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Certainly; if understanding how people interpret "innovation" is the goal, a broad question is a good way to draw that interpretation out of some subset of 'people'.

I left the survey without answering because I realized it'd require me to make a broad binary generalization of some sort. Questions requiring generalizations like this make me uncomfortable, so I usually avoid answering them or dispute their usefulness. I came here to dispute its usefulness, but I saw a few others had already done so in their own ways, and thought my time might be better spent trying to give you context for this push-back, rather than echoing it.

Perhaps I can unpack how I mean "uncomfortable." If you ask me an innocent question like "what's your favorite movie/book/artist/album?", I have no good prepared answer to give you without vastly more thought than I care to put to the matter. I like a lot of things, but I don't maintain any sort of ranking, and I have no fast+meaningful way of comparing the relative merits of a good comedy with a good documentary, or a book of poems with a novel. I'm aware that most of the time this is just a throwaway question for socializing and I could probably grease the interaction with a little white lie--just pick something and move on. But I also know some people live and die by questions like this, and will mine my answer for what it says about me, whether we'll get along, etc. I could state this as my answer to the question, but the asker is either just making smalltalk and doesn't need a dissertation, or they actually think the question is meaningful and won't appreciate my disdain. The question makes me uncomfortable because it feels like a lose-lose. There's no honest way for me to "answer" it, and all of the other options are undesirable for social reasons.

In your case, I don't know what kind of parameters matter to you, and I lack a fast+meaningful heuristic for weighing whether a browser is innovative on the balance or deciding what definition/qualities of innovation I want to apply. I also realize you have some purpose for asking the question, and that using a cynical heuristic would undermine you.

HTH
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Sure, I understand why they have the interpreter rule in place. It just blocks legitimate apps and reduces competition with Apple's products, which is what blumkvist is asking for an example of.

And I wasn't talking specifically about their "no browser" or "no interpreter" guideline, just the sum total of requirements they have for iOS apps. The actual details of which exact requirement block useful things are not that important for purposes of addressing blumkvist's original question, which was how Apple's policies are more restrictive than those of Microsoft 20 years ago in ways that block objectively useful things.
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> I always wonder why the driver doesn't refuse.

As stated in the article, I think most people don't know it's within their rights to refuse. That and cops also intimidate you into consenting to a search.
Pusher? Aren't they moving all of their code to Haskell?
Go seems like a terrible choice for any programming problem that requires data modeling/manipulation. Basic structs, slices+maps, and loops are all you have.

Go is good at plenty of things, but building abstractions is not one of them.
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Be so easy to install and use that my mother can use it on her own. That's the big advantage that Dropbox had and still has over something like WebDAV.
Yes, and I remember how a lot of .Net people moved from .Net to ruby because of the type system. Now you are going to move to an inferior type system that doesn't even support generics and with worse type inference.
This could be automated. For example, both Ansible and Fabric allow you to enter your sudo password once (per run), and then it will enter it into the sudo prompt for you when executing remote commands. The same thing could be worked out for this (though I agree that it's a less flexible solution).
I like what you've said. Here's the connection I made between my technical knowledge and Foucault's school.

A C.S. professor of mine, when lecturing on semantics, i.e. the interpretation of texts, be they intended for computers or humans, remarked that "means" is a three-place relation:

R(a,b,c) === a means b to c

That is, a tuple is in the relation if the text "a" means "b" to an interpreter "c".

Typically, the "c" part is left out. But introducing it allows one to model subjectivity and interpretation, which is one way to think about what the poststructuralist intellectuals were getting at.
Misleading headline; Apple is only rejecting apps that explicitly mention Pebble in their app description and metadata. Nothing to do with the actual functionality. App developers can get their app linked to from any website that lists apps with Pebble compatibility.
Much of Foucault's work is different from projects that you would find in thinkers like Plato or Kant. Kant for example treats cognition as the product of certain universal categories that exist apriori. Chomsky is heavily influenced by this sort of thinking, and for both Kant and Chomsky the product of starting from those premises tends to be an essentialist view of human nature.

Rather than starting with axioms that lead to a sort of universal knowledge, Foucault did studies that could be considered more sociological in nature to show how relations of power affect the way that we experience ourselves and others, i.e., how it fashions our subjectivity. This is what he terms his "archaeological" method in articles like "What is Enlightenment?" http://foucault.info/documents/whatisenlightenment/foucault..... Examples of these studies include his works Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality.

