of scope.
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In the case of San Francisco it is the combination of high salaries for tech workers and incredibly limited supply.
Correct. On the other hand, if this contest did not exist they may not be looking in the first place.