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Ask HN: How do you describe future of vehicles?
If you have vehicle for everyday drive, what addition you would like to see will be added in the future?

auto-pilot, some kind of notification system and etc,.
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Well at least we can agree that seatbelts should be mandatory for automakers to provide, rather than require people to wear them. I see your point.
If that were true, then how come home prices drop when interest rates rise? Are taxes somehow special?
>I only mention the general cost because - there's not that much margin in these things to achieve what you want. Nobody will spend $2300 on a Phantom if that additional $1000 is for upgrades to safety and ignorance factors.

Well, not that I agree with the need for what he says, but what you describe is easily solved:

People WOULD pay $2300 on a Phantom if the "upgrades to safety and ignorance factors" were compulsory and so every drone on the market had to bear that extra $1000 in its cost.
Then your requirements are in conflict with security. You cannot trust the network to do your encryption for you, and you can't trust a a computer you don't own to handle your private key.

You may want to reconsider either dedicating some sort of portable device to be your email that you carry with you, a multi-account system the separates private email from the the email you can access remotely, or resigning yourself and those communicate with to sending using only postcards (non-end-to-end-encrypted email).
Odd comment. Clients in my work consistently pay us to do 'What we think is best' because that's what they're paying us for. Sometimes we do production work, but more often than not we're directing and advising the client toward their goal, then creating the things that get them there. They don't know how to get there, we do. But probably we're in different industries.
Hah! That's fantastic, I'm tempted to play around with it just for the C64 inspired editor. Brings back memories of copying game code out of magazines into that blue on blue screen.
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What I don't understand is why bother owning the hardware these days, other than personal taste? Surely the reproduction of an ancient hardware drum sequencer in today's software should be perfect.

I'm not criticising your preference for using hardware, that's your call. Some people still like to use vinyl, and I guess that's pretty cool. And some people still like to use hardware synths. And so on... but at the end of the day, unless you're doing something on the hardware that is impossible to do with software (e.g. some kinds of scratching could be argued to be impossible to reproduce exactly without vinyls and turntables), it seems to me the only reason to use a hardware 808 is basically personal preference.

Happy to be explained why I'm wrong though. Are there any quantifiable differences between a physical 808 and a software one?
The officer never would have had probable cause for a warrant for this individuals information though, since he didn't even work at the sites that had the missing/tampered drugs.
Not being kind also blinds you to other people's achievements.
Thank you for your very informative comment!
fsniper made a good recommendation with "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

I'd also put in a recommendation for a book I stumbled upon when searching through Hacker News called "Difficult Conversations."

http://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-M...

I got the same feeling from reading the book as the original recommender ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7762266 ): reading the book made me feel instantly better at being able to communicate when having difficult or tense conversations. I can't recommend it enough.
So you are two persons, your work person and your home person. Sounds very exhausting to me. "C'est le ton qui fait la musique". I'm sorry for you that you have to deal with a lot of shit but 4 hours of yoga (this is exaggerated of course) is not so much if you have an 8 hours sleep, 8 hours work, 8 hours relax schedule. It seems to me you need to change some things in your life. And then you can also be a nice person.

A soccer mom is a very valuable person who also does work, work that kids appreciate a lot, don't be so belittling. If you are jealous of her, try to find a partner with a good career that allows you to be a soccer dad.
Similar discussion about a week ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9505672

My answer about Adderall versus other stimulants is fitting here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9506501

I was on Adderall for quite sometime. Tried Concerta. The crash, the burn, the jitters, the shakes, the nervousness... not worth it.

My experience with Vyvanse has been 1000x that of Adderall. Of course, to each their own, but I'm not alone in finding it more pleasant.
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> Being kind is fundamentally about taking responsibility for your impact on the people around you.

Totally agree, especially in regard to when people share their projects on HN. The HN community moderation always seemed to be based on a very superficial rules - don't swear, don't mention banned keywords X Y or Z. Never have they seemed to seriously consider the impact that words have on other people, instead of just the words themselves.
That's as dishonest as btsyncs statement, in it's own way.

Because it's closed source, we don't /know/ how secure btsync is. However, we do know that microsoft, google and dropbox will just hand your shit over if the US government asks.

Something is better than nothing. The only open source competitors in this space are owncloud, who /still/ won't let me upload to both a work and person cloud at the same time, and syncthing, which I have high hopes for but which currently has a workflow so bad I think I'd rather just use a thumb drive.