At the very least, Foucault's studies show how some of the most significant ways in which we experience the world and ourselves are socially constructed, rather than essential. Identity then becomes political, rather than something that is distinctly our own. In some of his work, he also directly takes on thinkers like Kant in an attempt to show their work as historically situated rather than universal.
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More downvoted comments over the past couple months?
I've been using HN for over 5 years. Over the past month or two, I've started noticing that many more valid comments are grayed out from having negative scores.

I notice this because these comments are valid and useful, and clearly show some interest and effort on the part of the commenter. They're not rants or trolls, but contribute to the conversation. (Random example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9423442)

Considering the recent post by Sam Altman about avoiding negativity on HN [1], I'm curious to understand what shift happened in the community. Has there been a memo that I missed about keeping things fiercely on-topic? Have more people been given downvote power and we're seeing the random result?

[1] http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline

Edit: I see this post is getting more comments than upvotes, which will lead to it being flagged as "controversial" [2] and penalized :(

[2] see the always awesome Ken Shirriff's analysis: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html
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Not all apps do that, so it's not reliable.
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This is great! After I clicked through a few of those I switched to another open tab in my browser, where an actual startup website was displayed and for a few seconds I wasn't sure if it was another random one.
How does Apple demand the exclusive right to sell anything? There are plenty of Android apps that integrate with Pebble, and plenty of apps that are available across iOS, Android, even Windows, Blackberry, FireFox OS, Cyanogen, etc.

Apple can set rules for apps in their app store, just like Walmart can control the stock on their shelves. Walmart doesn't carry what you want? Go to Target. Apple doesn't allow an app you want? Go to Android.
except, it only generates one template.
I agree BUT it really is to the audience which you are presenting. It was a several year fight to stop pie charts at my work. It is almost like if it isn't a default in Excel people struggle to grasp other forms of visual representations.

Normally if I need to go beyond a line or bar I feel the need to present the raw numbers first and than put in whatever figure I created that I feel communicates the numbers in a way people will understand. Still it causes friction due to people's tendencies to just use pie, bar and line. Everything else has a certain unknown magic to certain people and they feel like someone is trying to nuance something away.
as soon as i saw the redirect seizure my browser was enduring i thought i'd never get out. somehow, one click of my back button brings me back to HN... (Chrome).
Thanks! We will see how it works out over the next year. So far the downloads have been coming in HOT!
I'm a big fan of right clicking on the request in the Chrome developer console and selecting "Copy as cURL". Obviously only works if you're doing browser stuff, but super helpful nonetheless.
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Honestly (and I'm assuming you live in the US, and that things work pretty much the same everywhere) it's a lot less complicated than you think it is and the agent does a lot less than you think they might. At both of my closings (buying and selling) with an agent, their only real concern was getting their commission check.

You can get a boilerplate "offer to purchase" contract online. You make an offer, and make it contingent on an inspection and an approval of financing (even if you're preapproved, it's good to have this in there just in case something doesn't work out, e.g. a significant problem with the appraised value).

Assuming you are taking out a mortgage, the lender will make sure everything is legal (they don't want to lose their collateral) and it's all very standardized anyway. If you are still nervous, hire a real-estate attorney to help with the offer and closing. That will still likely be far cheaper than paying a commission to an agent.
I have a copy of this (Peter Langston's Wander C source code) from a 1980 distribution.

I don't think it was ever "lost", it just became gradually more obscure over time, as most things do.

Edit: Looking closer, I see that Langston's 1980 distribution also included Empire (PDP11 object files, not source! -- infamously), "Fast Food" (with C source), and "Star_Drek" -- object files again)
Those stories and policies is for using copyrighted material without permission or using trademarks without authorisation, totally different thing from not able to use trademarked names.
> It punched down to a lower level of thought: the idea that our discourse and our notions of truth are themselves constituted and shaped by our society and circumstances.

I know nothing about Foucault, but considering the praise he's getting on this thread, there must be a heck of a lot more to it than this, right?
Yes, the site is very basic, it's just an "Hello world" experiment in AngularJS. Though I was thinking someone could find it useful and I put it online. If the interest grows I'll probably add more features and integrations.
I dislike those tight-knit exclusive social groups that do not welcome new members. They are cliques more than anything. One true friend is better than a group of close-minded people who consider you one of them.