I've stuck with btsync 1.3.94, the version with the beautiful workflow, just before it went off the rails. It solves my need to avoid google/facebook etc. /Maybe/ it doesn't protect me from the US government, but that's still better than dropbox.

I think bleep's gonna struggle, because it requires me to get /other/ people to buy into my disquiet, which turns out to be really hard if my experiments with XMPP over skype tell me anything.

You know what I might actually pay for? A gateway to facebook/gtalk/skype. I'd be willing to pay $5 per month for a bleep-to-everything gateway, either from bittorrent or someone else. Half of bleeps value is simply in my not needing another account (e: I could say the same about btsync).
Thank you for pointing this one out in particular. I've noticed myself falling into this trap at times, which is sad because it's something I know is frustrating when I hear it from others.

The pattern in the examples you mentioned is the desire, conscious or not, to twist the knife a little and squeeze out a "sorry" from the other person. The desire for someone else to realize an error they've made turns into a desire for guilt, a general "think better next time" that is just specific enough to hurt but vague enough to not actually be helpful. It's like training an animal with a blunt instrument and expecting that to get results anytime fast.
intelligent.design is taken already..
The question here is not "Did Eich's presence cause an exclusionary atmosphere at Mozilla?", which is what you appear to be arguing. As you mention, the answer is no.

The question is actually "Is it appropriate for someone who takes active steps to treat some people as undeserving of basic rights[1] to take the ultimate leadership role in a diversity focused company?"

That answer is no.

Going back to your "negotiation" statement - he was given that option! The pichforks didn't truly come out until the number of his non-answers on the issue. Someone saying "we support diversity" doesn't sound right when that can be instantly rebutted with "Then why is your company run by someone who donated against LGBTs?"

It looks bad for Mozilla, and there's no good answer for that question - really!

Eich had three valid options from that point on:

* He could repudiate the donation and this would have evaporated overnight. Those views were apparently important enough to him to prevent such an option.

* He could not do so and stay, and Mozilla would suffer due to the volume of people who stated they would not work for or with someone who did what he did.

Two things to keep in mind: People are/were angry at Eich for his actions, not his thoughts. His thoughts are not conclusively knowable, his actions are.

Also remember that Prop 8 passed, and it took another 6 years for equal marriage rights to clear in California as a result - were I living in California during that time, I'd have felt pretty scandalized too, moreso if I were actually working for Mozilla at the time.

* He could not do so and move on. This was the chosen option.

[1]: http://www.afer.org/blog/14-supreme-court-cases-marriage-is-...
Instavest (YC W15) is hiring its first engineer
Instavest is a team of 3 building a next-gen financial investing platform that powers over $100,000 of transaction volume a week (rapidly growing).

We are looking to make our first engineering hire to help make our platform more robust, add new asset classes and enhance our product. This is an heavy-equity weighted role.

Our mission is to empower the individual investor by 1/helping individuals find the best investments and 2/reward retail investors for sharing their winning investments.

Warren Buffett once said:

“If I was running $1 million today, or $10 million for that matter, I’d be fully invested. Anyone who says that size does not hurt investment performance is selling. The highest rates of return I’ve ever achieved were in the 1950s. I killed the Dow. You ought to see the numbers. But I was investing peanuts then. It’s a huge structural advantage not to have a lot of money. I think I could make you 50% a year on $1 million. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.”

Sourcing stock market investment ideas online is a risky and usually non-rewarding process because you can't be sure the author backed the idea with their own money, and even if they did, you're not sure when they bought and when they'll sell.

Instavest solves this by putting real dollars behind ideas, and providing timing information on each investment. We incentivize investment leaders by paying them for their performance - we're bringing carried interest to the retail investor.

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That would be closer to the point I was trying to make, that it is an unintentional blame shift. I don't think Volvo as a company knows that it is doing it, but it creates a situation where people unsympathetic to cyclists can point to an accident and not only say "well he shoulda worn a helmet" (if that situation applies), but can now add "well he shoulda sprayed on the hi-visibility paint" to their list of reasons to say that it is the cyclist's fault.
Just to add to this discussion, some quasi-related links with regard to visual presentation of code:

• Experiments in Code Typography (McDirmid, Microsoft) http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/liveprogramming...