Living a nomadic life or in big cities does not prevent you from making deep connection and maintain relationships with others. It just requires you to have the ability to love others, and higher skills at forming long-lasting friendships. It's can be harder than if you were living in a small village, but definitely possible.
Traditionally access to the data has been sold; making it public loses that income.
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I hate to do this, but I did the same thing several month ago. www.launchnik.com
It's also over 11 years old! Just guessing the industry and tech built around recycling has changed a bit.
I think that won't exist "coders" or "programmers" or "developers" anymore. From the core, machine will be programmable by natural language.
The basic rules for "talking to machines" will be teach in schools as a subset of the regular language learning.

As today there are no more monastic scribes, there won't be coders anymore. "Writing code", ie, talking to machines will be easy enough for universal reach.
I get that. Its just quote stuffing still exists, at least according to nanex. Wouldn't that be spoofing too?

Also this guy seemed to do this from his small house, on his own in Hounslow without any significant infrastructure, with terrible cross atlantic latency. It just seems so wrong that hes charged yet anything engaging in quote stuffing is let go.

He uses a @hotmail email address. It's just so extreme how he seems out of place. Somehow he had the resources to crash the market, or even cause a small portion of the damage in huge, liquid markets? The S&P EMini is probably near the top 5 most liquid instruments on earth.
This is funny because it demonstrates a truly child-like understanding of genetics and the reproductive process, as well as expressing some sort of freudian longing to be a woman perhaps? Why not say something equally dumb, "Men are penis-havers in a way women can never be."
Disclosure: I work at Google and was a co-founder of the Kubernetes project.

I think your observations are interesting. From my (somewhat biased) viewpoint I don't think we will enter into a 'post cloud' world. There are very real efficiency gains from running at public cloud provider scale, and the economics you see right now are not what I would consider 'steady state'. Beyond that the systems we are introducing with Kubernetes are focused on offering high levels of dynamism. They will ultimately fit your workload precisely to the amount of compute infrastructure you need, hopefully saving you quite a lot of money vs provisioning for peak. It will make a lot of sense to lease the amount of 'logical infrastructure' you need vs provisioning static physical infrastructure.

There are however legitimate advantages to our customers in being able to pick their providers and change providers as their needs change. We see the move to high levels of portability as a great way to keep ourselves and other providers honest.

-- craig
I've noticed a shift to where people downvote if they don't agree with a comment instead of using at it was intended to downvote bad comments.

I wonder if comment downvoting needs further restrictions; I'm tired of having to make "I don't know why parent is getting downvoted" type comments to get people to reconsider downvoting.
At various times, PPC was indeed faster than Intel's finest, either outright or in certain niches (particularly SIMD).

> Also Apple knew the truth since they were always running an x86 OS X for 5 years and knew the numbers and just were fine spreading "Apple Truths."

Consider what would have happened if the Intel switch had happened two years earlier. Take the iBook (then, AFAIK, Apple's best-selling product). They could have gone to Pentium M (the P3-based one), which was at best in the same speed range as the G4s used in Apple laptops, and used somewhat more power, resulting in diminished battery life. Or they could have gone to Pentium 4-M (the P4-based one), which would have been somewhat faster, and used vastly more power, resulting in massively diminished battery life.

Apple also at the time had the not unreasonable expectation that IBM would produce faster PPC970s, and mobile-suitable PPC970s, as was in their roadmap.

The Intel switch happened because it made sense at the time; the Core Duo laptops resulted in better performance vs the G4 and only a modest battery life it, while the high-end desktop waited for the Core 2 Duo Xeons, which resulted in better performance vs the G5. It would not, however, have made sense much earlier.

Obviously, they had MacOS 10 running on x86; NeXTStep did, after all, and it'd never be wise to close off options. I mean, _Windows_ supported PPC, Alpha and MIPS for a long time.
But-but-but this contradicts The Narrative! What about my wage gap! My patriarchy! My misogyny! We have to elect a woman in 2016! Say, do you know of a female whose candidacy for the presidential election has been highly anticipated?
Makes perfect sense. An engineering team full of sweaty dudes would definitely favor a qualified girl over an equally qualified guy.