• Typography of Code (MAX 2010): https://youtu.be/mG0lyGekGDs (alternate recording: https://youtu.be/r2JePjrDggE)

• Elastic tabstops: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

Of course, there's also numerous projects with more significant visual representation, like Blockly, Scratch, flow programming, etc. And, of course, real-time feedback/simulation is another arena of usefulness e.g, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/managedti..., Bret Victor's works, etc. But, I digress.
Great, no problem. Your next bike is going to cost $9,500.00. Will that be cash, credit, or PayPal?
I will comment that, had you actually posted a link to the HN comment thread on your TS influencing ES6 development, you'd have noticed there are several comments as to how, no, they are not. In fact, they've diverged quite a bit from ES6, and now have work to realign TS with ES6's newer drafts.

I also really don't understand how a 1994 memo or the Microsoft Network plan are relevant. Those are both pre-lawsuit, how are they relevant today?
The GP made an assessment ("hardware issues are enough to make me avoid the company like the plague") of the entire Lenovo brand, which includes the Thinkpad brand.
Never assume your wage is safe
List of Unsolved Scientific Problems with Large Monetary Prizes
Firefox absolutely does that for you [1]. You can even run your own sync server if you are into that sort of thing [2]. Works on all desktop platforms and mobile platforms that firefox runs on.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/sync/

[2] https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html
That's interesting. Way back when I was a ski racing kid (about 14) we once did a speed test where we closed off 400m of one of the children's slopes and put a photocell at the bottom, and we would hit 90+ km/h on that thing. Mind you, this was in racing gear with racing skis, but that was a flat-ass slope. The fastest we ever clocked in a race was around 120, when I was 18, in the worldcup downhill course in Åre.
> Most peoples' reactions to things are arbitrary at best

"Reaction I do not understand" is not the same thing as "reaction that is arbitrary."

Frequently a decision that appears to make no sense starts to do so when you put yourself in the shoes of the person who made it. Their experiences in life have been different than yours (guaranteed!), so there will be no shortage of cases where you look at something and think "A" while that other person looks at the same thing and thinks "B." But that doesn't make either of you arbitrary; you both have reasons for your interpretation, they're just different.

> People at work, retail staff, etc should be prepared to not have their emotions constantly validated and deal with disagreement and other things that are unpleasant

But that was the whole point of the article: it's possible to disagree with others in a way that is still respectful. Keeping that bit of respect in what you say is really all it takes. You don't have to agree with everything they say or spend all day pumping sunshine up their skirts; you just have to have enough respect for them to hold back from turning objection into insult. It's stopping at "I disagree with you" and not taking the extra step to "and therefore you are a bad person."

> Its easy for celebrity millionaire Kurt Vonnegut to write about compassion and be quoted by tumblerinas

Let's say I read your comment and, instead of taking the time to try and address your points directly and individually, I just fired back something along the lines of "you're quite a sperglord."

Would you be comfortable with that response? Would it feel pleasant, or even neutral? Or would it feel like a personal attack -- something that would make you feel an impulse to lash out back at me?

It would feel like an attack, of course. Why? Because I'm not dealing with you as an individual. I'm just picking you up and stuffing you into a bucket with a label on it. It would be dismissive, and people don't like being dismissed.

Now ask yourself: having said all that, can you imagine someone else feeling the same way -- and reacting the same way, as if you had attacked them -- when you dismiss them as a "tumblerina"?
Lower in math, not reading, so it goes.
>seatbelts should be mandatory for automakers to provide

Absolutely. Such an inexpensive piece of safety equipment.
Yes, that is what I am trying to say. Karunamon (above/below[1]) said it better than I did. The WSJ deserves to be compensated for their work if they ask to be (in other words, consumers should not "steal" the content), but my questions is whether they have actually asked for the payment.

In my opinion, this tactic is no different than offering it for free but then demanding payment anyway.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9534392
Re #2: TextSecure has a web/chrome extension version in development:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser
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Aside from everything else (NOT that I am happy with the context), I am simply disgusted that Adobe is being "rewarded" with a role in this.

Not just their ongoing security fiasco, but also having had to deal with their tremendously incompetent technical support, have left me permanently opposed to their company.

Yes, the design allows for an arbitrary party -- I guess, although ties to / use of TPM and whatever mean that, in practice, there will be a much smaller field of... "mainstream" providers. In practice, though, meet the new evil, same as the old evil.
"That DVD you bought? The one from a different region? It won't play and the reason it won't play is because of DRM. You think you can just put it in your laptop and use VLC, but you forget that your laptop DVD drive is probably region-locked in firmware, so although yes VLC ignores region coding the drive doesn't, and will enforce the region coding and refuse to play your DVD. I can fix it for you. Here's the list of stuff we need to do:

1) Find out the drive name and model number.
2) Find and download a firmware file for that drive.
3) Patch the firmware to turn it either into RPC1 or into auto-restarting RPC2.
4) Flash the file.
5) Carefully never ever use certain software and always cancel out of certain dialog boxes.

All this just because rights-holders want to stop you buying a new DVD from outside your region."
Religious people already have to deal with immense cognitive dissonance in a large number of contexts. Accommodating the discovery of extraterrestrial life won't be that difficult.
I haven't used AdBlock for a year or so now, but I'm fairly certain sure his model was donationware. Did something change recently?
Check out this class https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-har.... It might be below your skill level, but if it's not go through it. It's very interactive and you'll enjoy learning the course material.
For anyone interested in the topic, here is an article written with dedication about it http://gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/CRT_S...
> nobody can silo their beliefs

So we need to stop discrimination before it happens? How do you feel about implementing some pre-crime measures nation-wide? As soon as he started advocating some anti-gay hiring policies, or rejecting pull requests from transvestites, then the consequences would've made sense to me.

Though that's an idealist view, in reality letting him stay would've been interpreted as an endorsment by all the people making a huge fuss about it, in my ideal world no one would've cared to begin with.

Instead of adding to their CPG you should've actually read the parts that don't agree with your view

> Some Mozillians may identify with activities or organizations that do not support the same inclusion and diversity standards as Mozilla

Diversity and inclusion should mean including people who don't agree with diversity and inclusion.
I really think they need to focus on removing that awful latency. You can even see it in the video. Microsoft did a study showing just how important it is to get that number down below 10ms.

http://phys.org/news/2012-03-microsoft-finger-1ms-touchscree...
I did a lightning talk a while back called "7 Habits of Highly Effective DevOps", adapting the habits and the organization of them to doing DevOps well.
The 808 bass drum dominates UK dance music as an pitched, melodic sound. Distort it through a cheap desk, sample it with a couple of layers and you're away. Drum and bass and dubstep are both built on a foundation of 808s, even if you cant necessarily pick them out.

Here's a video tutorial of some producers walking you through this technique, with a real 808 and an EMU 6400 ultra sampler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yheX4yrOOQI

Here's Truly One by Origin Unknown, which uses two 808 samples a semitone apart so that they beat against each other, another of the many many 808 techniques:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNNg6UYoDTI

(What a record. Feel the rush!)
> There are also apps that auto like everyone. This sort of defeats the purpose of the app.

It's what a lot of people do anyway, though. Why not automate an action if it's the action people want? (Farming/grinding bots in MMOs, for example.) If the service doesn't like it, they can always put a stop to it by changing the incentive structure of their "game."
*gets :p
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"I still have little use for useless people"

The trouble with this is that you could be wrong. They might be "useless" to you but not the rest of the world.
1) Sounds produced by analog equipment cannot be reproduced exactly in software. You can get very close but so far nobody has gotten it 100% right.

2) The physical controls on hardware make the process of creating music more tactile / intuitive / emotional. It's faster to reach and turn a knob than to click on the knob and drag it -- maybe only by a little but when you do that thousands of times it adds up.

3) The constraints of using hardware can be a useful artistic limitation, that actually increases creative output.
An accessory let you 3d print in multi-color / multi-material
> It's hard to come up with a system of assessing property values that doesn't have flaws.

You use square footage of livable area and land. The rates for each (which are different) are the average sale price of all houses in the neighborhood per square foot.

The only hard part is determining neighborhoods. Sure some houses are extra fancy and worth more, but the difference is not large enough to worry about since fancy houses also tend to be larger.
The Software Behind Frank Gehry’s Geometrically Complex Architecture
I'm not sure where you're seeing all this controversy, nor do I quite understand why you're so upset about it. Nevertheless, why don't we just judge HTML in terms of its intended purpose? Before CSS and Javascript and the separation of semantics, presentation and behavior I might actually have agreed with you. At this stage, though, I'd venture that HTML is designed for the purpose of describing the semantic notions of a document rather than computation. Since you ask us to be humble I'll oblige and concede that not all programming languages have to be turing complete (there are useful languages that aren't). But surely it has to be designed with computation as a purpose? Even CSS fullfills that criteria to a higher degree. If not, you might as well argue that any arbitrary language at any level in Chomskys hierarchy constitutes a programming language. It's been a while since I read SICP but I really don't think this is what Abelson and Sussman had in mind.
The Psychology of the Self-Appointed Genius