Men should start some sort of movement to fight this inequality and be excessively loud about it.
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There's an option for opting out, without hindering the geolocation.
> Also C#'s statement-oriented nature just makes things ugly. Stuff like: [code]

I am not following what is bad about the example. Could you reproduce that same code in F# or whatever you're saying is better. It might help explain what you're getting at.
"Public domain" is a legal status.

A public domain dedication is a statement intended to create that legal status, but may in legal effect be actually a form of gratuitous license and/or promise not to sue.
A car salesman matched a competitors price, and rounded down two dollars. He told me he is offering me a better price than the competitor. I said, "it is true you are beating their price, but not in a way that matters to me".

Different languages have tradeoffs which matter to people.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9372355
IMHO the trade-off for creating anti-consumer walled gardens should be that you define the market in which you are subject for anti-trust cases.

If you have set yourself up as the sole gatekeeper for selling apps in your walled garden, you accept legal responsibility in that role to maintain a level playing field. If you don't like it, don't put up the walls and compete at being the best flower in open parkland.
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The man who tells you truth does not exist is asking you not to believe him. So don't.
Yes, I would urge all people with great curiosity, observation skills and desire to experiment and improve to take part in reading philosophy.

I only caution people to be careful about rockstar-ifying any single philosopher or group thereof. The more you read, the more you learn the shape of philosophy. While any one philosopher might have a lot to say, it's really only the summary of them that makes it truly useful.

It's easy to have your mind blown by one revealing thought from a paragraph or a book, like watching a one-line program execute. It's when all of the thoughts are put together and exercised that philosophy acts like a well-architectured object being designed in a well-architected program running on a well-architected operating system running on well-architected hardware which was developed using a well-architected program running on a ...

And as this article points out, various groups of political interest in reframing any single philosopher's viewpoint.
Collusion.
Retail price maintenance.
Dividing territories.
Exclusive dealing.

These are all anti-competitive behavior that will get one smacked by Federal regulators without being a monopoly.
This is not a change in Apple's policies, it's a fluke. The reviewer is interpreting the rule incorrectly.

The rule is intended to avoid descriptions which refer to future plans for alternative platform support, or different ports of the app available on other platforms. The rule does not intend to withhold information on platform support for this app instance, or ban said platform support.

For example:

- "Also find our app on the Pebble Watch Store" (violation)

- "This app syncs with Pebble Smartwatch" (not violation)

Other examples:

- "This feature is only available on our Windows Phone version of Office" (violation)

- "We're moving to the Google Play store for Android" (violation)

- "This app allows you to share files on all popular mobile platforms" (not violation)

- "Tap together your iPhone to another iPhone, Android phone or WM phone to share contact info" (not violation)

My guess is Apple will be reversing decision on that rejection soon.
This is a bit off-topic, but I'm not happy about the simplistic and demagogic message of throwing a line separating indians and spanish and just stating that "The fighting started 500 years ago" and that "the arrival of Spanish colonists marked the beginning of a dark history". Oh really? Before Columbus they were all happy people in Eden? And all rulers have been oppresor spaniards for the last 500 years?

These are poor people, and there's not one only factor that keeps them poor. The reason for inequality is not based only on racism. It is not a clash of races. It's a little more subtle.

And further: it does not matter! You don't need to make this kind of points to raise awareness. Focusing on specific people, as they do immediately afterwards, is much more effective.

That said: this is great!
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I tire of these responses. Save it for your chans or even reddit I suppose.
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Honestly, I believe that it would be a waste.

You claim to have two years of experience. If you look at the course outline there is nothing you can't learn on your own. Sure, it is not specific, but the tangents you will take on your own will give you much more breadth about the subject.

The biggest advantage of the course is they trimmed the fat for you, and studying on your own might take you longer. If you are short on time, it might be useful.

The other aspect is the networking. That is always extremely hard to judge. Most of the time it is useless. However, if you are looking for someone whose profile fits with the type of person that would take this course, then you are more likely to get value out of this.

Professors are usually easy to reach for questions, and it is easy to find communities of people you can explore the subject with.

Save the bucks.

NB: Just my opinion. I did not take the course. I shortly considered to take it, but decided not to.